September2024

Super typhoon Yagi made landfall in China’s island province of Hainan on Friday, as officials were ready for what might be the most powerful storm to slam the nation’s southern coast in ten years. According to...

Following nearly two months of political impasse following snap polls, French President Emmanuel Macron chose Michel Barnier, the former Brexit negotiator for the European Union, as the country’s new prime minister on Thursday, the presidency announced....

Today, Md. Nahid Islam, the adviser on posts, telecommunications, and information technology, requested assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in order to bring the advantages of information and communication technology (ICT) down to the...

562,000 people have been impacted by severe flooding and strong windstorms in Yemen in recent weeks, according to a Thursday statement from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which is pleading for $13.3 million in donations...

After a shaky first few days in the world, baby elephant twins born last week on a logging camp in Myanmar are doing well, officials told AFP on Thursday. Last week, in the state-run Myanmar Timber...

The Canadian retail behemoth Alimentation Couche-Tard made a buyout offer for 7-Eleven, which the Japanese company announced on Friday it had turned down, claiming the offer “grossly undervalues” the business. The acquisition of Seven & i...

The Seoul military announced on Thursday that North Korea had launched more garbage-filled balloons southward, the most recent in a string of border bombardments that have prompted a tit-for-tat propaganda campaign. As reported by Seoul’s Joint...

Hamas called on the United States Thursday to “exert real pressure” on Israel to reach a Gaza ceasefire agreement as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there was no deal in the making. The two sides have...