UNITED NATIONS, NOVEMBER 19 (IANS): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for a major and rapid change in the fight against climate disruption.
"Major and rapid change is exactly what we need
GAZA, November 19 (Reuters): For Naela Abu Jibba, a mother of five who lives and works in the Gaza Strip, taking the road less travelled has become a way of life.
The first woman taxi driver in the Isla
SYDNEY, November 19 (Reuters): Australian special forces allegedly killed 39 unarmed prisoners and civilians in Afghanistan, with senior commandos reportedly forcing junior soldiers to kill defenceless cap
KABUL, November 19 (Reuters): Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in Kabul on Thursday to meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, at a time when peace negotiations between the Afghan governme
OTTAWA, November 19 (Reuters): Canada on Wednesday identified state-sponsored programs in China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as major cyber crime threats for the first time, and said it feared foreign act
KUALA LUMPUR/NAIROBI, November 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): As COVID-19 forces businesses worldwide to reinvent themselves, social entrepreneurs are getting creative to help communities hit hard by the
GENEVA, November 19 (Reuters): Fresh lockdowns in Europe are avoidable, including through near-universal mask-wearing, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe office said on Thursday.
Han
BANGKOK, November 19 (Reuters): Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha threatened on Thursday to use all laws possible against protesters, as demonstrations escalate for his removal and for reforms to curb
TEGUCIGALPA, November 19 (Reuters): Storm Iota unleashed devastating flooding in areas already waterlogged with rain on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of thousands of people across Central America to fl
BANGKOK, November 19 (Reuters): In the midst of thousands of Thai anti-government protesters, one man made his own statement - with barbecued pork.
Joined by onlookers, he made an impromptu picnic on We
LONDON, November 19 (Reuters): Results of late-stage trials of University of Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine candidate should definitely be known by Christmas, the chief investigator on the study said on Thu
Washington, November 19 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 56 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.34 million, according to the Johns Hopkins Universit
(Reuters): President Donald Trump's election campaign on Wednesday asked a judge to declare him the winner in Pennsylvania, saying the state's Republican-controlled legislature should select the el
LONDON, November 19 (Reuters): Britain's Prince William has welcomed a new investigation into how the BBC secured a famous 1995 interview with his mother Princess Diana after accusations that she had b
NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY, November 18 (Reuters): A federal judge on Wednesday granted a U.S. government request to drop drug charges against former Mexican Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos, a move Mexico s
JERUSALEM/AMMAN, November 18 (Reuters): Israel launched air raids against what it called a wide range of Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria on Wednesday, sending a signal that it will pursue its policy of
COPENHAGEN, November 18 (Reuters): A Danish study released on Wednesday found face masks provide the wearer with only limited protection against COVID-19 infection, but said this should not be used to argu
WASHINGTON, November 18 (Reuters): The United States on Wednesday imposed sweeping new sanctions targeting Iran, blacklisting a foundation controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and takin
LONDON, November 18 (Reuters): The BBC said on Wednesday it had appointed a former senior judge to head an inquiry into how the broadcaster secured a famous 1995 interview with the late Princess Diana, aft
WASHINGTON, November 18 (Reuters): U.S. President Donald Trump's bid to overturn his election defeat faces a deadline in Wisconsin on Wednesday, where his campaign has to decide whether to pay $7.