New York, September 3 (IANS) As global ice dams begin to weaken due to warming temperatures, a new study suggests that prior attempts to evaluate the mass of the huge floating ice shelves that line the Antarcti

Washington, September 3 (IANS) As the new school year has begun, public schools across the US face a common problem -- rising absence rate, which was worsened by the pandemic .Some schools have to get creative

Los Angeles, September 2 (IANS) At least 385 people have been missing in the wildfires in the Hawaii island of Maui in the US, authorities said on Friday.The figure is down from 388 on the first list of missing

Seoul, September 2 (IANS) South Korea's National Security Council (NSC) on Saturday held an emergency meeting after North Korea fired several cruise missiles toward the Yellow Sea, according to a presidential o

Seoul, September 2 (IANS) An estimated 2,00,000 teachers from around the country gathered in Seoul on Saturday to protest the recent deaths of young teachers and to call for the better protection of their right

New York, September 2 (IANS) Rates of severe Covid disease may be staying at relatively low levels in the US, but experts agree that there are probably more infections than the current surveillance systems can

London, September 2 (IANS) Elon Musk-run X (formerly Twitter) went down for hours for thousands of users after Sudan-based hackers hit the platform in a bid to put pressure on Musk into launching his cheaper in

Washington, September 1 (IANS) The nationwide Covid hospitalisations in the US have increased by nearly 19 per cent in a single week and deaths by more than 21 per cent, as the country goes through a late-summe

Melbourne, September 1 (IANS) The Australian government has announced the closure of the Pandemic Event visa beginning February 2024 -- a move that could see a sizable number of international students and tempo

Islamabad, August 31 (IANS) Protests in Pakistan continue to gain momentum with each passing day as hundreds of thousands of locals burn their electricity bills, rejecting the imposed high tariffs and taxes.Whi

Libreville, August 30 (IANS): Just hours after Gabon's electoral commission announced that President Ali Bongo Ondimba had secured a third term in office after winning the August 26 election, the Central Africa

Manila, August 30 (IANS): Super typhoon Saola has triggered floods and landslides in seven regions of the Philippines, affecting nearly 200,000 people, the government said on Wednesday.The National Disaster Ris

United Nations, August 30 (IANS): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that a nuclear test ban is a fundamental step toward a world free of nuclear weapons."A legally binding prohibition on nuclear te

Canberra, August 30 (IANS): Australians will vote in a historic referendum on October 14 to decide whether to enact an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Wednesday.Anno

New Delhi, August 30 (IANS): Chinese forces are learnt to have ramped up construction of reinforced bunkers and underground tunnels in Aksai Chin, according to reports citing data from satellite imagery.As per

Ottawa, August 30 (IANS): A First Nation has found 79 suspected child grave sites and 14 potential infant grave sites at a former residential school in Saskatchewan, Canada, local media reported."This is not a

Kiev. August 28 (IANS) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the coalition aiding Kiev's fight against Moscow would not support the war-torn nation if it were to move the hostilities into Russian

Moscow, August 28 (IANS) Russia's Investigative Committee confirmed that the Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash in the Tver region near Moscow. The identities of all 10 people killed in

Dhaka, August 28 (IANS) Bangladesh is preparing to start safe and voluntary repatriation of Rohingya refugees to their homeland Myanmar later this year, initially with around 1,000 people, a senior government o

Khartoum, August 27 (IANS) The Sudanese Foreign Ministry has called on the US government to correct its position towards the current Sudanese crisis and not to equate the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) with the &q