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WHO renames monkeypox as "mpox" to avoid stigma
Geneva (Switzerland), November 29: To avoid racist stereotypes and stigmatization, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended on Monday that the...
UN recommends Great Barrier Reef be listed as...
Canberra (Australia), November 29: A landmark United Nations (UN) report has recommended Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef be added to...
Intl' students contribute 5 bln euros a year...
Paris (France), November 29: International students contribute around 5 billion euros (5.2 billion U.S. dollars) a year to the French...
New COVID-19 subvariants account for over half new...
Los Angeles (US), November 29: New Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 accounted for over half of new COVID-19 cases in...
Roundup: U.S. weekly flu hospitalizations hit record high...
Los Angeles (US), November 29: Over 11,200 patients in the United States were hospitalized with flu in the latest week,...
Amazon Web Services to return more water than...
San Francisco (US), November 29: Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon, on Monday announced it will be water...
Japan's PM seeks to up defense budget to...
Tokyo (Japan), November 29: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday required cabinet ministers to increase Japan's defense budget to...
Some 460,000 people in Cambodia fall below poverty...
Phnom Penh (Cambodia), November 28: Some 460,000 people in Cambodia have fallen below poverty income thresholds since the onset of...
Australia lowers terrorism threat level
Canberra (Australia), November 28: Australia's terrorism threat level has been downgraded for the first time in almost a decade.
S. Korea seeks to change dividend-linked rules to...
Seoul (South Korea), November 28: South Korea will push to change regulations in a way that would allow investors to...
S. Korea's new COVID-19 cases below 30,000 amid...
Seoul (South Korea), November 28: South Korea's new COVID-19 cases fell below 30,000 on Monday due to fewer tests over...
Yoon's approval rating rises to 36.4 percent: Realmeter
Seoul (South Korea), November 28: President Yoon Suk-yeol's approval rating rose to 36.4 percent, surpassing the mid-30 percent range for...
S. Korea to reduce bond issuance of state-run...
Seoul (South Korea), November 28: South Korea plans to reduce the issuance of bonds by state-run companies, the finance ministry...
UNICEF hands over child-friendly classrooms to Bangladesh
Dhaka (Bangladesh), November 28: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has handed over 110 classrooms for 22 schools to the...
Israel launches national plan to preserve, develop ecological...
Jerusalem (Israel), November 28: Israel's Ministry of Environmental Protection announced on Sunday a national plan to preserve and develop ecological...
Cotopaxi volcano in Ecuador registers new activity with...
Quito (Ecuador), November 28: Gas and water vapor emissions, a low level of ash and an increase in seismic activity...
Israel's Netanyahu signs coalition deal with 2nd far-right...
Jerusalem (Israel), November 28: Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party and far-right Noam party signed a coalition deal on...
Malaysia reports 2,022 new COVID-19 infections, 4 more...
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), November 28: Malaysia reported 2,022 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Sunday, bringing the national total to...
Iranian parliament approves bill for Iran's accession to...
Tehran (Iran), November 28: The Iranian parliament on Sunday approved a bill for Iran's membership to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization...
Swedes may face "even worse" energy situation next...
Stockholm (Sweden), November 28: The energy situation will be even worse next winter in Sweden, an expert from the Swedish...
Israeli ministerial coalition to abandon bilateral agreements: Palestinian...
Ramallah (Palestine), November 28: The Israeli ministerial coalition has signed a deal to abandon bilateral peace agreements signed under international...
Palestinian PM accuses Israel of seizing two-thirds of...
Ramallah (Palestine), November 28: Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye on Sunday accused Israel of seizing two-thirds of the Palestinian groundwater...
Iran's top leader says negotiation won't solve problems...
Tehran [Iran], November 27: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that the country's problems with the United...
Bomb blast kills 5 soldiers in Yemen's oil-rich...
Aden [Yemen], November 27:At least five members of Yemen's government forces were killed Saturday in a bomb explosion in the...
Police seize batch of smuggled ammunition in SW...
Tehran [Iran], November 27: Iranian police seized a batch of smuggled ammunition in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province,...
Train service in Israel shut down due to...
Jerusalem [Israel], November 27: Israel's rail service halted on Saturday due to a nationwide train signaling failure, state-owned Israel Railways...
Russia reports 6,088 new COVID-19 cases
Moscow [Russia], November 27: Russia registered 6,088 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide tally to...