World

Final push for global pandemic treaty to begin...
Geneva [Switzerland], April 13: Negotiators are entering the final stretch in protracted efforts to forge a global pandemic treaty aimed...

Bomb explodes outside Greece's railway company's offices in...
Athens [Greece], April 12: A bomb exploded Friday night outside the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece's railway company that operates...

Rwanda's urban inflation rises by 6.5% year-on-year in...
Kigali [Rwanda], April 12: Rwanda's urban inflation rose sharply in March 2025, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increasing by...

Zambia launches construction of power transmission line to...
Lusaka [Zambia], April 12: Zambia on Friday launched the construction of a power transmission line connected to Tanzania as well...

Tanzanian opposition leader charged with treason
Dar es Salaam [Tanzania], April 12: Tanzania's opposition leader Tundu Lissu has been charged with treason and dissemination of false...

Security beefed up following unrest in NE Ghana
Accra [Ghana], April 12: Ghanaian police have beefed up security in several communities in the northeastern region following recent unrest...

UN calls for peaceful, transparent presidential election in...
Libreville [Gabon], April 12: Abdou Abarry, special representative of the UN Secretary-General for Central Africa and head of the United...

Namibia opens Africa's first green iron plant
Windhoek [Namibia], April 12: Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on Friday inaugurated Africa's first industrial-scale green iron plant, a facility that...

Zimbabwe-China tobacco expo to be held in Q3
Harare [Zimbabwe], April 12: Zimbabwe will hold the first Zimbabwe-China tobacco expo in the third quarter of this year to...

Roundup: UN agencies warn of worsening humanitarian catastrophe...
Khartoum [Sudan], April 12: Officials from United Nations (UN) agencies and international organizations on Friday warned about the scale of...

Tunisian students celebrate Chinese Language Day
Tunis [Tunisia], April 12: The Higher Institute of Languages of Tunis (ISLT) and the Confucius Institute at Carthage University held...

Nigeria to impose 15-USD daily fine on visa...
Nigeria [Abuja], April 12: Nigeria will implement a new policy that imposes a 15-U.S. dollar daily fine on travelers who...

Sexual violence against children rises alarmingly in eastern...
Washington DC [US], April 12: A child was reported raped on average every 30 minutes during intense January and February...

Column: Folly of "reciprocal tariffs": How America's trade...
Washington DC [US], April 12: In an era when global interdependence defines prosperity, the United States' recent embrace of "reciprocal...

Top U.S. bank leaders warn of risks from...
New York [US], April 12: Leaders of top U.S. banks Friday warned of risks and uncertainties from U.S. tariffs and...

U.S. judge allows Trump admin to deport Columbia...
Houston [Texas], April 12: A U.S. immigration judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil, a...

3 killed, 1 injured after small plane crashes...
Houston [Texas], April 12: A small plane crashed near Boca Raton Regional Airport in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida...

General Motors to initiate temporary layoffs in Canada
Ottawa [Canada], April 12: General Motors on Friday announced a temporary shutdown of one plant in Canada with hundreds of...

5.2-magnitude quake hits Papua New Guinea region: GFZ
New York [US], April 12: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Papua New Guinea region at 22:24:50 GMT...

Company fine doubled to $3m for workplace manslaughter
Washington DC [US], April 12: The fine handed down to the first company prosecuted under Victoria's workplace manslaughter laws has...

Pennsylvania man charged over threats to kill Trump,...
Harrisburg [Pennsylvania], April 12: A Pennsylvania man has been charged with making threats online to murder President Donald Trump and...

Prisoners released by Israel show signs of torture
Tel Aviv [Israel], April 11: Footage has shown 10 Palestinian prisoners released by Israel arriving at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in...

Kiev's closest allies mull post-war mission amid US...
Brussels [Belgium], April 11: Defence ministers from the "coalition of the willing" nations, who are some of Kiev's closest allies,...

US secures release of dual national jailed in...
Washington [US], April 11: Ksenia Karelina, a US-Russian dual national sentenced to 12 years in Russia for donating about $50...

Argentinians join general strike over president's austerity measures
Buenos Aires [Argentina], April 11: Workers went on strike in Argentina on Thursday in protest at the harsh austerity programme...

More than 300 deaths reported in Austria's mountains...
Vienna [Austria], April 11: A total of 309 people lost their lives in the Austrian Alps last year while taking...

European army cannot replace NATO, says German President...
Koblenz [Germany], April 11: A European army would not be a replacement for NATO, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on...