Addis Ababa, April 27 (IANS) Primary and secondary schools in Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region have started registering students after a three-year hiatus.
Tigray Education Bureau on Wednesday discl
Khartoum, April 26 (IANS): Fighting in Sudan is quickly turning an already dire humanitarian crisis into a catastrophe, said UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Joyce Msuya.
What has been
Brasilia, April 26 (IANS): Illegal deforestation on indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon jumped 129 per cent between 2013 and 2021, a study released by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation revealed.
This ge
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS): A new book on Afghanistan's de facto rulers claimed that Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi had a detailed meeting with Pakistans former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qa
United Nations, April 26 (IANS): UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said that the current trajectory in the region is neither sustainable nor inevitable.
The holy month o
Washington, April 26 (IANS): US officials have said that the Islamic State (IS) terror group mastermind thought to have planned the devastating 2021 bombing at the Kabul airport has been killed by Afghanistan
Washington, April 25 (IANS) US President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday he is seeking a second term, with Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate once again.
"The question we are facing is whet
United Nations, April 25 (IANS) The security and humanitarian situation in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, has reached alarming levels, said a UN spokesman.
Between April 14 and 19, clashes between rival
Manila, April 25 (IANS) A bus carrying around 50 Filipinos has left the violence-hit Sudanese capital of Khartoum for the northern border with Egypt, a spokeswoman for the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in
Seoul, April 25 (IANS) North Korea vowed on Tuesday to strengthen its ties with Russia on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the first summit between the leaders of the two nations.
Vice Foreign Minis
United Nations, April 25 (IANS) While the population ages and its growth shrinks in the southern states of India, labour migration from the northern and eastern states will make up for it and the "demograp
Dhaka, April 24 (IANS) A series of lightning strikes in Bangladesh killed nine people in less than two hours amidst heavy rain, officials said on Monday.
The deaths were reported in different areas of Sunamg
Islamabad, April 23 (IANS) Former Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has warned that the country's current economic and political crisis has all the makings of attracting a military takeover, noti
Washington, April 23 (IANS) US President Joe Biden announced that the American military conducted an operation to extract the country's government personnel from Khartoum as the violence in Sudan continues
Unitted Nations, April 23 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the international community to accelerate climate action with deeper, faster emissions cuts.
"We need accelerated cli
Lisbon, April 23 (IANS) On his visit to Portugal, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Saturday that it is necessary to "choose a third way" to build peace for the war in Ukraine.
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Seoul, April 23 (IANS) About 60 per cent of South Koreans in their 20s and 30s said unification with North Korea is not necessary, a survey showed on Sunday, amid a prolonged impasse in inter-Korean relations a
Islamabad, April 23 (IANS) Pakistans state-owned entities (SOEs) are the worst in South Asia and their combined losses growing faster than assets, resulting in a significant annual drain on scarce public resour
Moscow, April 22 (IANS) The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that it has decided to "mirror" Germany's "hostile" actions and expel German diplomats from the country.
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New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) New rules governing the transfer of rural land in China have sparked concerns that the ruling Communist Party may be gearing up for the mass confiscation and reallocation of farmland