JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's western province of Yogyakarta on Friday evening, but did not trigger a tsunami, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Four people from the same family drowned in a dam in Jhelum district of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, the rescue service reported. According to the reports, the incident took place on Thursday when a man along with his two sons and a brother-in-law were swimming in Raja...
STOCKHOLM- COVID-19 health and safety measures for aviation were formally retired by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on Thursday. The Aviation Health Safety Protocol (AHSP) was issued by the two agencies in May 2020,...
PARIS, FRANCE- French security forces on Thursday deployed tear gas as they clashed with protesters during a rally triggered by the fatal shooting of Nahel M, a 17-year-old teenager, by a police officer during a traffic stop on Tuesday. The march in Nanterre, a town on the western outskirts of...
UNITED NATIONS -Since fighting broke out in Sudan in mid-April, more than 2.6 million people have fled their homes, with more than 560,000 of them becoming international refugees, UN humanitarians said on Thursday. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), more...
UNITED NATIONS- Geng Shuang, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, on Thursday called on parties concerned to increase support to bridge the humanitarian funding gaps in Syria. "At present, the huge gaps in humanitarian funding for Syria have already affected the...
BEIRUT, Lebanon- Lebanese Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned the burning of a copy of the Quran in Sweden. "This act, which is repeated for the second time, constitutes an assault on the sanctities of Muslims and a provocation to their feelings," the National News Agency quoted a ministry...
NEW YORK, USA- As gun-related death rates continue to rise each year in the United States, a new Pew Research study found that while views about gun ownership and gun policy remain starkly divided along party lines, Americans across the political spectrum increasingly see gun violence and violent...
SYDNEY, Australia - Researchers from the University of Queensland (UQ) developed a new vaccine against West Nile Virus (WNV) to protect farmed saltwater crocodiles from skin lesions. Â Â Â According to their study recently published in the npj Vaccines journal, the chimeric virus vaccines are...
LOS ANGELES, United States of America - Sixteen people were injured on Wednesday when a passenger train collided with a water truck blocking the tracks and partially derailed in the western U.S. state of California, authorities said. The accident happened at around 11:15 a.m. local time (1815 GMT)...
KABUL, Afghanistan - A total of 2,178 prisoners were released before Eid al-Adha, one of the most important festivals for Muslims, the Afghan Supreme Court said Thursday on its twitter page. Â Â Â The prisoners were freed based on the decree of the caretaker government's supreme leader...
BAMYAN, Afghanistan -- At least four commuters were killed and two others injured in a road accident in Afghanistan's central Bamyan province on Thursday, a statement of the provincial police said. Â Â Â The deadly accident occurred early Thursday morning in the Band-e-Amir district of the...
