SYDNEY, Australia --Â Australian police said a man was killed in Sydney's famed Bondi neighborhood Tuesday, in what local media called a "gang hit." Police block off a street at Bondi Junction, an eastern suburb of Sydney on June 27, 2023 after a shooting incident. Australian police said a man...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Over 2.4 million refugees globally will need resettling in 2024, a 20 percent increase compared to 2023, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Monday. According to the Projected Global Resettlement Needs Assessment for 2024 report, the Asian region tops the list of estimated...
CAIRO, Egypt -- A 13-storey residential building in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria collapsed on Monday, leaving at least four people wounded and several others trapped under the rubble. People work at the site where a residential building collapsed in Alexandria, Egypt, on June 26, 2023....
Members of Wagner group stand on the balcony of the circus building in the city of Rostov-on-Don, on June 24, 2023. (AFP) MOSCOW, Russia -- Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin defended his aborted mutiny Monday as a bid to save his mercenary outfit and expose the failures of Russia's military leadership,...
MOSCOW, Russia -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ukraine and its Western allies of wanting Russians to "kill each other" during a revolt by mercenaries of the Wagner group, which stunned the country with an aborted march on Moscow over the weekend. Russian President Vladimir...
NEW DELHI, India - Twelve people, including seven of a family, were killed and seven others injured early Monday after a bus carrying them collided head-on with another in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, police said. Â Â Â The accident took place near Digapahandi in Ganjam district, about...
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, -- Police in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province have arrested 93 people on charge of involvement in criminal activities over the past month, deputy head of the provincial police department Mawlawi Tahir Mabariz said Monday. Addressing a press conference, the official...
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines and the World Bank (WB) on Monday signed several loan agreements amounting to 1.14 billion U.S. dollars to finance various government initiatives aimed at accelerating economic recovery. Philippine Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno and World Bank Country...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - At least 14 people were killed and six others injured in rain-related accidents in different areas of Pakistan during the last 24 hours, officials said on Monday. Â Â Â Deputy Commissioner of Narowal district of the eastern Punjab province Muhammad Ashraf told Xinhua...
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar destroyed more than 446.05 million U.S. dollar worth of narcotic drugs seized from around the country to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on Monday, police said. The seized illegal drugs and precursor chemicals were ceremonially burnt...
JERUSALEM- Violence in the occupied West Bank persisted Saturday with Israelis attacking Palestinian residents and a Palestinian shooter killed by Israeli forces at a checkpoint, officials on both sides said. The latest incidents add to a mounting toll which has cost four Israeli and 16 Palestinian...
KATHMANDU, Nepal- Scaling Everest is always dangerous, but expedition organisers have warned that a combination of extreme weather, corner-cutting on safety, and inexperienced and "impatient" foreign climbers has resulted in one of the peak's deadliest mountaineering seasons. As the last search and...
