UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (AFP) UNITED NATIONS -- The world risks big misses across the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) unless actions to accelerate implementation are taken, said a UN report released on Monday. Failure to redouble global efforts to achieve the SDGs may fuel...
The FSO Safer vessel is seen at Ras Issa port in Hodeidah province, Yemen, on May 30, 2023. (Xinhua) SANAA, Yemen -- The transfer of crude oil from the dilapidated tanker Safer, stranded off the coast of Yemen, is expected to start early next week, a United Nations humanitarian official said on...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Xinhua) VILNIUS, Lithuania -- Türkiye agreed to advance Sweden's accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Monday, a day before the alliance's summit in the Lithuanian capital, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced....
NEW DELHI, India -- Heavy rains have triggered landslides, flash floods and inundation in India's northern state of Himachal Pradesh, killing at least nine people in the past two days, officials said Monday. The rains in the state have blocked 828 roads and three national highways. Rain-triggered...
 YANGON, Myanmar -- Fifty-three people were killed and 162 others injured in road accidents on Myanmar's Yangon-Mandalay expressway in the first half of 2023, the Nay Pyi Taw Expressway Traffic Police Force said on Monday.    A total of 83 road crashes have occurred on the busiest...
MOSCOW, Russia-- Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the representatives and commanders of the Wagner military group on June 29, RIA Novosti reported Monday, citing Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov. A total of 35 Wagner members were invited to the meeting, including the group's head Yevgeny...
 KHOST, Afghanistan -- Heavy rains and flash floods claimed one life and injured three others in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province on Sunday, Kalim Gul Abid, the provincial director for Natural Disaster Management Authority, said Monday.    The rainstorms, which triggered flash...
HELSINKI, Iceland-- Three people have died in a plane crash in the eastern part of Iceland, the Icelandic broadcasting company RUV reported on Monday. Â Â Â An emergency message was sent from the plane, a four-to-six-seater Cessna-type aircraft, at around 5 pm local time on Sunday, shortly...
TOKYO, Japan– Japan on Saturday marked a year since the shock assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, the country's longest-serving leader and a towering political figure. Abe was gunned down in broad daylight while giving a campaign speech in western Japan, targeted by a man...
SEOUL, Korea– A group of South Korean civic activists, politicians, fishermen and ordinary people gathered in central Seoul on Saturday to raise their voice against the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) final report on Japan's planned discharge of nuclear wastewater into the...
KYIV, Ukraine– President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed "brave" Ukraine on the 500th day of Russia's invasion on Saturday, as the war's toll mounted with eight deaths reported in Russian rocket fire. Zelensky published on social media an undated video clip of a visit to Snake Island in the Black...
MOSCOW, July 8– Russia has condemned the U.S. decision to supply cluster munitions to Ukraine as a path to genocide and a threat to world peace, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported on Friday. The U.S. decision was a direct path to genocide and it, together with its European partners,...
