Category: 2. World

International leaders and philanthropists, including Bill Gates, announced $1.9 billion in funding to advance polio eradication on Monday, but a large funding gap remains after high-income countries’…

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said a second phase of the US-brokered plan to end the war in Gaza is close – but that key issues still need to be resolved.

Under the second phase of President Donald Trump’s plan, Israel should…

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“Raise your head up high, you’re a free Syrian” goes the chorus of the Arabic song that has become the unofficial anthem of the new Syria. It’s…

A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake has shaken north-eastern Japan, prompting orders for about 90,000 residents to evacuate and tsunami warnings that hours later were downgraded to advisories.

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) initially said a…

ABU DHABI: Pakistan has emerged as a central focus of a global polio funding drive after…

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Japan’s Meteorological Agency says 40cm (16-inch) tsunami observed at Mutsu Ogawara and Urakawa ports.

A powerful magnitude 7.6…

BANGKOK — A history of enmity between Thailand and Cambodia over competing territorial claims has broken into open combat again, just a few months after the two sides agreed to a ceasefire promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump to end their…

A powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern coast on Monday, triggering evacuation orders and a tsunami warning for parts of the coastline.

A tsunami of almost 10…

If ubiquity and handshakes were the only measures of success, Ahmed al-Sharaa would be diplomat of the year.

Since he formally became president of Syria on 29 January 2025, the former leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham – a jihadist group with an…