Japanese Yen touches 32-year low
Oct 14, 2022, at 11:10 pm
Tokyo: The Japanese yen touched a 32-year low against the US dollar after official figures showed that prices had risen faster that expected in America.
Japan, Canada to begin intelligence-sharing talks amid growing threats from China, Russia
Oct 14, 2022, at 05:39 am
Tokyo: Japan and Canada have agreed to formally start talks toward signing the military intelligence information sharing accord as the foreign ministers of these two countries on Tuesday adopted an action plan to strengthen cooperation on defence, economic security, and other areas amid growing threats from China and Russia.
Finland to accept 1,050 refugees under UN quota in 2023
Oct 13, 2022, at 12:08 am
Helsinki: Finland will receive 1,050 refugees under the United Nations’ quota in 2023, mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a joint statement by the country’s interior and justice ministries.
Oct 12, 2022, at 09:48 pm
A neo-Nazi beauty queen who competed in a Miss Hitler contest and was jailed for being a member of banned far-right group National Action is going to be freed from priocn soon,media reports said on Wednesday.
Ukraine-Russia conflict: 8 held for Crimea bridge attack
Oct 12, 2022, at 08:55 pm
Moscow: Russia says it has detained eight people in connection with Saturday's explosion on a key bridge linking Russia to Crimea.
UK: Recession risk rises as economy shrinks in August
Oct 12, 2022, at 08:42 pm
London: Recession fear looms large over the UK as the country's economy shrank in August, media reports said.
12 countries elected to serve new terms on Human Rights Council
Oct 12, 2022, at 08:32 pm
New York: The UN General Assembly elected a dozen new countries on Thursday to serve on the Human Rights Council, while Germany and Sudan secured second terms.
UN rights report details ‘unconscionable’ violations of migrants returning from Libya
Oct 12, 2022, at 07:21 pm
Migrants in Libya who are compelled to accept so-called ‘assisted returns’ to their countries of origin often find themselves as victims of widespread and systematic human rights violations and abuses in conditions below those of international human rights laws and standards, according to a UN human rights report released on Tuesday.
Russia adds Meta to list of terrorist organizations
Oct 12, 2022, at 12:07 am
Moscow: Russia has added the Tech company Meta to the list of terrorist and extremist organizations.
Ukraine: Any threat to use nuclear weapons ‘should be universally condemned'
Oct 11, 2022, at 11:08 pm
The door for a diplomatic solution to end the fighting between Russia and Ukraine must be kept open, and any threat to use nuclear weapons, “universally condemned”, said the President of the UN General Assembly on Monday.
Grandi praises Angela Merkel’s strong ‘moral compass’ as she lands top UNHCR refugee award
Oct 11, 2022, at 10:56 pm
New York: For her political courage, compassion and decisive action in protecting people forced to flee, the head of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, presented the former Chancellor of Germany with the prestigious Nansen Award, on Monday.
Ukraine: Russian large-scale strikes are ‘unacceptable escalation’, says Guterres
Oct 11, 2022, at 10:45 pm
The UN chief António Guterres said that large-scale strikes by the Russian military on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other locations on Monday, were deeply shocking and represented “another unacceptable escalation” of the war.
UN experts call for complete abolition of death penalty as ‘only viable path’
Oct 11, 2022, at 10:41 pm
Marking the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty, two UN-appointed independent human rights experts on Monday issued a statement recalling that under international law, capital punishment is permitted only “in very limited circumstances”.
Historic net-zero international flight goal agreed at UN conference
Oct 11, 2022, at 10:22 pm
New York: State members of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) adopted a long-term goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, following two weeks of intensive diplomacy at the UN agency’s 41st Assembly, on Friday.
Oct 11, 2022, at 09:50 pm
Honiara: Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has said he has assured Australia that his government will not allow a Chinese military presence in the territory.
Contracts: Two Australian men arrested over alleged Sri Lanka bribes
Oct 11, 2022, at 03:40 pm
Two Australian men are due to appear in court on Tuesday after being charged with bribery of foreign government officials to win contracts for two infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka following a long-running investigation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP).
Russia fired 84 missiles, 10 dead, dozen injured: Ukraine
Oct 11, 2022, at 05:44 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Mass retaliatory strikes by Russia across Ukraine Tuesday killed 10 people and injured dozens more, media reports said.
SL President vows to better electoral system
Oct 10, 2022, at 11:37 pm
Colombo/UNI: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced a raft of amendments to the electoral system, noting that the existing political system was a major cause for the current economic crisis.
Economics Nobel awarded to 3 'for research on banks and financial crises'
Oct 10, 2022, at 09:22 pm
Stockholm: The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig “for research on banks and financial crises.”
75 missiles fired in ongoing attack: Ukrainian military
Oct 10, 2022, at 08:08 pm
Kyiv: Ukraine cities came under Russian missile attack on Monday as the war entered 229th day, the country's military chief said 75 missiles have so far been fired in the sudden wave of attacks.
Ukraine: Kyiv hit by multiple explosions
Oct 10, 2022, at 07:10 pm
Kyiv/UNI: Massive missile blasts rocked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv Monday morning including one near President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office.
57 children poisoned by an unknown substance in a Mexico school: Report
Oct 09, 2022, at 07:15 pm
As many as 57 students studying in a rural secondary school have fallen sick after poisoning by an unknown substance in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, Reuters reported citing local authorities.
Vladimir Putin orders intensified measures to protect Crimea-related facilities
Oct 09, 2022, at 05:50 pm
Moscow/UNI: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to strengthen measures for protecting transport crossing through the Kerch Strait, the power grid connecting Crimea and the main gas pipeline to the peninsula.
Oct 08, 2022, at 08:38 pm
Lagos/UNI: At least 24 people have been killed and 18,000 others displaced by floods in the rainy season starting from May in Nigeria's northern state of Katsina, a relief agency official said.
Nobel Peace Prize winners shine spotlight on ‘the power of civil society to promote peace’
Oct 08, 2022, at 03:55 pm
New York: The human rights advocates from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus who have been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, represent “the oxygen of democracy” said the UN chief on Friday, in a message of congratulations to the three winners.
Teen stabbed to death in Israel less than a year after he migrated from India
Oct 08, 2022, at 03:47 pm
A teen, who had recently immigrated to Israel from India with his family, was stabbed to death in Kiryat Shmona city on Thursday, media reports said on Saturday.
Ireland: Blast hits petrol station, 3 die
Oct 08, 2022, at 03:13 pm
Dublin: At least three people died as an explosion rocked a petrol station in Co Donegal city of Ireland on Friday.
Death toll rises to 13 in Ecuador prison riot
Oct 08, 2022, at 02:30 am
Quito/UNI: The number of prisoners killed during a riot on Wednesday in a prison in Ecuador's southwestern city of Guayaquil rose to 13, authorities reported.
Human rights advocates from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus clinch Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 07, 2022, at 09:32 pm
Oslo: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties, juries announced on Friday.
Nearly half of world’s terror victims are African, with organised crime increasingly entrenched
Oct 07, 2022, at 06:44 pm
New York: The threat of terrorism and organised crime is becoming increasingly entrenched across Africa, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime told the Security Council on Thursday, warning that illegal trafficking is depriving millions of a decent livelihood.