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Colombo: Sri Lanka's highest court on Thursday ordered aSingaporean shipping firm to pay US$1 billion in damages for causing the island's worst marine...

Geneva: More than 1.3 million people who fled the fighting in Sudan have headed home, the United Nations said Friday, pleading for greater...

Geneva: The medical charity Doctors Without Borders said Friday that a quarter of all young children and pregnant or breastfeeding women screened at...

Islamabad: Almost half of the 266 deaths linked to Pakistan's heavier-than-normal monsoon rains were children on their national school holidays, officials said Friday....

Islamabad:Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Thursday that his country is determined to resolve issues under the Indus Waters Treaty through dialogue...

Ankara: The Central Bank of Turkiye (CBRT) on Thursday cut interest rates by 300 basis points to 43% , exceeding expectations. This marks...

Cairo: Egypt has welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement that France intends to officially recognize the State of Palestine, calling it a significant...

Gaza: A child has died of famine and malnutrition in Gaza, raising the death toll from starvation to 114. Medical sources in Gaza...

Jeddah: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has welcomed the announcement by French President Emmanuel Macron of his country’s intention to officially recognize...

Manila: The Philippines' top court blocked the impending Senate impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Friday, saying it violated a constitutional...

Bangkok: Thai authorities announced the imposition of martial law in eight border districts shared with Cambodia, as clashes between the two sides continued...

Jakarta: The number of Indonesians living under the poverty line has hit a record low for the past two decades, the country's statistics...

Geneva: Oxfam International warned that the incidence of waterborne diseases in the Gaza Strip is dangerously increasing and could turn into a deadly...

Dhaka: Special prayers were held across Bangladesh on Friday, as the death toll from a fighter jet crash into a school building in...

Helsinki: Finland has broken an over 50-year-old weather record as the country is witnessing the longest period of temperatures above 30C, the Finnish...

Washington: SpaceX chief Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service experienced an hours-long global network outage Thursday, which executives attributed to a key software...

Gaza: Two Palestinians were killed and several others injured on Friday following Israeli airstrikes targeting shelters housing displaced people in Gaza City and...

Jaipur, India: At least seven children were killed and 26 others injured Friday after part of the roof and walls of a government-run...