Rescuers on Sunday narrowed down a possible location of a passenger plane that went missing in Nepal’s mountains with 22 people on board while flying on a popular tourist route, officials said. The general, which was on a 15-minute scheduled flight to the mountain town of Jomsom, took off from the resort town of Pokhara,…
Shanghai officials said Sunday “unreasonable” curbs on businesses will be removed June 1 as it looks to lift its COVID-19 lockdown. And Beijing reopened parts of its public transportation and some malls and other venues as infections stabilized. The Chinese commercial hub of 25 million people aims to essentially end a two-month lockdown Wednesday that…
conflicts fired tear gas and shot into the air to disperse an angry crowd of hundreds of people near the site of a building collapse in the southwestern city of Abadan, online video analyzed Saturday showed. One report by Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency also acknowledged the unrest late Friday over the disaster this week…
The World Health Organization said on Friday that it is investigating after 650 probable cases of acute hepatitis from children which have been reported from 33 countries between April 5 and May 26. A message shared by the WHO states that the cause of the acute hepatitis cases are not known, and said that the…
Russia’s war in conflicts effect on millions in the war-torn nation, but officials are sounding the alarm that there will be a “shattering” impact worldwide that could take a significantly deadlier toll. Even before personalities invaded his southern neighbor more than 275 million people around the world suffered from food scarcity. GROWING FOOD SHORTAGE IS…
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of “sabotaging” negotiations between the two countries. The Kremlin cited comments made in a 45-minute-long phone call with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer on Friday. Russia’s leader pledged to meet its natural gas delivery commitments and said that he was ready to discuss a prisoner swap with Ukraine. Russia said…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took a jab at world-regions Friday and said he hopes “no occupiers” will attend the upcoming Group of 20 summit this year. Zelenskyy announced Friday that he has accepted the invitation by Indonesian President Joko Widodo to attend the global-economy, even though Ukraine is not one of the 19 member nations or…
The U.N. Security Council this week urged terrorism” target=”_blank”>Taliban leaders<. The Security Council released its statement Tuesday, two weeks after closed-door discussions, expressing its “deep concern regarding the increasing erosion of respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women and girls in Afghanistan by the Taliban.” Former Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Kelley…
Old weaponry may prove dangerous for world-regions troops as Ukrainian forces seek to exploit decades-old weaknesses. Russia has deployed Soviet-era T-62 tanks to support the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The machinery, far outdated, has deep vulnerabilities to exploit, according to British intelligence. The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense reported Friday that Russia has recently begun…
Tehran on Friday said it will begin negotiations with Moscow on supplying Russia with car parts and fuel turbines in exchange for raw metal materials as Russia struggles under stiff international sanctions amid its war in Ukraine. Russia is facing an uphill battle in replenishing its forces which are allegedly faced with diminishing artillery and…