Japan starts self-driving bus test runs in Tokyo
Tokyo [Japan], October 3: The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has kicked off its test runs of a self-driving bus, as Japan seeks driverless services and autonomous...
New head of UN organisation aims to change migration's image
Geneva [Switzerland], October 3: The new director general of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday stressed the benefits of legal migration and pledged...
The US stopped military aid to Ukraine for 45 days
Washington [US], October 3: US President Joe Biden is pressuring Republican lawmakers to include a provision for increased aid to Ukraine in the next budget...
Britain announced a huge contract for the nuclear submarine project
Britain [UK], October 3: The British Ministry of Defense said SSNAUKUS will be the largest, most advanced and powerful attack submarine used by the navy,...
Mexican President condemns US military aid to Ukraine
Mexico City [Mexico], October 3: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador criticized the US's "unreasonable" military aid to Ukraine, saying Washington needs to spend more...
India's monsoon rains hit five-year low due to El Nino
New Delhi [India], October 3: India's monsoon rainfall this year was its lowest since 2018 as the El Nino weather pattern made August the driest...
Bangladesh dengue deaths top 1,000 in worst outbreak
Dhaka [Bangladesh], October 3: The death toll from Bangladesh's worst dengue outbreak on record has topped 1,000 this year, official data showed, with hospitals struggling...
UN authorizes Haiti security mission to fight gangs
New York [US], October 3: The United Nations Security Council on Monday authorized a foreign security mission to Haiti, a year after the Caribbean country...
Australia PM rallies support for Indigenous referendum as early voting starts
Sydney [Australia], October 3: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he would focus on having one-on-one conversations with Australians to rally support for the Indigenous...
More than 100 Amazon dolphins found dead, heat and drought blamed
Washington [US], October 3: The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating on a tributary of the Amazon River since last week in...
Trump reaped over $1 billion in fraud
New York [US], October 3: Donald Trump attacked New York's attorney general and the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial.
UAE invites GCC Ministers of Health to attend COP 28
Dubai [UAE], October 3: Abdulrahman bin Mohamed Al Owais, Minister of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has once again invited GCC Health Ministers to attend the...
Dubai Culture and Expo School Programme enhance teachers' knowledge through LinkedIn e-learning
Dubai [UAE], October 3: In celebration of World Teachers' Day and in recognition of the role and efforts of the profession in shaping conscious and...
WHO, WADA sign MoU to collaborate on clean, drug-free sport
Geneva [Switzerland], October 3: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have signed a four-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) to allow...
Australian gov't to crack down on student visa exploitation
Canberra [Australia], October 2: The Australian government has announced a crackdown on international student visa scams.
Schools in Libya's Derna reopen after deadly floods
Tripoli [Libya], October 2: Schools were reopened Sunday in the eastern city of Derna, which was hit by deadly floods a few weeks ago that...
Indonesian president declares operation of Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway
Jakarta [Indonesia], October 2: Indonesian President Joko Widodo declared the official operation of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) at Halim Station in Jakarta Monday morning.
Iraq investigators blame fatal wedding fire on ignored safety rules
Cairo [Egypt], October 2: Investigators in Iraq say a fire that killed more than a hundred people at a wedding party earlier this week was...
Top EU diplomat is counting on continued US aid to Ukraine
Kyiv [Ukraine], October 2: EU foreign policy chief JosepBorrell is counting on the United States to continue security assistance to Ukraine, despite aid for the...
Coalition talks loom after win for former Slovak PM Fico
Bratislava [Slovakia], October 2: Slovakia's former prime minister Robert Fico and his left-wing nationalist party have won the country's parliamentary elections, in a victory that...
UN mission visits Karabakh, first in 30 years
Lachin[Azerbaijan], October 2: A United Nations mission visited Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijan said, after almost the entire ethnic-Armenian population fled since Baku recaptured the breakaway...
Erdogan defiant after PKK attack
Ankara [Turkey], October 2: Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan said Sunday that "terrorists" will never achieve their aims, hours after a blast near the parliament in...
McCarthy vows to survive ouster threat for avoiding shutdown
Washington [US], October 2: Top U.S. House Republican Kevin McCarthy said he expected to survive a threat to his speakership after a hardline critic within...
Swiss trial acquits man who admitted abducting Belarus politicians
Geneva [Switzerland], October 2: YuryGaravsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent members of the country's opposition....
Spain: Nightclub fire kills 13 in Murcia
Murcia[Spain], October 2: At least 13 people have died in a fire that engulfed three nightclubs in the south-eastern Spanish city of Murcia.
Mourners hail dead Russian mercenary Prigozhin as hero of the people
Moscow [Russia], October 2: At memorials to Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in an unexplained plane crash exactly 40 days ago, dozens of mourners hailed...
Nigeria's President Tinubu increases wages as national strike looms
Abuja [Nigeria], October 2: Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has announced a six-month increase to the minimum wage as workers are set to start an indefinite...