UN recommends Great Barrier Reef be listed as "in danger"
Canberra (Australia), November 29: A landmark United Nations (UN) report has recommended Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef be added to the World Heritage "in danger"...
Intl' students contribute 5 bln euros a year to French economy :...
Paris (France), November 29: International students contribute around 5 billion euros (5.2 billion U.S. dollars) a year to the French economy, according to a survey...
New COVID-19 subvariants account for over half new cases in U.S.
Los Angeles (US), November 29: New Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 accounted for over half of new COVID-19 cases in the United States in the...
Roundup: U.S. weekly flu hospitalizations hit record high since 2010
Los Angeles (US), November 29: Over 11,200 patients in the United States were hospitalized with flu in the latest week, the highest rate in the...
Amazon Web Services to return more water than it uses by 2030
San Francisco (US), November 29: Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon, on Monday announced it will be water positive (water+) by 2030, returning...
Japan's PM seeks to up defense budget to 2 pct of GDP...
Tokyo (Japan), November 29: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday required cabinet ministers to increase Japan's defense budget to around 2 percent of gross...
Some 460,000 people in Cambodia fall below poverty line due to pandemic:...
Phnom Penh (Cambodia), November 28: Some 460,000 people in Cambodia have fallen below poverty income thresholds since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, said a...
Australia lowers terrorism threat level
Canberra (Australia), November 28: Australia's terrorism threat level has been downgraded for the first time in almost a decade.
S. Korea seeks to change dividend-linked rules to attract more foreign investment...
Seoul (South Korea), November 28: South Korea will push to change regulations in a way that would allow investors to know how much they would...
S. Korea's new COVID-19 cases below 30,000 amid resurgence worries
Seoul (South Korea), November 28: South Korea's new COVID-19 cases fell below 30,000 on Monday due to fewer tests over the weekend, but the government...
Yoon's approval rating rises to 36.4 percent: Realmeter
Seoul (South Korea), November 28: President Yoon Suk-yeol's approval rating rose to 36.4 percent, surpassing the mid-30 percent range for the first time in four...
S. Korea to reduce bond issuance of state-run firms, stabilize market
Seoul (South Korea), November 28: South Korea plans to reduce the issuance of bonds by state-run companies, the finance ministry said Monday, in line with...
UNICEF hands over child-friendly classrooms to Bangladesh
Dhaka (Bangladesh), November 28: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has handed over 110 classrooms for 22 schools to the government of Bangladesh.
Israel launches national plan to preserve, develop ecological corridors
Jerusalem (Israel), November 28: Israel's Ministry of Environmental Protection announced on Sunday a national plan to preserve and develop ecological corridors throughout the country.
Cotopaxi volcano in Ecuador registers new activity with gas emissions, ash fall
Quito (Ecuador), November 28: Gas and water vapor emissions, a low level of ash and an increase in seismic activity were recorded on Sunday at...
Israel's Netanyahu signs coalition deal with 2nd far-right party
Jerusalem (Israel), November 28: Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party and far-right Noam party signed a coalition deal on Sunday, moving Netanyahu one step...
Malaysia reports 2,022 new COVID-19 infections, 4 more deaths
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), November 28: Malaysia reported 2,022 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Sunday, bringing the national total to 4,986,294, according to the health...
Iranian parliament approves bill for Iran's accession to SCO
Tehran (Iran), November 28: The Iranian parliament on Sunday approved a bill for Iran's membership to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the semi-official Mehr news...
Swedes may face "even worse" energy situation next winter: expert
Stockholm (Sweden), November 28: The energy situation will be even worse next winter in Sweden, an expert from the Swedish Energy Agency warned on Saturday.
Israeli ministerial coalition to abandon bilateral agreements: Palestinian official
Ramallah (Palestine), November 28: The Israeli ministerial coalition has signed a deal to abandon bilateral peace agreements signed under international auspices, a senior Palestinian official...
Palestinian PM accuses Israel of seizing two-thirds of Palestine's groundwater
Ramallah (Palestine), November 28: Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye on Sunday accused Israel of seizing two-thirds of the Palestinian groundwater and diverting it into its...
Iran's top leader says negotiation won't solve problems with U.S.
Tehran [Iran], November 27: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that the country's problems with the United States will not be solved...
Bomb blast kills 5 soldiers in Yemen's oil-rich Shabwa
Aden [Yemen], November 27:At least five members of Yemen's government forces were killed Saturday in a bomb explosion in the country's southern oil-rich province of...
Police seize batch of smuggled ammunition in SW Iran
Tehran [Iran], November 27: Iranian police seized a batch of smuggled ammunition in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, the semi-official Tasnim news agency...
Train service in Israel shut down due to signal failure
Jerusalem [Israel], November 27: Israel's rail service halted on Saturday due to a nationwide train signaling failure, state-owned Israel Railways said in a statement.
Russia reports 6,088 new COVID-19 cases
Moscow [Russia], November 27: Russia registered 6,088 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide tally to 21,568,846, said the official monitoring...
Over 1 mln vehicles pass through Croatia's Peljesac Bridge since inauguration
Zagreb [Croatia], November 27: Over 1 million vehicles have passed through the Peljesac Bridge since it was inaugurated on July 26 this year, said Slavisa...