International

AFP/APP Abidjan: Thirteen people have been killed and 45 injured in a road accident in northern Ivory Coast, after a tanker truck crashed into a bus, rescuers and local media said Saturday. A bus carrying passengers and a…

AFP/APP Paris: More than 100,000 left-wing demonstrators rallied across France on Saturday to protest against the nomination of the centre-right Michel Barnier as prime minister and denounce President Emmanuel Macron's "power grab".…

AFP/APP Vietnam: Super Typhoon Yagi slammed into northern Vietnam on Saturday, causing widespread destruction, uprooting thousands of trees, sweeping ships and boats out to sea, and tearing roofs off homes. The deadly storm claimed at…

AFP/APP Dublin: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was to meet his Irish counterpart Simon Harris in Dublin on Saturday, marking the first visit by a British leader to Ireland in five years. London is looking to reset damaged relations with…

AFP/APP Nairobi: At least 17 children died after a fire tore through their primary school dormitory overnight in central Kenya, police said Friday. The blaze occurred in Nyeri County's Hillside Endarasha Academy at around midnight,…

AFP/APP Los Angeles: Joe Biden's son Hunter pleaded guilty in his tax evasion trial on Thursday, without reaching the deal he had sought with prosecutors, in a case that has been an embarrassment and a distraction for the US president.…

News Desk  New York: The UN International Labour Organization (ILO) highlighted on Wednesday that the global trend of shrinking pay packets in heavily industrialized economies may be temporarily influenced by technological innovations…

AFP/APP Madrid: Spain registered its hottest August in 2024 since records began, with an average temperature of 25°C (77°F), according to the national weather agency. Heat records have fallen or been tied in several places around the…

AA/APP Istanbul: At least 20 Burmese individuals are still missing after a boat capsized in Myanmar. The boat, carrying 40 passengers from Laos to Myanmar, encountered engine failure on the swollen Mekong River late Monday, according to…

Xinhua/APP Sydney:A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck 57 km south of Panguna, Papua New Guinea, at 06:13:34 local time (20:13:34 GMT on Sunday), according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The quake occurred at a depth of 41.0 km,…