International

Xinhua/APP Hong Kong: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 jolted the Mariana Islands on Friday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicentre, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 20.31 degrees north latitude…

Xinhua/APP Berlin: The highly contagious H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected on three poultry farms in Germany, according to local authorities, leading to the culling of tens of thousands of animals. At the most severely…

AFP/APP Sydney: A magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck northern Vanuatu on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said, with authorities warning that "small tsunami waves" had been picked up by ocean monitoring equipment. The quake had…

AFP/APP New York: New York State sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, pointing to the soda giant's plastic waste as a scourge of waterways and blasting the company's "misleading" statements on the environment. The civil suit, filed by New York…

APP United Nations: A strike this weekend on a school run by the United Nations that was being used for shelter by thousands of displaced people in northern Gaza killed at least 24 people, a UN official said Sunday, as the Israeli…

AFP/APP Nairobi: Tens of thousands of people across Kenya have been affected by heavy rainfall, flooding, and landslides that have also disrupted cargo operations at the strategic Port of Mombasa, officials said. The Horn of Africa…

AFP/APP Gaza Strip: Columns of Palestinians, some sick and some wounded, made their way out of Gaza's largest hospital Saturday, walking for hours through the debris of war as they sought a new refugee. The Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City…

Xinhua/APP Beijing: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted south of Panama at 23:32:53 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at…

News Desk Gaza Strip: Hundreds of people evacuated Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on foot Saturday, an AFP journalist at the scene saw, after the hospital director said the Israeli army ordered the hospital emptied. The Hamas-run health…

Xinhua/APP Tokyo: The average number of influenza patients per regularly monitored medical institution in Japan this week came to 17.35, down by 3.78 from a week earlier, marking its first week-on-week decline in about three months, the…