Turkey's lawmakers approve Sweden's NATO membership

Jan 25, 2024

Ankara [Turkey], January 25: Turkey's parliament on Tuesday ratified Sweden's NATO membership after more than a year of delays that upset Western efforts to show...

Tuvalu expected to review Taiwan ties after election

Jan 25, 2024

Tuvalu [Oceania], January 25: Tuvalu expects to review its diplomatic ties with Taiwan after Friday's election.

Trudeau govt to appeal ruling on use of emergency powers to end 2022 protests

Jan 25, 2024

Ottawa [Canada], January 25: The Canadian government will appeal a court ruling that Ottawa's use of emergency powers in early 2022 to end anti-government protests...

Israeli attack on UN refuge in Gaza prompts rare rebuke from Washington

Jan 25, 2024

Gaza [Palestine], January 25: Israeli tanks struck a huge U.N. compound sheltering displaced Palestinians on Wednesday, causing "mass casualties", the United Nations said, as Israeli...

39 killed, 9 injured in east China building fire

Jan 25, 2024

Beijing [China], January 25: Thirty-nine people were killed, and nine others injured after a building fire broke out Wednesday afternoon in the city of Xinyu...

UN chief calls for immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza

Jan 24, 2024

United Nations, January 24: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday yet again called for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza.

Two-state solution only way out of Israeli-Palestinian conflict: UN chief

Jan 24, 2024

United Nations, January 24: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed Tuesday that a lasting end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only come through a two-state solution.

Jailed Polish ex-ministers released after being pardoned again

Jan 24, 2024

Warsaw [Poland], January 24: Poland's former Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski and his deputy Maciej Wasik were released from prison on Tuesday night, after being pardoned...

Bosnia and Herzegovina on path to EU accession: European Commission chief

Jan 24, 2024

Sarajevo [Bosnia and Herzegovina], January 24: Bosnia and Herzegovina is on the EU path, said Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in...