Ambassador Munir Akram, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN, expressed profound concern in a speech to the UN Security Council (UNSC) about the growing dangers that peacekeepers from the UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) face. Following a briefing by two top UN peacekeeping officers to the 15-member […]
“There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform on Friday. “Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda,” Trump added. The […]
It said in a statement on its website that “the government approves” the “release (of) 737 prisoners and detainees” currently in the custody of the prison service. Israel’s cabinet voted to approve the ceasefire deal early Saturday, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, ending days of uncertainty about whether the truce would go into […]
Heavy rain, lightning, and winds as strong as 100 kilometers per hour (60 miles per hour) have swept across Sydney and other areas of New South Wales since Wednesday. With many power lines felled, about 30,000 properties remained without electricity Saturday — down from a peak of more than 260,000, said the state’s emergency services […]
Yoon, who is expected to attend the hearing, threw the nation into chaos on December 3 when he attempted to suspend the civilian rule, citing the need to combat threats from “anti-state elements”. Soldiers the president directed to storm parliament failed to stop lawmakers from voting down martial law just six hours after his shock […]
Israel’s cabinet approved a deal with Palestinian group Hamas for a ceasefire and release of hostages in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Saturday, a day ahead of the agreement’s scheduled start. In the early hours of Saturday after meeting for more than six hours, the government ratified the agreement that […]
HeartMate 3 developed by Abbott has been implanted in the chest of a 35-year-old man who has been hospitalised for the last four months due to advanced heart failure. The HeartMate 3 LVAD (left ventricular assist device), which is placed in the pumps blood to the rest of the body. The LVAD is attached to […]
Now the Republican president-elect, who will assume his second term in the White House on Monday, is seeking to protect TikTok from a new law that gives TikTok parent ByteDance until Sunday to sell the app to an American buyer or be banned in the U.S. President Joe Biden, with just three days left in […]
Germany has only one case of the disease, Oezdemir said on German radio Deutschlandfunk. Germany announced the country’s first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in nearly 40 years on Jan. 10 in a herd of water buffalo on the outskirts of Berlin in the Brandenburg region. German authorities are intensively testing animals on farms in the […]
The rebound in gold prices has hammered demand, and buyers are now waiting for prices to correct, said a Mumbai-based dealer with a private bullion importing bank. Domestic gold prices in India rose to 79,270 rupees ($915.60) per 10 grams this week and were not far from all-time highs, tracking gains in international spot gold […]
