5.2-magnitude quake hits 296 km ENE of Alotau, Papua New Guinea: USGS
New York [US], September 30: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted 296 km ENE of Alotau, Papua New Guinea, at 16:51:36 GMT on...
Half of food products in Spain become more expensive despite price caps:...
Madrid [Spain], September 30: Almost half (48.9 percent) of the food products in Spain that are subject to the government's sales tax reduction measures became...
Mediterranean EU countries urge concrete action against illegal migration
Valletta [Malta], September 30: Leaders of nine southern European countries have called for the European Union (EU) to finalize a new migration and asylum deal...
Singaporean PM encourages flagship media to keep objective in coverage
Singapore, September 30: Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong called on LianheZaobao, the flagship Chinese-language daily in Singapore, to provide objective and high-quality reporting while...
Maldivians return to polls to vote in presidential runoff
Colombo [Sri Lanka], September 30: The second round of presidential election in the Maldives kicked off on Saturday, after no candidate secured more than 50...
Brazil's Lula undergoes hip surgery 'without complications': doctor
Brasilia [Brazil], September 30: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is awake and recovering from hip surgery on Friday, which his doctor said went...
Putin discusses Ukraine war with top Wagner commander Troshev
Moscow [Russia], September 30: Russian President Vladimir Putin was on Friday shown meeting one of the most senior former commanders of the Wagner mercenary group...
Migrants are being raped at Mexico border as they await entry to...
Mexico City [Mexico], September 30: When Carolina's captors arrived at dawn to pull her out of the stash house in the Mexican border city of...
Republicans reject own funding bill, US government shutdown imminent
Washington [US], September 30: Hardline Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a bill proposed by their leader to temporarily fund the...
Sweden to call in military to help crack down on gangs
Stockholm [Sweden], September 30: Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson was meeting the head of Sweden's armed forces and the police chief on Friday to discuss ways...
Riyadh hosts World Tourism Day with participation of over 500 officials, experts...
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], September 30: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday hosted the events of World Tourism Day 2023 under the theme "Tourism and Green Investment", with...
Heavy rainfall, floods New York City bring to a halt
New York [US], September 30: Severe rainfall battered New York City on Friday causing widespread disruptions as subways and airports experienced significant issues while roads...
Abu Dhabi Police Commander-in-Chief meets Commissioner of Israeli National Police
Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 30: Staff Major General Pilot FarisKhalaf Al Mazrouei, Abu Dhabi Police Commander-in-Chief, met Commissioner of the Israeli National Police, General Yaakov...
ADAFSA to develop integrated strategy to reduce food loss & waste
Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 30: The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA) is intensifying its efforts to develop an integrated strategy to reduce...
Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed meets Prime Minister of Albania
Tirana [Albania], September 30: H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, has met with Edi Rama, Prime Minister...
U.S. California's surging gas prices spark call to suspend tax
California [US], September 29: The U.S. state of California is again witnessing gasoline prices soar to near record highs, sparking a call from the state's...
Australian Defence Force helicopters retired following fatal crash
Canberra [Australia], September 29: The Australian Defence Force's fleet of MRH-90 Taipan helicopters have been retired early following a fatal crash.
Expansion of North Korea nuclear force enshrined in law
Pyongyang [North Korea],September 29: North Korean law now allows for its nuclear force to be expanded after the policy was anchored into law by members...
Taiwan launches its first domestically built submarine
Taipei [Taiwan], September 29: Taiwan launched its first domestically built submarine on Thursday. President Tsai Ing-wen said building submarines domestically was an important combat force...
Stoltenberg, in Kiev, sees progress in Ukrainian counteroffensive
Kiev [Ukraine], September 29: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met President VolodymyrZelensky in Kiev on Thursday during his second visit to Ukraine since the Russian...
Biden warns democracies 'can die when people are silent'
Washington [US], September 29: President Joe Biden urged Americans to stand up for democracy in a speech Thursday that accused " rival Donald Trump and...
Vietnam jails environmental activist for 3 years for tax fraud
Hanoi [Vietnam],September 29: A Vietnamese court has sentenced an environmental activist to three years in prison on charges of tax fraud, just days after the...
Shutdown odds grow as Senate, House advance separate spending plans
Washington [US], September 29: The Democratic-led U.S. Senate forged ahead with a bipartisan stopgap funding bill aimed at averting a fourth partial government shutdown in...
Karabakh Armenians dissolve breakaway government in capitulation to Azerbaijan
Yerevan [Armenia], September 29: Ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh said they were dissolving the breakaway statelet they had defended for three decades, where more than half...
Appeals court will not delay Donald Trump civil fraud trial
New York [US], September 29: A New York appeals court refused to delay Donald Trump's scheduled Oct. 2 civil fraud trial, after the former U.S....
Powerful blast in Uzbek capital kills one, injures 162
Tashkent [Uzbekistan], September 29: One person was killed and 162 injured by a powerful explosion at a warehouse near Tashkent's airport that sparked a fire...
Student gunman kills three in Rotterdam university shooting
Amsterdam [Netherlands], September 29: A gunman killed three people in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Thursday, shooting a local woman and her daughter in...