ROME: Italian opera singing has been recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of
WASHINGTON: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council Wednesday that the war in the Gaza Strip “may aggravate existing threats to international peace and
RAMALLAH: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said Wednesday that “Palestinians in Gaza are living in utter, deepening horror,” as they “continue to
WASHINGTON: A suspect is dead following a shooting at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas that left three people wounded on Wednesday. Authorities received
JAKARTA: The death toll from the Mount Marapi volcanic eruption in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province has risen to 23, all of them hikers, police said
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said the situation in the Gaza Strip is worsening and approaching humanity’s “darkest hour”. WHO’s representative in the occupied
LOS ANGELES: The United States is experiencing increasing flu and Covid-19 infections nationwide, with elevated respiratory illnesses particularly among young children. Increasing numbers of people
PARIS: People seeking to ward off a plague of bed bugs in France are running the risk of poisoning themselves with illegal insecticides, the authorities
PARIS: Urbanites seeking peace and quiet in the bucolic French countryside will in future have greater difficulty in taking farmers to court over crowing roosters,
LONDON: The Earth is on course for a series of catastrophic tipping points that would cause misery to billions of people unless fossil fuels are
