An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale struck the southwestern town of Makurazaki in Japan’s Kagoshima prefecture today. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the epicentre was at a…
Fires consumed some 29.7 million hectares of land in Brazil between January and November 2024, the largest area burned in six years and almost double the previous year, according to…
A senior Russian army official has been killed in an explosion near a residential building in south-east Moscow this morning (Tuesday), according to Russia’s Investigative Committee, the country’s main investigative…
China successfully launched a new set of satellites into space on Tuesday from a satellite launch centre in Taiyuan, northern Shaanxi province. The launch took place at 02:50 Beijing time…
The head of Kyrgyzstan’s presidential administration, Akilbek Jabarov, has announced his resignation. According to the Kyrgyz news agency ‘Kabar’, Jabarov said goodbye to the staff of the presidential administration today,…
The United Nations Mission in Libya (UNMIL) announced on Sunday the formation of a technical committee of Libyan experts to identify key milestones and priorities for a consensus government to…
Qatar announced on Sunday that it will reopen its embassy in Syria on Tuesday after being closed for nearly 13 years, following the ousting of Bashar al-Assad’s regime by opposition…
Niger’s defence ministry has announced that 39 civilians, including women and children, have been killed in two separate attacks by suspected militants on border areas in the west of the…
An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale struck the province of Chlef, west of the Algerian capital, early on Monday morning, according to the Algerian Centre for Research in…
German Chancellor Olaf Schulz faces a confidence vote in the Bundestag on Monday, a proposal he put to parliament last week after his centre-left coalition government collapsed, with the aim…