The Rescue and Emergency Service in Russia confirmed that the number of homes flooded by spring floods increased by 1.7 thousand during the last 24 hours, reaching nearly 18,000 homes.

By this morning, spring floods had submerged 17,808 residential h…

The Pakistani army announced that seven militants were killed during an attempt to infiltrate Pakistani territory across the Afghan border.

Radio Pakistan, quoting a statement from the Pakistani army Thursday, said that seven militants tried to infil…

Bilateral talks were held between the civil aviation authorities of the State of Qatar and Japan in Tokyo.

The Qatari side was headed by In Charge of Managing Qatar Civil Aviation Authority (QCAA) Mohammed bin Faleh Al Hajri, and the Japanese side by…

Weather inshore on Thursday will see moderate to relatively hot temperatures daytime, the Department of Meteorology said in its daily weather report.

Offshore, the weather will be fine, the report added.

Wind inshore will be northwesterly to northea…

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale struck on Thursday Tonga Islands located in the South Pacific.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said that the earthquake occurred 275 km west of Houma, at a depth of 389.9 km.

There have been no reports…

Croatia’s ruling HDZ party won Wednesday’s parliamentary election, without securing enough seats to form a government, and with a decline from the result it achieved four years ago.

According to preliminary results, the HDZ won 60 seats in the 151-se…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday that his country expects the United Nations (UN) to play its role in stopping the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.

After talks with his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi in Jakarta, the Chinese Forei…

Commissioner-General of the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini warned that a man-made famine is “tightening its grip” across the Gaza Strip, accusing Israel of obstructing aid deliveries and seeking to liquidate UNRWA’s…