Many citizens appeared to ignore calls to seek shelter as sirens were heard in Seoul during a nationwide air defense exercise
India on Wednesday became the first nation to land a craft near the Moon’s south pole, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling it a “historic day”. “Historic day for India’s space sector,” he wrote on the social media platform X, previously known as Twi...
The New Development Bank could multilateralize the Western-dominated global financial system, Chris Hart has told RT
China is standing on the right side of history and will keep working to build a shared future for mankind, President Xi Jinping has said
Fierce storms closed schools Wednesday in Saudi Arabia‘s Mecca region, home to Islam’s holiest site, the Grand Mosque, which was lashed by heavy rains and wind overnight, witnesses said. As pilgrims tried to circumambulate the Kaaba, the giant black cube...
Finland, Europe’s largest producer of fox fur, is culling 120,000 farmed foxes and minks in response to bird flu outbreaks in the country’s fur farms, officials said Wednesday. “A culling order has been issued for 13 farms,” Tuija Gadd, head of the virolo...
The German cabinet on Wednesday signed off plans to help people change their legal gender more easily, but the proposals stirred criticism from feminists, politicians and even the trans community. Under the proposals, Germans will be able to change their...
Hungary has released more than 1,400 convicted people smugglers from prisons, authorities said Wednesday, a move which the European Commission is challenging. Last month, the European Commission launched a legal procedure against Hungary after Prime Minis...
The head of Russia’s aerospace force General Sergei Surovikin has been sacked, state media said Wednesday, after he disappeared from public view following a failed mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group in June. Nicknamed “General Armageddon” for his ruthle...
The report to be released on Thursday says an increase in global temperatures of 3-4°C would cost Australia $135 billion to $423 billion.
The annual prizes for Australian science recognised efforts to confront the key challenges facing our world.
BRICS countries should create a joint payment system to boost economic ties and confront global challenges, Redge Nkosi says
President Tsai Ing-wen gave thanks Wednesday to the fallen soldiers who fended off Chinese Communist forces 65 years ago in a frontline island battle, crediting their victory for putting Taiwan on “the path of democracy and freedom”. Her visit to Taiwan’s...
Greek firefighters on Wednesday struggled to contain uncontrolled fires throughout the country for a fifth day, several of them bordering an acrid, smoke-filled Athens. A fire ripped through the foothills of Mount Parnitha, the largest forest adjoining th...
Final preparations to discharge wastewater from the crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan were under way Wednesday, its operator said, a day before the scheduled release into the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo had announced on Tuesday that the operation would beg...