Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus was convicted on Monday of breaking Bangladesh’s labour rules in a case denounced as politically motivated by his supporters. Yunus,...
Japan has issued tsunami alerts after a series of strong earthquakes have shaken western areas. The Japan Meterological Agency reported a quake on Monday hitting Ishikawa...
A new UNICEF report has revealed that 71 percent of new HIV infections among adolescents aged 10–19 years are among girls globally. According to the report,...
A plane crash in Nepal that killed 72 people, including two infants, was most probably the result of its pilots mistakenly cutting the power, a government...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has instructed the military, munitions industry, and nuclear weapons sector to expedite war preparations in response to what he described...
No fewer than fifteen workers were killed and 46 others injured on Sunday in an explosion at a nickel smelter furnace owned by Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless...
No fewer than 118 people were killed and hundreds were injured in an earthquake that struck some remote villages in northwest China. On Tuesday, rescuers dug...
Rukchanok “Ice” Srinork, a Thai female MP has been sentenced to six years in prison under the country’s harsh lese-majeste laws, and if bail is denied,...
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Tuesday they carried out a military operation against the Norwegian commercial tanker STRINDA in its latest operation to protest against Israel’s...
The death toll from a volcanic eruption in Indonesia has gone up to 22, after rescuers found nine more bodies. The search for the 10 missing...