Iran warned France on Wednesday of consequences after satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published cartoons depicting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Tehran deemed to be insulting. The weekly had published
The World Health Organization criticised China’s “very narrow” definition of Covid deaths on Wednesday, warning that official statistics were not showing the true impact of the outbreak. There is growing
The deeply riven United States House of Representatives was engulfed in crisis for a second day running Wednesday as fresh rounds of voting failed to produce a winner in the
At least nine people were killed and several others wounded in simultaneous car bomb attacks in a town in central Somalia on Wednesday, security officials and witnesses said. ‘The terrorists
The toll from a Ukrainian New Year strike in Makiivka has risen to 89, Moscow said on Wednesday, after Russians gathered to mourn the troops in a rare public display
A woman will head Mexico’s Supreme Court for the first time after Norma Lucia Pina was elected president on Monday amid controversy over plagiarism allegations against a rival candidate. The
Ukraine and the European Union will hold a summit in Kyiv on February 3 to discuss financial and military support, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky’s office said in a statement on
A total of 28 bodies were found in northwest Burkina Faso over the weekend, the government said. ‘The government was informed of an incident at Nouna… during the night of
Nepal’s newly-appointed Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has decided to take the vote of confidence in the Parliament on January 10, an official said on Monday, PTI reported. The
At least 1,034 workers died in workplace accidents, while 1,037 others were injured across Bangladesh in 2022, a new report said on Monday. The report by the Bangladesh Institute of