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Unlike its 'Ring of Fire' neighbours, Australia is not regularly hit by major quakes
World
18.08.2024
Strong 6.6 quake hits off northwest Australia: USGS
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen spoke with her Haitian counterpart Jovenel Moise for half an hour to discuss possible cooperation in education and infrastructure, without providing specific details
World
18.08.2024
Taiwanese president courts ally Haiti during Caribbean tour
Ershad was also a prolific poet
World
18.08.2024
Former Bangladesh military dictator Ershad dies at 89
Billboards in New York's famous Times Square were without power during Saturday's outage
World
18.08.2024
Huge power outage that plunged Manhattan into darkness ends
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Some 150,000 public sector workers have lost their jobs since the attempted putsch which the government says was orchestrated by US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, leading to a mass crackdown on alleged supporters
World 18.08.2024
Three years on, Turkey purge victims struggle to make ends meet
Yazidi survivor Layleh Shemmo looks at a tatoo bearing the names of her two sons at a tent in the Khonke displacement camp in northwestern Iraq on June 24, 2019
World 18.08.2024
Men still missing, Yazidi women stitch together incomes after IS
The bones will be compared with blood samples from surviving Yazidis to help determine the fates of those still missing after the Islamic State group’s 2014 rampage
World 18.08.2024
Blood, bones paired to probe IS crimes against Iraq's Yazidis
Yazidi teenager Jihan Qassem faced an impossible choice after being freed from years as a hostage of the Islamic State group, abandon her three young children fathered by a jihadist fighter or risk being ostracised by her community
World 18.08.2024
Agony of Yazidi women torn between IS kids, or return home
Billboards in Times Square are dark during a power outage in New York on July 13, 2019
World 18.08.2024
Huge power outage plunges Manhattan into darkness
A woman holds photos of migrant children who have died in US custody as people protest in LA against the upcoming ICE raids and detentions of refugee asylum seekers
World 18.08.2024
As US agents prepare to arrest 'thousands,' migrants live in fear
Greek economist and former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, pictured July 03, said an officer at Charles de Gaulle airport pushed him, grabbed his passport and told him to stand against the wall
World 18.08.2024
Maverick Greek economist Varoufakis in Paris airport row
China has banned Canadian agriculture products, sentenced two Canadians to death and detained three others since Ottawa arrested a top Huawei executive
World 18.08.2024
Canada says another citizen detained in China amid row
Iran said the Grace One's destination was a legal one in the eastern Mediterranean
World 18.08.2024
UK says Iran tanker will be freed after guarantees on destination
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