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Sukkur - Pakistan's flooded southern Sindh province braced Sunday for a fresh deluge from swollen rivers in the north as the death toll from this year's monsoon topped 1,000.The mighty Indus River...

Addis Ababa - The UN children's agency UNICEF on Saturday condemned an air strike that "hit a kindergarten" in Ethiopia's Tigray region, killing at least four people including two children."UNICEF...

British households on Friday faced an eye-watering 80-percent hike in electricity and gas bills, in a dramatic worsening of the cost-of-living crisis before winter as the country awaits a new...

Heavy rain pounded much of Pakistan Friday after the government declared an emergency to deal with monsoon flooding it said had affected more than 30 million people. The annual monsoon is essential...

NASA's Artemis 1 mission, scheduled to take off on Monday, is a 42-day voyage beyond the far side of the Moon and back.The meticulously choreographed uncrewed flight should yield spectacular images as...

Iran has dropped some of its main demands on resurrecting a deal to rein in Tehran's nuclear program, including its insistence that international inspectors close some probes of its atomic program,...

Paris - This year was supposed to confirm the world economy's comeback from the Covid pandemic crisis. Instead, the six-month-old war in Ukraine has sparked fears of recession."Six short months ago...

Manila - Millions of children in the Philippines returned to school as the academic year started on Monday, with many taking their seats in classrooms for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic...

Cairo, - As it prepares to expand to serve a population now exceeding 20 million, the Cairo metro has recruited Egypt's first female train drivers, a novelty in a country where few women have formal...

Washington - The IMF said Friday a team will travel to Sri Lanka next week to resume aid talks that were interrupted amid the unrest that led to the resignation of the nation's president.The island...

India's entertainment capital is expanding its fleet of London-style red double-decker buses nearly a century after they made their debut - this time as electric vehicles. The first of 200 new buses...

Oil prices fell Monday on the prospects of a return of Iranian oil to the market and data showing China's economic recovery stuttering under Covid-19 restrictions.Stock markets were broadly steady and...

Inflation, supply chain problems, and ongoing Covid-19 lockdowns in China are among the factors conspiring to delay a full recovery in business travel to its pre-pandemic level, according to an...

Kenya was moving closer Monday to learning the outcome of its closely-fought presidential election after days of anxious waiting.Deputy President William Ruto was leading with slightly more than 51...

Cairo - Funerals were held in two Cairo churches Sunday evening for 41 victims of a fire that ripped through a Coptic Christian church during mass, forcing worshippers to jump out of windows.The...

KARACHI/NEW DELHI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Ali Hasan Baqai and Abid Hasan Baqai, brothers split for 75 years by the partition of India and Pakistan, talk with their families on a video call, words and...

Mumbai - Colourful stock market billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala -- dubbed by local media India's Warren Buffet -- has died, his office said Sunday, just a week after he launched the country's newest...

A year since returning to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban are a stronger military force than ever, but threats to their rule do exist.To tighten their grip, the Taliban have poured thousands of...

FIFA and Qatar organisers on Friday counted the cost of bringing forward the start of the World Cup by a day as they launched the 100-day countdown to the event. Football's ruling body and the Gulf...

The total global number of unemployed youths should fall to 73 million in 2022, down by two million from the year before, the United Nations said Thursday.However, the figure is still six million...