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KHARTOUM: State oil company workers and doctors in Sudan said on Wednesday they were joining protests against the military coup that has derailed the country's planned transition to...

KHARTOUM: Roads were blocked, shops were shut, phones were down and mosque loudspeakers blared calls for a general strike in Sudan on Tuesday, a day after the army seized power in a coup that...

KHARTOUM: Soldiers arrested most of the members of Sudan's cabinet on Monday and the military chief dissolved the transitional government, while opponents of the takeover took to the streets where...

GENEVA/GLASGOW: Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a record last year and the world is "way off track" on capping rising temperatures, the United Nations said on Monday, showing the task facing climate...

BEIJING: China's latest COVID-19 outbreak is increasingly likely to spread further, a health official said on Sunday, as authorities urged all regions to step up monitoring and called for a reduction...

The crown prince of Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that the world's top oil exporter aims to reach zero-net emissions by 2060 and more than doubled its annual target to reduce carbon emissions to...

Oman Air recently announced its intention to apply to join the Oneworld global airline alliance and said it had asked fellow member Qatar Airways to help it. Oman Air said it had approached Qatar...

The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine showed 90.7% efficacy against the coronavirus in a clinical trial of five to 11-year-olds, the U.S. drugmaker said on Friday.Sixteen children in the trial who had...

At least 22 people were killed after heavy rains lashed the south Indian state of Kerala over the weekend, officials said.Rainfall across the state led to flash floods and landslides in several areas,...

Facebook Inc blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as...

Manila: The Philippine economy will take more than a decade to return to pre-pandemic growth, an official said Thursday, warning the next two generations of Filipinos would be paying for the cost of...

Oil prices will see modest gains for the rest of the year and into 2022 as consumption resumes its recovery to pre-pandemic levels, with a likely COVID-19 resurgence still looming large over the...

LONDON: Britain's transport minister pleaded with drivers on Tuesday to refrain from filling up old water bottles with fuel at gas stations after panic buying left pumps dry across major cities."We're...

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE on Tuesday asked U.S. health regulators to authorize their COVID-19 vaccine in kids aged 5 to 11. The application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration comes as COVID-19...

LONDON: Up to 90% of British fuel stations ran dry across major English cities on Monday after panic buying deepened a supply chain crisis triggered by a shortage of truckers that retailers are...

LA PALMA, Spain: Jets of red hot lava shot high into the sky on the Spanish island of La Palma on Thursday morning as toxic ash from the Cumbre Vieja volcano coated the surrounding area and...

HONG KONG/SINGAPORE: Chinese regulators have asked China Evergrande Group to avoid a near-term default on its dollar bonds, Bloomberg Law reported on Thursday, the day the property developer is due to...

LA PALMA, Spain: Lava flowed from an erupting volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma for a fourth day on Wednesday, forcing more people to evacuate their homes and blanketing towns in ash, while...

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday issued its first air quality guidelines since 2005 aimed at reducing deaths from key pollutants that cause cardiovascular and respiratory...

LA PALMA, Spain: Lava flowing from the Canary Islands' first volcanic eruption in 50 years has forced the evacuation of 5,500 people, destroyed at least 100 houses, and was expected to trigger toxic...