Dubai: The UAE is to launch a new Moon mission after a spacecraft carrying its Rashid exploratory rover was thought to have crashed during an attempted lunar landing. Japanese company iSpace, which had been hoping to complete the first landing on the Moon’s surface by a
Khartoum: Amid deadly fighting that has been ongoing since April 15, World Health Organisation (WHO) warned of a "huge biological risk" after fighters in Sudan captured the National Public Health Laboratory in the capital Khartoum. The lab contains samples of diseases and other biological material, that
Beijing: China’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Zhang Jun has called on the warring parties in Sudan to promptly end their hostilities. The recent eruption of armed conflict in Sudan has led to massive civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction. “It pains China, a good friend
Birmingham: Holding any event related G20 in Indian Illegally-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIoJK) is brazen violation of UN Charter and international, speakers said at a conference in this British city, calling on the world’s top 20 economies to not enter IIoJK on Indian invitation. “India inviting
Beijing: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Asim Munir visited the headquarters of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and met its commander on Wednesday. They discussed regional stability and military cooperation. The army chief, who is in China on a four-day official visit, arrived in the
Washington: Rapid aging of both wealthy and middle-income countries will make their economies increasingly dependent on migration from poorer countries, and the process needs to be better managed, the World Bank said. The bank's latest World Development Report said that about 184 million people across the
Madrid: Spain is bracing for a week of temperatures as high as 40C that are forecast to shatter records for April, as officials weighed opening public swimming pools early and adapting school schedules and meteorologists warned of the risk of wildfires. Coinciding with a long-running drought,
United Nations: The COVID-19 pandemic caused millions of children to miss out on routine vaccines and countries must act now to restore essential immunization coverage to a least 2019 levels, the World Health Organization (WHO), a Geneva-based UN agency, has said. Under the banner of ‘The
Mexico City: An impending change in U.S. border policy could put increased pressure on Mexico's migrant detention system and lead to more reports of rights violations, migrant advocates have warned, in the wake of a fire that killed 40 people. On May 11 the U.S. is
United Nations: Russia’s Foreign Minister warned that the European Union “is becoming militarized at a record rate” and aggressive in its goal of containing Russia. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a news conference he has no doubts that there is now “very little difference” between the