MALE: The small but strategically placed Maldives will strengthen its military to defend its vast maritime territory, the new president vowed on Monday after ordering Indian troops to withdraw from the archipelago. Mohamed Muizzu said in his first address to parliament he would turn the modest
LONDON: New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) predict a 77% increase in cancer cases globally by 2050. The report points to air pollution as one of the factors driving the expected increase in cancer rates, even though it does not have the same
LONDON: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg looked back on his Facebook journey, as one of the world's leading social networks marked 20 years since its launch in 2004. Following its launch on February 4, 2004, the platform has become one of the most popular social media apps
NEW YORK: A coalition of students at Brown University in Rhode Island has initiated a hunger strike, urging the university to divest from companies profiting from the ongoing conflict in Gaza. The group, consisting of 19 students, including Palestinians, Jews, and others, is committed to the
BARCELONA: Kashmiris from the liberated part of AJ&K (AJK), people of Pakistan and their allies across the world observe Feb. 05 as Kashmir Solidarity Day to reiterate and renew support to popular struggle for right to self-determination of Kashmiris. Held annually since early 1990s, it was
JAKARTA: Arriving on a rickety boat in western Indonesia from squalid Bangladesh camps after weeks at sea late last year, hundreds of Rohingya refugees came to shore only to be turned around and pushed back. The persecuted Myanmar minority were previously welcomed in the ultra-conservative Aceh
BELFAST/DUBLIN: Northern Ireland lawmakers are set to elect an Irish nationalist First Minister for the first time on Saturday, placing a member of the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army in charge of a region where it seeks an end to British rule. But
UNITED NATIONS: Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have continued to flee intense hostilities in Khan Younis towards the massively overcrowded southern city of Rafah which UN humanitarian officials described as a “pressure cooker of despair.” The warning from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, comes
MADRID: Madrid airport is struggling to cope with an unprecedented influx of African asylum seekers, who have to sleep in crammed, dirty spaces, prompting the Red Cross to stop providing services there in protest. Hundreds of migrants, the majority from Senegal, have in recent weeks requested
MALE: India will start withdrawing its troops deployed in the Maldives from next month, Male's foreign ministry said after talks. New Delhi considers the strategically located Indian Ocean archipelago -- which straddles key global shipping lanes -- to be within its sphere of influence. But the Maldives