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New York: The UN Secretary-General on Tuesday strongly condemned the launch of a ballistic missile by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), more commonly known as North Korea, which reportedly travelled over Japan. more
UN envoy urges dialogue to end political impasse in Iraq

New York: The absence of a functioning government in Iraq one year after elections were held is hard to justify, the top UN official in the country said on Tuesday, urging political leade ...

Pakistan: To avert ‘second wave of death’, UN raises funding appeal to $816 million

New York: Battling what the top UN aid official in Pakistan has warned is a “second wave of death and destruction”, following catastrophic flooding since June that left a thir ...

Mainland China: Google shuts down translation services

Beijing:  American tech giant Google has announced its decision of shutting down the Google Translate service in mainland China, media reports said on Tuesday.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2022: 3 scientists awarded

Stockholm: Alain Aspect from France, John F. Clauser from the United States and Anton Zeilinger from Austria won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum information scie ...

Iran blames unrest on US, Israel

Tehran: Iran's supreme leader has blamed the US and Israel for the protests sweeping the country following the death of a woman in police custody.

Sri Lankan delegation to visit China

Colombo: A high-profile Sri Lankan delegation will visit China, perhaps in November, a newspaper announced on Tuesday.

More action and investment needed in cities to end ‘cascade of challenges’

New York: In his message marking World Habitat Day on Monday, the UN chief said more “urgent action and greater investment” is the key to help alleviate the current “cas ...

Gotabaya Rajapaksa in quiet campaign to restore image

Colombo: Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country in July and returned quietly last month, has begun a quiet campaign to restore his image shattered by economi ...

North Korea files intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan

Pyongyang: North Korea fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) over Japan on Tuesday,  the South Korean military said.