World

  • Service : English General
  • Category : World
  • N. Korea fires artillery shells into inter-Korean buffer zone

    Date: 2022-10-19 06:39:32 GMT - south korea - World - SN:9 - ID:9829886

    SEOUL, Oct 19 (MENA) - North Korea fired artillery rounds into a buffer zone with South Korea that is designed to reduce tension on the Korean Peninsula, Yonhap News Agency quoted the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) as saying Wednesday. The North ....

  • Biden administration to tap oil reserve again ahead of midterms

    Date: 2022-10-19 06:33:37 GMT - USA - World - SN:8 - ID:9829879

    WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (MENA) - The Biden administration will release 15 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in December in a bid to drive fuel prices down, senior Biden administration officials said. The release will account ....

  • EU could impose sanctions on Iran in a few days over alleged drone supplies to Russia: CNBC

    Date: 2022-10-19 05:31:15 GMT - USA - World - SN:1 - ID:9829818

    WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (MENA) - The European Union could impose new sanctions on Iran "in a matter of days" following further investigations into whether it helped Russia in its war in Ukraine, two sources told CNBC. Ukraine has blamed Tehran for ....

  • John Hopkins: Coronavirus cases worldwide exceed 625 mln

    Date: 2022-10-18 20:34:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:84 - ID:9829403

    WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (MENA) - As many as 625,441,263 people have been reported to be infected with coronavirus globally, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) said on Tuesday. It added that about 6,569,533 have died from the virus worldwide. The US ....

  • UN chief: Sustainable Development Goals are being pushed far out of reach

    Date: 2022-10-18 09:28:07 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:28 - ID:9828094

    NEW YORK, Oct 18 (MENA) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the Sustainable Development Goals are being pushed far out of reach. As we mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Guterres said "we face a ....

  • S. Korea, US to launch joint air drills using F-35B stealth jets this month

    Date: 2022-10-18 07:29:56 GMT - south korea - World - SN:19 - ID:9828028

    SEOUL, Oct 18 (MENA) - South Korea and the United States will kick off large-scale air drills involving U.S. F-35B stealth jets later this month, Seoul officials said Tuesday, as they seek to sharpen their deterrence against potential North Korean ....

  • Russians hit Mykolaiv with S-300 missiles, killing one perso

    Date: 2022-10-18 07:18:38 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:17 - ID:9828061

    KYIV, Oct 18 (MENA) - Russian troops last night launched a rocket attack on Mykolaiv, killing a man, Vitaliy Kim, head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration said on Telegram. "Last night, Mykolaiv was again fired upon with S-300 ....

  • Europe adopts range of measures to tackle energy shortages: The Guardian

    Date: 2022-10-18 06:49:04 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:15 - ID:9827968

    LONDON, Oct 18 (MENA) - Governments across the continent have announced a range of measures to tackle any energy shortages this winter, according to The Guardian. Paris is switching off the Eiffel Tower lights an hour early, Milan has turned off ....

  • 13 killed as military jet crashes into apartments in western Russia

    Date: 2022-10-18 06:30:21 GMT - Russia - World - SN:14 - ID:9827974

    MOSCOW, Oct 18 (MENA) - At least 13 people have died after a Russian SU-34 fighter jet crashed into a residential building in the western city of Yeysk during a training flight Monday, according to Russian state media and authorities. The ....

  • Russia's Ashot Sarkisov, one of the world’s largest scientists in nuclear energy, dies

    Date: 2022-10-18 06:28:13 GMT - Russia - World - SN:13 - ID:9827967

    MOSCOW, Oct 18 (MENA) - One of the world’s largest scientists in the field of nuclear energy, one of the founders of the Russian nuclear Navy, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Ashot Sarkisov, has died. TASS news agency said a ....

Middle East News Agency © - designed and developed : GCSSD