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LONDON: Monitored populations of nearly 5,800 vertebrate species declined by an average of 73% between 1970 and 2022, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in its latest Living Planet Report published on Thursday. The Living Planet Index, managed by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and WWF, tracked […]
STOCKHOLM: Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for her “bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”, the Swedish Academy said. The prize is worth 12 million Swedish crowns ($1.2 […]
GOA: Veteran Indian actor Nana Patekar has died at the age of 75 after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Goa, Indian media reported on Thursday. Hospital sources cited by NDTV said doctors tried to revive the Bollywood actor for around 45 minutes after he was brought to […]
STOCKHOLM: Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving a long-standing riddle involving asymmetric “mirror-image” molecules, the Nobel Prize-awarding body said on Wednesday. The discovery has proved important for pharmaceutical manufacturing, where producing the correct version of a molecule can determine how a […]
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Sunday lodged a protest with the United States after a US Marine was arrested on suspicion of robbing and murdering a Japanese woman in Okinawa. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, is suspected of killing Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel in Naha, the capital […]
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has provided the Yemeni government with a new tranche of budget support worth more than $59.66 million, Saudi Ambassador to Yemen Mohamed Al Jabir said on Thursday, amid escalating regional tensions and attacks by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement. In a post on X, Al Jabir said the […]
KARACHI: Five people, including three Pakistani nationals, were killed and five others injured when Puntland security forces stormed the hijacked oil vessel MT Honour 25 off Somalia, ending a hostage ordeal that lasted five months and eight days. The Pakistani nationals killed were identified as Second Officer Kashif Umar, Rafiullah […]
GENEVA: A deepening funding crisis could leave nearly 8.3 million refugees and forcibly displaced people without access to assistance this year and push protection systems in some countries towards collapse, the United Nations refugee agency warned on Tuesday. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said it was facing one […]
TEHRAN: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has appealed to US voters to reject President Donald Trump’s policies and support what it described as an opportunity for peaceful coexistence between Iran and the United States. The appeal was made in a 25-page open letter addressed to the American people and […]
CALIFORNIA: California has formally recognised Eidul Fitr and Eidul Azha in state law, allowing workers to use existing paid leave to observe the Islamic holidays and encouraging schools and public workplaces to accommodate those celebrating them. Assembly Bill 2017, signed into law on September 10, recognises the two religious festivals […]