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Final death toll in Russia's weekend strike reaches 44, including 5 kids

The final death toll from a weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building in southeastern Ukraine reached 44, officials said, as the body of another child was pulled from the wreckage

European Union outlines plan for clean tech future boosted by subsidies

European Union pushed forward with a massive clean tech industrial plan which not only should keep the continent in the vanguard of plotting a greener future but also guarantee its economic survival

US Prez Joe Biden to host Netherlands PM for talks on tech, Ukraine

Tuesday's wide-ranging talks are also expected to cover the countries' efforts to thwart Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine and an upcoming democracy summit

Asian share markets slip as China says economy slowed further in 2022

US futures fell after markets on Wall Street were closed Monday for a holiday, while oil prices were mixed

Nations express 'deep concern' at Israeli punitive measure on Palestine

The 193-member General Assembly voted 87-26 with 53 abstentions on December 30 in favour of the resolution which was promoted by the Palestinians and opposed vehemently by Israel

China's economic growth falls to 3% in 2022, not even half 2021's rate

Growth of the world's second largest economy slid to 2.9 per cent over a year earlier in December from the previous month's 3.9 per cent, government data showed Tuesday

US military's expanded training for Ukraine forces begins in Germany

The US military's new, expanded combat training of Ukrainian forces began in Germany on Sunday, with a goal of getting a battalion of about 500 troops back on the battlefield to fight the Russians

Americans should 'pay attention' to Martin Luther King's legacy: Biden

King, who was born on Jan. 15, 1929, was killed at age 39. He helped he fueled passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965

House Republicans demands visitor logs in Biden classified docs case

The White House on Saturday said it had discovered five additional pages of classified documents at Biden's home on Thursday

Business trusted most among govts, NGOs, media in polarizing world: Report

People are more gloomy about their economic prospects than ever before and trust business far more than other institutions like governments, nonprofits, and the media in an increasingly divided world

68 dead, 4 missing in Nepal's worst airplane crash in three decades

The type of plane involved, the ATR 72, introduced in the late 1980s by a French and Italian partnership, has been involved in several deadly accidents over the years

Strong undersea earthquake shakes western Indonesia, no tsunami alert

The magnitude 6.0 earthquake was centred 48 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of Singkil, a coastal district in Aceh province at a depth of 48 kilometers (30 miles)

Ukraine races to rescue people from Russian missile strike on Dnipro

The casualties were the worst from a barrage of Russian strikes on several cities in Ukraine on Saturday

Thousands of Israelis rally against Netanyahu government in Tel Aviv

Israeli media, citing police, said the crowd at Tel Aviv's Habima Square swelled to at least 80,000 people, despite cool, rainy weather

Iran hangs former defence ministry official Ali Akbari in spy claim

Akbari, who ran a private think tank, is believed to have been arrested in 2019, but details of his case only emerged in recent weeks

As tornadoes hit Alabama, survivors hid in tubs, shipping containers

The storm brought powerful winds to Alabama and Georgia that uprooted trees, sent mobile homes airborne, derailed a freight train, flipped cars, cracked utility poles and downed power lines

UK to supply tanks to Ukraine as Russian missiles hit Kyiv: PM Rishi Sunak

British media has reported that four British Army Challenger 2 main battle tanks will be sent to eastern Europe immediately, with eight more to follow shortly after

China reports almost 60,000 Covid deaths as govt fails to release data

The death toll included 5,503 deaths due to respiratory failure caused by COVID-19 and 54,435 fatalities from other ailments combined with COVID-19

Elon Musk rebuffed in bid to move misleading Tesla tweet trial to Texas

A federal judge rejected Tesla CEO Elon Musk's bid to move or delay a trial over a misleading tweet about a potential buyout of the electric automaker

Tesla cuts vehicle prices in bid to boost flagging demand

With its sales slowing and its stock price tumbling, Tesla Inc. slashed prices dramatically Friday on several versions of its electric vehicles