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Geneva: The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday awarded the 2023 Olympic Cup to the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation for its commitment to supporting refugee athletes and refugees worldwide through taekwondo.IOC president Thomas Bach presented the Cup in a ceremony at...

Seoul: Tickets for the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Gangwon, South Korea will be free of charge for all events except the opening ceremony in Gangneung, according to the International Olympic Committee.The tickets for Gangwon 2024, which...

Tokyo: Japan closely monitors developments in North Korea, including the visit of a Russian government delegation to Pyongyang, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Wednesday."Japan closely monitors the situation in North Korea, including and conducts information...

Moscow: The Russian Defense Ministry said its air defense system had shot down a Ukrainian drone over the Russian western region of Smolensk Region on Wednesday."On November 15, at about 7:30 a.m. Moscow time , an attempt by the...

Gaza: The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Wednesday that they had managed to evacuate patients, injured and medical staff from Al-Quds Hospital in the Gaza Strip on November 14."It was a challenging and perilous day. Today, we...

Hanoi: Torrential rains since early this week left three people missing in the central region of Vietnam, according to the latest report of the country's National Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control on Wednesday.Approximately 40 people, including...

Jerusalem: The Israeli Premier League will resume on November 25, the Israeli Professional Football Leagues (IPFL) announced.The league was suspended on October 7 due to the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict.The matches will be held behind closed doors, as...

Seoul: Four domestic and foreign automakers in South Korea will voluntarily recall some 11,000 vehicles for manufacturing defects, the transport ministry said on Wednesday.Mercedes-Benz Korea will recall 9,528 units of 14 models, including the E 250 sedan, for a...

Accra: Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday called for reparations for Africa over the effects of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on the continent.Akufo-Addo made the appeal at the opening of the Accra Reparations Conference in the Ghanaian...

Beijing: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted Banda Sea at 0241 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said.The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 6.07 degrees...