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Manila: Floods in the Philippines have claimed the lives of 30 people, the country’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on Wednesday, adding that five people were missing and 13 others were injured.According to the agency,...

Washington:US tech giant Microsoft is set to fire approximately 11,000 workers to address the impacts of a slowing world economy, Sky News reported.The move represents a roughly 5% downsize of Microsoft’s workforce, although one analyst suggests that the figure...

Washington: Lucile Randon, a French nun and the world’s oldest known person, died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 118, AFP reported, citing a Sante-Catherine-Laboure nursing home spokesperson."There is great sadness but… it was her desire to...

Jakarta: A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 rocked off Indonesia's Gorontalo province on Wednesday morning, with no damages or casualties reported, the weather agency said.The country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said that the quake occurred at...

United Nations:Russia hopes that Ukraine will become realistic and sit down to negotiate, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia told journalists."We hope that our Ukrainian colleagues will become realistic and will come down to the table to...

Washington: Republicans in the US House of Representatives are moving to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for mismanaging US border, endangering US national security and contributing to the chaos on the country’s border with Mexico, CNN reported.Senior Republicans...

Washington: US Senator Todd Young and Taiwanese Foreign Minister Jaushieh Joseph Wu expressed hope for an even stronger partnership between the United States and Taiwan, the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry said.Young is on a visit to Taiwan from January 16-18....

Beijing: China has entered an “era of negative population growth”, after figures revealed a historic drop in the number of people for the first time since 1961, the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday."By the end of...

California: Six people, including an infant, were killed in a shooting in Goshen in the US state of California, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said."At this point, there are six total victims," Boudreaux told reporters, adding that among those...

Jerusalem: Thousands of students held protests across Israel against the government's newly proposed judicial reform, Israeli media reported.The protests were held on Monday at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, the University of Haifa and dozens of...