Published On: October 11, 2022 08:13 AM NPT By: Reuters
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 11: Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob dissolved parliament on Monday, paving the way for national elections to be held in the coming weeks.
Published On: October 11, 2022 08:00 AM NPT By: Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine, Oct 11: Russia retaliated Monday for an attack on a critical bridge by unleashing its most widespread strikes against Ukraine in months, a lethal barrage that smashed civilian targets, knocked out power and water, shattered buildings and killed at least 14 people.
Published On: October 10, 2022 08:05 PM NPT By: Reuters
STOCKHOLM, Oct 10: A trio of U.S. economists including Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke won this year's Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for laying the foundation of how world powers now tackle global crises like the recent pandemic or the Great Recession of 2008.
Published On: October 10, 2022 07:10 AM NPT By: Associated Press
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, Oct 10: A Russian missile barrage that crumbled apartment buildings and houses in Ukraine’s city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least dozen people, Ukrainian officials said Sunday as Moscow strained to enforce its takeover of illegally annexed territory.
Published On: October 9, 2022 07:39 AM NPT By: Reuters
KYIV, Oct 9: A powerful blast damaged Russia's road-and-rail bridge to Crimea on Saturday, hitting a prestigious symbol of Moscow's annexation of the peninsula and the key supply route to forces battling to hold territory captured in southern Ukraine.
Published On: October 8, 2022 08:05 AM NPT By: Reuters
Oct 8: The Biden administration on Friday published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with U.S. equipment, vastly expanding its reach in its bid to slow Beijing's technological and military advances.
Published On: October 7, 2022 04:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
OSLO, Oct 7: Jailed Belarusian activist Ales Byalyatski, Russian organisation Memorial and Ukrainian group Center for Civil Liberties won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, highlighting the significance of civil society for peace and democracy.
Published On: October 7, 2022 02:05 PM NPT By: Associated Press
SANIBEL ISLAND, Oct 7: Rotting fish and garbage lie scattered in Sanibel Island’s streets. On the mainland, debris from washed-away homes is heaped in a canal like matchsticks. Huge shrimp boats sit perched amid the remains of a mobile home park.
Published On: October 7, 2022 01:11 PM NPT By: Reuters
STOCKHOLM/PARIS, Oct 7: French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for "the courage and clinical acuity" in her largely autobiographical books examining personal memory and social inequality.
Published On: October 7, 2022 07:05 AM NPT By: Associated Press
BANGKOK, Oct 7: A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a day care center Thursday in Thailand, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers and then shooting more people as he fled. At least 36 people were slain in the deadliest rampage in the nation’s history.