Kate meets Danish queen, plays with kids on Copenhagen trip
COPENHAGEN: The Duchess of Cambridge met Wednesday with Denmark's popular monarch, Queen Margrethe, and her daughter-in-law, Crown Princess Mary, in Copenhagen as part of...
Italy trucks waste to protected area after return from Tunisia
Author: Wed, 2022-02-23 15:10
LONDON: A huge dump of illegal rubbish has been trucked from the Italian port city of Salerno to Persano, a rural...
Italian migrant destination to host cultural center
Rome: A former military base in Lampedusa, the tiny Italian island where hundreds of thousands of migrants have landed by sea from North Africa...
Ukraine starts drafting reservists aged 18-60 after president’s order
KYIV: Ukraine on Wednesday has started conscripting reservists aged 18-60 following a decree by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the armed forces said in a statement.The...
‘Thugs and bullies’: Nations sanction Russia over Ukraine
TOKYO: World leaders sought Wednesday to back up their tough words over Russia's aggression against Ukraine, announcing financial sanctions, trade and travel bans and...
Sweden battles disinformation on ‘kidnappings’ of Muslim children
Stockholm: Swedish authorities are fighting back against claims its social services are "kidnapping" Muslim children, denouncing a "disinformation campaign" of viral videos spreading mistrust...
US sanctions Russia for ‘beginning’ invasion of Ukraine
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced tough new sanctions on Russia for "beginning" an invasion of Ukraine but said there was still...
Japanese robot servers allow staff with disabilities to work in Tokyo cafe
TOKYO: A cafe in Tokyo is allowing bedridden citizens to work by controlling robot staff. The "Avatar Robot Cafe'' says it is the prototype...
Standoff ends at Amsterdam Apple Store, hostage safe
THE HAGUE, Netherlands : An armed person was holed up in Amsterdam's Apple Store with at least one hostage Tuesday night in an hours-long...
Omicron variant no more severe than original strain: WHO
GENEVA: The BA.2 variant of the Omicron coronavirus strain is not more severe than the original, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.Based...