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May 22, 2024 11:04 AM

Nepal’s Kami Rita Sherpa climbs Mount Everest for record 30th time

Nepali mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 30th time on Wednesday morning, setting a new world record. "This morning at 7:49 am, Kami Rita Sherpa broke his own record he had set just nine days earlier. This marks...

May 22, 2024 10:16 AM

AI Global Forum opens in South Korea during second AI summit

Safety is a priority in the use of artificial intelligence, South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said at the opening of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Global Forum in Seoul on Wednesday (May 22). The one-day global forum is being held alongside...

May 22, 2024 8:49 AM

Vice President Dhankhar embarks to Tehran for Iranian President Raisi’s funeral

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday morning departed for Tehran to attend the funeral of late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, his foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and other officials who were killed in a helicopter crash, the Minis...

May 21, 2024 9:54 PM

VP Dhankhar to attend Iranian President Raisi’s funeral in Tehran

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar is set to travel to Tehran to attend the funeral of the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and other officials, died in a helicopter crash. The Ministry of E...

May 21, 2024 7:09 PM

Iranian President Raisi’s memorial muted amid public discontent

Thousands of Iranians turned out to mourn President Ebrahim Raisi in the city of Tabriz on Tuesday, after he was killed in a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan border at the weekend along with his foreign minister and seven others. "Everyone has c...

May 21, 2024 6:28 PM

EU countries adopt plan to use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine’s defence

EU countries have formally adopted a plan to use windfall profits from Russian central bank assets frozen in the EU for Ukraine's defence, the Belgian government said on Tuesday. The text only needed a rubber-stamp by ministers after EU ambassadors ...

May 21, 2024 5:44 PM

One dead, 30 reported injured as Singapore Airlines flight hit by turbulence

A Singapore Airlines flight from London made an emergency landing in Bangkok on Tuesday due to severe turbulence, officials said, with one passenger on board dead and local media reporting multiple injuries. Singapore Airlines did not say at what po...

May 21, 2024 4:52 PM

Half of world’s pastures degraded by overuse, climate change, UN report says

Half the world's natural pasture land has been degraded by overexploitation and the impact of climate change, putting food supplies and livelihoods in peril, the United Nations body in charge of fighting desertification said on Tuesday. The United N...

May 21, 2024 4:22 PM

Iran to hold snap presidential elections on June 28

Following the tragic death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on Sunday afternoon, the heads of the three branches of the Iranian government have agreed to hold snap presidential elections on June 28. This decision was confirmed...

May 21, 2024 4:02 PM

Israeli troops push into Jabalia, airstrikes kill five in Rafah

Israeli forces thrust deeper into the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza on Tuesday, laying waste to residential districts with tank and air bombardments, residents said, while Israeli air strikes killed at least five people in the southern city of Rafah....

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