CAPE CANAVERAL (AFP) - The first American spacecraft to attempt to land on the Moon in more than half a century successfully launched early Monday, with private industry leading the charge. …

DUBAI (AFP) - Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels fired two missiles late Tuesday toward merchant ships travelling in the Red Sea near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the US military said f…

DHAKA (Xinhua) -- Remittances from millions of Bangladeshis living and working overseas totaled nearly 11 billion U.S. dollars in the first half of the current fiscal from July 2023 to June 2024…

TOKYO (Xinhua) -- The death toll has risen to 64 in the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa as of Wednesday noon, after a series of powerful earthquakes hit the area in central Japan and the…

TEL AVIV (AFP) - Seconds after ringing in the new year on a lively street in Tel Aviv, some young Israelis found themselves running for cover while others kept the party going with a shrug …

RAMALLAH (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said Sunday that more Palestinians were killed in conflicts in 2023 than in any other year since 1948.   &nb…

COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka slapped a new 18 percent value added tax (VAT) on fuel, mobile phones and computers from Monday to raise desperately needed revenue ahead of a foreign debt restruc…

BEIJING (Xinhua) - China's state-level economic and technological development zones have played an important role in high-quality development and the stability of foreign trade and inve…

Kathmandu: Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat has said Udayapur Cement Factory is important for the whole country.     All should join hands to address the problems the Fa…