A passenger plane slipped off the runway while landing in Pakistan’s northern Peshawar city on Monday, a spokesperson for the country’s civil aviation authority said. The flight from Pakistan International Airlines was coming from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, when the accident took place at Bacha Khan International Airport, Saifullah Khan, the spokesperson, told Xinhua. He said […]
The fertility rate of Filipino women in the Philippines has continued to decline since the 1970s, according to Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data. The results of the 2022 National Demographic and Health Survey released, on Sunday, showed that the total fertility rate (TFR) of Filipino women aged 15 to 49 declined from 2.7 children per […]
Uganda’s Ministry of Health says Ebola has spread to the eastern part of the country beyond the epicentre in the central region. Ruth Aceng, Minister of Health, tweeted on Sunday that a confirmed fatal case, who is a 45-year-old male, has been reported in the Jinja district of eastern Uganda. The confirmed fatal case died […]
The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Simon Stiell, on Friday lauded China’s determination and concrete actions taken to deal with climate change. Stiell made the remarks during a meeting with the Chinese delegation to the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the UNFCCC being […]
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his visiting U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, on Friday discussed a number of regional and international issues, the Egyptian Presidency said in a statement. Meeting on the sidelines of the 27th session of the Conference of Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Egypt’s Red Sea […]
Malawi, on Tuesday, received a consignment of 2.9 million doses of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) for a single-dose reactive campaign to the Cholera outbreak. The recent outbreak has killed over 200 people since the country reported the first case in March. A joint statement released by the WHO, UNICEF and Malawi G“vernment said the OCV […]
Zimbabwe’s first satellite, ZimSat-1, was successfully launched into space on Monday, state-run Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday. ZimSat-1, a nanosatellite, was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Launch Facility in Virginia on board the Cygnus NG-18, an uncrewed spacecraft that provides commercial cargo resupply […]
The first urban airspaces, in which drones would be able to fly beyond the pilot’s line of sight, could be in place by autumn 2023, experts have said. An EU framework regulation opens up the possibility of so-called U-spaces as early as the end of January next year. The legislative processes in Germany would, however, […]
British businesses fear a gloomy Christmas ahead, as almost half of the households plan to cut festive spending due to the soaring cost of living and sales are already falling sharply in inflation-adjusted terms. Payments processor, Barclaycard, said 48 per cent of people it surveyed over Oct. 21-24 plan to spend less this Christmas, with […]
Botswana has won its bid to host the permanent secretariat of the Kimberley Process (KP), the grouping that certifies that diamonds are not used to fund rebel groups. But its members remain divided over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The KP, a coalition of governments, the diamond industry and civil society representatives, said in a statement […]