A 5.6-magnitude earthquake that hit the Indonesia’s West Java province, on Monday, has killed at least 162 people, officials said. The quake also caused heavy damage to many houses, buildings and infrastructure facilities. People strongly felt the tremors in the national capital Jakarta. About 13,784 people were forced to flee their homes and take shelter […]
Zoom Video Communications Inc, on Monday, lowered its annual revenue forecast, as the video-conferencing platform expects a hit from declining online business. Zoom Chief Financial Officer, Kelly Steckelberg, said during a post-earnings call that the company’s online business would decline nearly eight per cent during the year. After recording blistering growth during the pandemic, Zoom, […]
The British Government says it has no plans to move to a Swiss-style relationship with the European Union. This is coming after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s eurosceptic lawmakers warned against pursuing closer alignment with the trading bloc. The Sunday Times reported that Sunak’s government would look to pursue frictionless trade with the EU, which Britain […]
A South Korean fighter jet crashed on Sunday, with its pilot escaping safely, Yonhap news agency reported, citing the South Korean air force. The KF-16 fighter jet, which belongs to the 19th Fighter Wing, crashed at about 8.05 p.m. local time (1105 GMT) in an area some 20 kilometres west of Wonju city. Wonju is […]
Libya and Tunisia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on trade cooperation between the two countries. The MoU was signed by the Libyan Minister of Economy and Trade, Mohamed al-Hwej, and the Tunisian Minister of Trade and Export Development, Fadhila Rabhi, the Libyan Government said in a statement issued. The agreement includes studying […]
Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in a military operation in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the Pakistani military said on Wednesday. An exchange of fire occurred between security forces and terrorists in the Hilal Khel area of the Bajaur district of the province, said a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the army’s media […]
Over two million tourists have visited the Philippines since February, raking in over $1.76 billion in revenue, Philippine Tourism Secretary, Christina Frasco, said on Tuesday. The Department of Tourism (DOT) said 2,025,421 visitors arrived in the Philippines as of Nov. 14. DOT data showed that 1,487,343 or 73.43 per cent of the total tourist arrivals […]
India registered 474 new daily COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the Federal Health Ministry said. The cases reported marked a decrease in comparison to the daily caseload of Monday’s 547. The ministry has issued conflicting reports about the number of active cases in the country. According to data released by the government, the active caseload stands […]
The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has deregistered 17 political parties following their failure to comply with laws governing political parties in the country. The EC announced the decision in a statement on Monday, saying the certificates of the affected parties have been cancelled since Nov. 1. It explained that none of the 17 political […]
The perpetrator of Sunday’s deadly bomb attack which killed six people and injured 81 others here has been arrested by police, said Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu early Monday. “`The person who carried out the attack and left the bomb was detained by the teams of our Istanbul Police Department,” the state-run Anadolu agency quoted […]