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Ten Burundian peacekeepers were killed in a ferocious attack by Al-Shabaab jihadists on an African Union base in Somalia, Burundi's army said Wednesday, the deadliest targeting AU forces in the country since 2015.
Activity in India's dominant services sector grew at its fastest pace in five months in April on strong demand, prompting firms to add jobs for the first time since November, a private survey showed, but sky-rocketing inflation remained a major concern. The S&P Global India Services Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 57.9 in April from 53.6 in March, its highest since November and surpassing the 54.0 estimate in a Reuters poll. "In isolation, the PMI data for the service sector were mostly encouraging, as surging demand underpinned quicker increases in new business inflows and output," noted Pollyanna De Lima, economics associate director at S&P Global.
Madelyn Ocasio can hardly believe the good news. At 66, the anti-abortion activist from the outskirts of Miami hopes her dream of seeing the US Supreme Court roll back half a century of abortion rights is finally about to come true.
The Reserve Bank of India's monetary policy committee raised the key lending rate by 40 basis points on Wednesday, in a surprise move, as it sought to take timely and calibrated steps to exit the extraordinary accommodation and contain rapid inflation. The MPC raised the key lending rate or the repo rate by 40 basis points to 4.40%, Governor Shaktikanta Das said in a virtual address announcing the decision after an off-cycle meeting of the committee on May 2 and May 4.
The Covid-19 pandemic killed 13.3 to 16.6 million people in 2020 and 2021, says the World Health Organization - up to triple the number of deaths attributed directly to the disease. The WHO's long-awaited estimate of the total number of deaths caused by the pandemic -- including lives lost to its knock-on effects -- finally puts a number on the broader impact of the crisis.
Iraq is yet again covered in a thick sheet of orange as it suffers the latest in a series of dust storms, killing one person and sending more than 5,000 to hospital with respiratory ailments. Iraq was hammered by a series of such storms in April, grounding flights and leaving dozens hospitalised with respiratory problems.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his wife Ho Ching will be receiving top awards in Johor during their visit to the Malaysian state on Friday (6 May).
An Italian surgeon once hailed for pioneering windpipe surgery but now charged with assault told a Swedish court Thursday the experimental procedures were the result of "teamwork" and that he just wanted to save lives.
Volunteers from Syria's Violet Org charity's psychological support unit organise games based on the video game Super Mario, during Eid al-Fitr celebrations for displaced children at a camp in the village of Killi in the Syrian rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib.
One of Colombia's most notorious drug lords was extradited Wednesday to the United States to face drug trafficking charges.
People protest in reaction to the leak of the US Supreme Court draft abortion ruling on May 3, 2022 in New York
Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell on Wednesday announced a half-point interest rate hike
Top seed Novak Djokovic described his straight-sets opening win over Gael Monfils in Madrid on Tuesday as his "best performance of the year" as he set up a showdown with Andy Murray.
It's spring planting season in Ukraine, but this year farmers require more than fuel and fertiliser –- they also need flak jackets and deminers to destroy the bombs that have already killed or maimed others in their fields.
China’s Communist Youth League, a cradle for generations of Communist Party leaders, has embraced NFTs to mark its 100th anniversary. On Wednesday, the organisation issued 54,000 of the centenary NFTs for free, but labelled them “digital collectibles” as Beijing officially bans cryptocurrencies. They featured the league’s official mascot tuanbao, a white, round animated face with two communist stars on the head. The NFTs, built on the blockchain developed by Hangzhou Shunwang Technology, were al
Amnesty International on Wednesday accused a powerful government-backed Libyan armed group of abuses against migrants and Tripoli residents.
India's prime minister on Thursday urged states and federally administered territories to prepare heat action plans, as south Asia swelters under extreme temperatures. India recorded its warmest March in over a century, with the maximum temperature across the country reaching 33.1 degrees Celsius, nearly 1.86 degrees above normal, according to the India Meteorological Department. In a meeting with federal officials on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told authorities to take measures to avoid deaths due to heat waves and fire incidents, according to a statement issued by his office.
For Gujarat Titans captain Hardik Pandya, Tuesday's defeat by Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League will go down as a batting experiment gone wrong. After Pandya chose to bat, Punjab restricted table-toppers Gujarat to 143-8 and then chased down the target with four overs to spare for an eight-wicket victory. With bowlers struggling to grip the ball in the second innings of evening matches because of the dew, Pandya's decision was baffling but the all-rounder had no regrets.