Agency Report

Manchester (UK): Tottenham Hotspur continued their impressive recent Premier League record at Manchester City with a 2-0 win on Saturday as Joao Palhinha took advantage of a goalkeeping blunder by …

New York:  A top UN official, Martha Pobee, on Friday told the Security Council that efforts to bring peace to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had not yielded the …

New York: UN agencies, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) have warned that extreme heat is fast becoming one of the biggest threats to workers’ …

New York:  The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said it’s time to end corporal punishment of kids, as over half of all children under-18 worldwide continue to experience corporal punishment …

Addis Ababa:  A team of researchers working in Ethiopia’s Afar Region has announced the discovery of a previously unknown species of Australopithecus alongside the oldest confirmed remains of the Homo …

Warsaw: Polish police said they have broken up an international drug trafficking network, seizing around 800 kilograms of narcotics with an estimated street value of 236 million euros (275.7 million …

Moscow: Russian politicians have ridiculed European leaders following the White House meeting on the Ukraine war. Former Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, called it “anti-Russian warmongering Coalition of the Willing” and …

Copenhagen:  A historic wooden church in northern Sweden is being moved 5 kilometres down the road as part of the relocation of the mining town of Kiruna. It is where …

Beijing: The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the Yuan, weakened 37 pips to 7.1359 against the dollar on Tuesday. This is according to the China Foreign …

New York: Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Martha Pobee, on Monday lamented the deteriorating security and humanitarian conditions in South Sudan. Referencing the recent quarterly report from the Secretary-General on challenges …