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Witnesses in Bangkok said people ran out onto the streets in panic, many of them hotel guests in bathrobes and swimming costumes as water cascaded down from an elevated pool at a luxury hotel.

Prosecutors last month indicted Yoon after accusing him of leading an insurrection with his short-lived imposition of martial law on December 3, 2024.

Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party won 48 of the 70 seats in the Delhi capital district.

Yoon's conservative People Power Party called the court's decision to extend his detention on Sunday a "great pity".

The earthquake's epicentre was about 80 km (50 miles) north of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. Tremors also shook buildings in neighbouring Nepal, Bhutan and India.

Insurrection is one of the few criminal charges from which a South Korean president does not have immunity.

Choi told a disaster management meeting in Seoul that the top priority for now is identifying the victims, supporting their families and treating the two survivors.

Jeju Air CEO Kim E-bae apologised for the accident, bowing deeply during a televised briefing.

Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

Under the constitution, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who was appointed by Yoon, becomes acting president.

The Rohingya, a mainly Muslim group that is the world's largest stateless population, started fleeing in droves to Bangladesh in 2016 to escape what the United Nations has called a genocide at the hands of Buddhist-majority Myanmar's military.

In October, she accused Marcos of incompetence and said she had imagined cutting the president's head off.

India and China went to war over their border, which has been disputed since they established diplomatic ties in the 1950s.

The plan has faced public criticism on concern over any related hazards, the Soviet nuclear testing legacy, and fears that Russia will be involved in the project.

On Thursday, President Xi Jinping is expected to pitch plugging into China's burgeoning green energy industry to leaders from Gambia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

"I have listened to the people on the ground and they are in support of Raila Odinga's candidature," the DP said.

"Politics cannot function without public trust," Kishida said in a press conference on Wednesday to announce his decision not to seek re-election

Around 300 people died in the demonstrations that began as protests against employment quotas but spiralled into a movement seeking Hasina's overthrow.

Abbas Araghchi is a seasoned pragmatist diplomat who was the chief negotiator in nuclear talks between Tehran and world powers from 2013 to 2021.

Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan resigned, the law ministry's adviser Asif Nazrul said in a Facebook video post, after students warned him of "dire consequences" if he did not.

Muhammad Yunus was appointed to the post by Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin after he held meetings with student leaders and chiefs of the three military services.

Her iron-fisted grasp on power has been challenged since summer by protests triggered by a court ruling to reserve government jobs - heavily coveted amid high youth unemployment - for certain segments of the population.

Bangladesh's army chief will meet student protest leaders on Tuesday as the country awaits the formation of a new government a day after PM Hasina resigned and fled the country following a violent uprising against her rule.

Student leaders, who spearheaded a movement against job quotas that turned into a call for Hasina to resign, said that they want a new interim government with Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus as its chief adviser.

The United Nations is following the situation in Bangladesh very closely after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country on Monday.

Organisers said the protests would draw over two million people onto the streets to demand more action from President Nana Akufo-Addo on corruption and living conditions, as well as to protest delays in signing an anti-LGBT bill into law.

At least 79 people have been killed in the flooding, which has inundated farms and residential areas and displaced thousands.

Modi, who started as a publicist of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is only the second person after independence leader Jawaharlal Nehru to serve a third straight term as prime minister.

Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party lost its outright majority in parliament in a surprise election verdict.

Should Narendra Modi secure a third term as PM, one of his priorities will be improving incomes.

Most exit polls projected the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) could win a two-thirds majority in the 543-member lower house of parliament, where 272 is needed for a simple majority.

Beijing is also expected to pass new rules this year for the labelling of genetically modified crops used in food products.

The system provides effective protection of valuable assets and first-class defence for forces located in the combat area. 

"The conflict has already pushed an additional 1.74 million people into poverty."

One of the choppers was seen clipping the rear rotor of another helicopter, causing both to go into a tailspin and crash.

This was the heaviest recorded rainfall in UAE in a 24-hour period since 1949.

Approximately Sh2.19 trillion has been spent on different African development projects

Food scraps are thrown into the machine where they are slowly mixed with rice husks and sawdust for 48 hours.

An elite Kenyan police unit is already on trial, charged with wrongful death, following the killing of Arshad Sharif in October 2022. 

This is the first time the UN Human Rights Council is taking a position on the escalating war.

Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a warning for tsunami waves as high as three metres (10 feet).

The fresh ICJ order also calls on Israel, as a signatory to the Genocide Convention, to undertake those measures, “including by increasing the capacity and number of land crossing points."

The 1948 Genocide Convention, enacted in the wake of the mass murder of Jews in the Nazi Holocaust, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".

Ali Gholampour, Iran's ambassador to Kenya, said the release of the detainees was a sign of Somalia's readiness to thaw diplomatic relations after years of stagnation.

The December hijacking of the ship was the first time since 2017 that any cargo vessel had been successfully boarded by Somali pirates.

Taliban authorities have repeatedly dismissed such international criticism as propaganda.

AlMatrooshi, who wears a hijab as part of her Muslim faith, explained that NASA developed a strategy to allow her to keep her hair covered while donning the agency's iconic white space suit and helmet.

Newly sworn-in lawmakers in Pakistan's National Assembly elected Shehbaz by 201 votes, three weeks after national elections marred by widespread allegations of rigging.

Its new session which began on Monday is the longest ever, running until April, and promises a packed agenda, with ongoing wars in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine.

A key focus on the agenda is the increase in wasteful and fuel-intensive plastics, a major contributor to the climate crisis.

This agreement grants Ankara the right to receive 30 per cent of the marine resources in exchange for securing the country's coastline.

Foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki underscored the ongoing denial of rights to seven million refugees, noting their inability to return to their lands and homes.

A total of 127 people died in 24 hours, Hamas-run Gaza's health ministry said, as the main battlefront edged closer to far-southern Rafah, where 1.4 million Palestinians live

Nearly 205 million people are eligible to vote in the polls across 800,000 polling stations with 20,000 seats up for grabs.

CIA Director William Burns was due in Cairo Tuesday for a new round of talks on a Qatari-brokered ceasefire proposal that would temporarily halt fighting in exchange for Hamas freeing hostages.

The US-owned F-35 parts are stored at a warehouse in the Netherlands and then shipped to several partners, including Israel, via existing export agreements.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the challenging conditions aid workers are facing as they strive to assist in extremely difficult circumstances.

The organisations note the absence of meaningful action by Alice Wairimu Nderitu's office in response to sustained mass atrocities endured by Palestinians in Gaza.

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani earlier accused the United States and Britain of "fuelling chaos, disorder, insecurity and instability" by supporting Israel.

Hassan met representatives from the UAE, Qatar, Turkiye, the UN, UK and the US, countries which form the Somalia Quint Group.

The verdict, a week before national elections, comes a day after he was given a prison sentence of 10 years in a case related to leaking state secrets.

President Wavel Ramkalawan says Seychellois special military forces took complete control of the vessel and rescued all on board.

Israel's ensuing military offensive has killed at least 26,422 people, most of them civilians, in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory.

The countries are the US, Australia, Britain, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Switzerland. They have welcomed investigation into the allegations that some UNRWA staff took part in Hamas's October 7 attack.

A number of donor countries -- including Australia, Britain, Finland, Germany and Italy -- on Saturday followed the lead of the United States in suspending additional funding to UNRWA.

Guterres called for reform of the UN Security Council, saying it is paralysed by geopolitical divisions while its composition does not reflect the reality of today’s world.

Spokeswoman Tess Ingram, back from a recent visit to the Gaza Strip, described mothers bleeding to death and one nurse who had performed emergency caesareans on six dead women.

As the risk of famine grows, and more people are exposed to deadly disease outbreaks, a fundamental step change in the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza is urgently needed, UN humanitarian agencies say.

Eleven people were killed in November in an accident at another coal mine in the same province.

The East African trade bloc Igad said Thursday it will meet January 18 in Uganda to discuss the tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia.

Two brothers, their wives and six children aged 12 and under were killed along with a guest in the Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Nearly one billion Indians will be called on to vote in April-May when the world's most populous nation goes to the polls.

Residents of Noto region were urged to evacuate immediately to higher ground

The UN says more than 85 per cent of Gaza's 2.4 million people have fled their homes.

The President discussed the establishment of India Exim Bank’s regional headquarters in Kenya with its Managing Director Harsha Bangari.

Ruto will hold bilateral discussions with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi with discussions spanning areas of agriculture, trade and investment promotion as well as forging healthcare partnerships.

Globally, 9.2 million people do not have access to treatment while 1,700 people die each day from HIV-related causes.

As the Chair of the Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change, Ruto is set to deliver a statement on behalf of Africa, highlighting the continent's priorities.

World leaders are meeting from 30 November to 12 December, to chart an ambitious way forward in the global fight against climate change.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimate the population of Sumatran rhinos to number less than 80 on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo.

President Ruto said the Global South must take advantage of the democratic character of multilateralism to push for meaningful changes.

Applicants who have already completed online appointments will be given priority for submitting their documents within the corresponding time slot at the appointment date by presenting the confirmation page upon arrival.

The blue and white UN flag was lowered at 9:30 am local time at offices in Bangkok, Tokyo and Beijing, a day after the world body reported "a significant number of deaths and injuries" in strikes on a facility in Gaza.

The Israeli construction industry plans to hire Indian workers to replace Palestinian employees.

PM 2.5 particles, if inhaled, can have serious health risks, linked to premature deaths in people with heart or lung disease, as well as a host of breathing and other health issues.

He had a heart attack on Thursday and passed away in Shanghai just after midnight, state-run news agency Xinhua said.

The Shenzhou-17 blasted off from the Jiuquan launch site in arid northwest China at 11:14 am (0314 GMT), carrying a three-astronaut team with the youngest average age since the space station's construction.