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Custodian of the Kartarpur shrine Ramesh Singh Arora says Sikhs are very excited ahead of the opening of a corridor that will allow pilgrims to cross from India into Pakistan
World
08.08.2024
A corridor that will allow Sikhs to cross from India into Pakistan to visit one of the religion's holiest sites is set to open Saturday, with thousands expected to make a pilgrimage interrupted by decades of conflict. 
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks with cavalry soldiers in Germany near where he himself served during the Cold War
World
08.08.2024
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo retraced his steps Thursday in the eastern German village of Moedlareuth, once a divided "Little Berlin" where he served as a young army officer.
The rallies across Lebanon have created a rare moment of national unity in a country often characterised by its divisions
World
08.08.2024
Thousands of students took to the streets across Lebanon Thursday to demand a better future as anti-government protests now entering their fourth week continued to spread.
Nigerian soldiers have been caught up in a jihadist insurgency for more than a decade
World
08.08.2024
At least 10 Nigerian soldiers have been killed and nine severely injured in an ambush by suspected Boko Haram fighters in restive northeast Nigeria, military sources said Thursday.
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China's jailing of nine people Thursday for trafficking and selling fentanyl to US buyers followed a rare joint probe with US law enforcement
World 08.08.2024
The question of what, if any, responsibility China should bear for fuelling a deadly opioid crisis in the United States has been a bitter source of contention between the two superpowers.
Kiir (R) and Machar (L), have only met a handful of times since inking a September 2018 truce
World 08.08.2024
South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar will hold rare face-to-face talks Thursday in Uganda, their representatives said, as time runs out for the rivals to form a power-sharing government.
Each winter the post-harvest burning of crop stubble covers swaths of the region in toxic smog
World 08.08.2024
More than 80 farmers have been arrested in northern India for starting fires that contributed to the recent pollution crisis in New Delhi and other cities, officials said Thursday.
Chinese students in Britain have regularly taken part in rallies countering those held to support Hong Kong's democracy protest movement
World 08.08.2024
Beijing on Thursday criticised as "fictitious" a report by British politicians claiming there was "alarming evidence" of Chinese interference on university campuses.
Okinawa Zoo and Museum released photos of the types of stolen turtle including the rare Ryukyu leaf species
World 08.08.2024
More than 60 endangered turtles have disappeared from a zoo in Japan's southernmost province in a suspected theft, officials said Thursday.
Students and schoolchildren have joined the mass protests in Lebanese cities demanding better public education and more job opportunities for school leavers
World 08.08.2024
Thousands of students took to the streets across Lebanon Thursday to demand a better future as an unprecedented anti-government protest movement entered its fourth week and continued to spread.
FDJ, Europe's second-biggest betting company, came into being as the successor of a national lottery founded in 1933 to help soldiers disfigured in World War I and struggling farmers
World 08.08.2024
France's state-owned lottery monopoly kicked off its shift to private hands Thursday, opening the sale of shares in the company that is likely to bring nearly two billion euros ($2.2 billion) to government coffers.
Around 600 police officers calmly escorted the migrants off the makeshift camps
World 08.08.2024
French police began evacuating hundreds of migrants from camps in northern Paris on Thursday, a day after French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe vowed to "take back control" of immigration.
Casey Dean inspects a McDonald's burger he bought in 1995 with friend Eduards Nits and kept in an Australian shed for years
World 08.08.2024
A McDonald's burger bought in 1995 and kept in an Australian shed for years has never decomposed, according to two men who now refer to the quarter-century Quarter Pounder as their "mate".
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