Kitagawa is Japanese, Robson was born in Britain but moved to Australia in his late 20s, while Yaghi is Jordanian-American.

The aim of the PMDA was to dispose of the weapons-grade plutonium by converting it into safer forms.

President Rajoelina fired his cabinet last week in a bid to quell the unrest, appointing a new prime minister and announcing plans for a national dialogue due to commence on Wednesday afternoon.

Trump expressed optimism about progress toward a deal on Tuesday, the second anniversary of Hamas’ attack on Israel that triggered Israel's assault on Gaza.

Hundreds of hikers were stranded in deep snow over the weekend in the isolated Karma valley after an unusually powerful blizzard dumped heavy snowfall in the region.

Heavy rainfall has caused widespread flooding and landslides across India’s Himalayan region this week.

Russia’s 2025 gains would amount to nearly 1 percent of Ukraine's land area, and the country controls nearly 20 percent in total.

Thunberg told a news conference in Stockholm that she and others were “kidnapped and tortured” by the Israeli military.

Several countries, including Australia and some in Europe, have taken or are considering measures to curb social media use among minors.

Papua New Guinea straddles the Pacific's “Ring of Fire”, a region known for frequent earthquakes.

Quantum technology is already ubiquitous, with transistors in computer microchips an everyday example.

France’s current political crisis, its deepest since the creation in 1958 of the Fifth Republic, its modern system of government, dates to June of last year.

Trump’s H-1B visa crackdown reshapes India’s marriage market as families rethink marrying children to US-based NRIs.

Israel and Hamas have both endorsed the overall principles behind Trump’s plan, under which fighting would cease, hostages go free and aid pour into Gaza.

The lawyer on Monday approached the raised platform where Gavai was sitting and had to be stopped by security personnel as he prepared to throw an object at him.

For von der Leyen also faced a no-confidence motion in July from mainly far-right lawmakers, which she comfortably survived.

Iran has accused the pair of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence service.

French politics has become increasingly unstable since Macron’s re-election in 2022 for want of any party or grouping holding a parliamentary majority.

The winners for medicine are selected by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute medical university.

Medvedev played down the theory that recent disruption was the result of any actions connected to Russia or forces sympathising with it.