Islamabad is getting ready to host talks on Friday between the United States and Iran on a resolution to the war and the Strait of Hormuz, which remains at a standstill despite the ceasefire.
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos emphasized Africa's unique opportunity to transition to low-carbon industrial growth by leveraging its abundant renewable energy resources, at the 2026 International Vienna Energy and Climate Forum.
ALMATY, April 10 - Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the president of Kazakhstan, said on Friday that a parliamentary election in the resource-rich Central Asian country would take place in August, but stopped short of naming an exact date.
More Indian professionals are returning home, drawn by strong growth in startups and tech, as tighter immigration policies and rising costs overseas reshape career choices.
The World Bank has lowered Indonesia’s economic growth forecast to 4.7 per cent, down from 4.8 per cent it projected in October last year, citing external pressures including higher global oil prices and increased investor caution.
Living with friends may quietly be altering your gut bacteria, according to a new study from the University of East Anglia. Research on a colony of tiny island birds reveals they share more of their gut bacteria with the birds they spend the most time with. And the team says
The winner of this year's Golden Bear award intriguingly (and frustratingly) reflects the politically-charged tensions which plagued 2026's Berlin Film Festival.
The wolf Neukgu appeared to have slipped out of the zoo by burrowing under a fence.
Donald Trump has been raging at Marjorie Taylor Greene a lot lately. Why? Because improbably, Greene has emerged as a very effective critic of the president. In a striking CNN interview , Greene unloaded, declaring bluntly that Trump is mentally unfit for the presidency, that
Beijing urged Iran to accept a ceasefire, but it hasn’t agreed to act as a guarantor of the deal in America’s messy war.
New and emerging Brazilian directors to track – Jô Serfaty, Thais Fujinaga and filmmaking duo Maju de Paiva and Bernardo Florim – feature at this year’s Festival do Rio Goes to Cannes, a pix-in-post showcase teasing films coming out of Brazil after its Oscar and Golden Globes
Donald Trump could intervene to settle many of these clashes, but he has mostly kept his distance.
US President told NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte that NATO countries must work on a solution to resolve the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz immediately. Allies had originally committed to helping reopen the strait once hostilities had come to an end.
On diesel, he confirmed that subsidies would continue to prevent further inflationary pressure.
Popular U.S. voice actor Troy Baker (“The Last of Us”), Grammy-nominated video game composer Austin Wintory (“Journey,” “Assassin’s Creed Syndicate “) and Japanese manga magazine editor Kazuhiko Torishima — who has been instrumental to shepherding the “Dragon Ball” franchise —
Although late takeoffs are decreasing, aviation authorities warn that too many travellers are still experiencing delays.
Residents of Fleetwood say continuous foul smell from Transwaste site is making life hell and making them sick In the week that many families went to the coast for the fresh sea air or the tang of fish and chips, visitors to one Lancashire resort inhaled a rather more
The IMF is cutting its global growth forecast, preparing €42.9bn in emergency aid and warning that 45 million people face food insecurity.
The Artemis II astronauts conducted a historic lunar flyby, gathered invaluable data and took in unprecedented moon views, but one of the most crucial moments of their 10-day mission is still to come: Friday's splashdown.
The big risk for Beijing is that the Iran war drags down global demand for the exports that are driving China's economic growth.
While the Artemis II astronauts have been protected from the icy vacuum of space on their journey, their bodies have nonetheless been left exposed to possibly high levels of radiation—a danger of space travel that NASA is anxiously waiting to study.
Ever wondered what astronauts listen to in the mornings, 406,771 kilometers from Earth?
Vietnamese distributor Mockingbird Pictures has boarded “Zero Meets Hero,” the latest film from director Huynh Lap, and will present the title to international buyers at the Beijing International Film Festival as the company steps up its push to place Vietnamese commercial
US President Trump has issued an ultimatum to NATO countries to find a solution to reopening the Strait of Hormuz within days. Turkey – which has the second-largest army in NATO – says the alliance is not obliged to intervene.
Despite talk of convergence, the sides remain far apart: Iran is demanding a no-strike guarantee, sanctions relief and control over Hormuz, while the U.S. is pushing zero enrichment, missile limits and cuts to Iran's regional proxy network
The rock band will release their new album, Your Favorite Toy , later this month
Ms Takaichi has referred to Deep Purple as one of her favourite bands.
By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI, April 10 (Reuters) - Taiwanese officials are tracking what they view as a worrying rise in Chinese naval activity and military pressure against the island, even as Beijing presses a message of peace and cooperation in meetings with
SC Films International has acquired worldwide sales rights for “Fujiko,” the second feature from Japanese director Kimura Taichi, produced by Megumi, whose Netflix series “Badly in Love” broke records on the platform. The film assembles an ensemble cast led by Katayama Yuki,
The European Commission has proposed a new regulation to establish a standalone founding act for the European Union Space Services Agency, known as EUSPA. This legislative move renames the current Agency for the European Space Programme and amends the relevant parts in the
Moscow repeatedly ignored Kyiv’s calls for Easter weekend ceasefire around 12 April just to announce what it called its own “unilateral" truce.
Markets have remained positive, with oil prices edging slightly upward, coupled with gains for global equities ahead of the US-Iran talks in Islamabad on Saturday.
Gorillaz's new album, The Mountain , arrived last month
Commentators increasingly warn that the United States is losing its soft power – and the data backs them up. The Brand Finance Global Soft Power Index 2026 ranked the US as the steepest decliner among the 193 countries surveyed, with China now less than 1.5 points behind.
Taiwanese officials are tracking a rise in Chinese naval activity and military pressure against the island.
We all learn in school, or at least from our more rigorous choices of science fiction, that we’ll never be able to travel faster than the speed of light. At first, this may sound disappointing, but upon reflection, 186,000 miles per second is nothing to sneeze at. Questions
The shark-attack movie Thrash feels like a brainstorming session for sequels to the superior Crawl, but at least it moves quickly and efficiently.
Thousands of Indigenous people marched through Brasília on 9 April 2026 during the 22nd “Free Land Encampment”, urging authorities to recognise ancestral lands ahead of October’s elections.
The R&B singer's fifth album, Kehlani , is set to arrive on April 24
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The EU's top-level domain, .eu, marks two decades of providing European companies, organisations and citizens with the ability to give their websites and e-mail addresses a European identity. Europe's trusted digital address counts over 3.8 million active registrations. It
"His vision transformed the Bronx into the birthplace of a culture that now reaches every corner of the world," said American rapper and producer Kurtis Walker (aka Kurtis Blow), who heads labor advocacy group The Hip Hop Alliance.
At least 143 people have died in the outbreak since March 15, the most of them children.
Composer Shashwat Sachdev didn’t score two films. He scored one. When Sachdev sat down to work on the “Dhurandhar” films, there was no duology to speak of – just one sprawling script, one protagonist, one emotional arc. By the time the filmmakers decided during post-production
Licence to Eel. Octoguppy. I'm just brainstorming here.
Importers are in line for tariff refunds. But whether everyone who paid the for the tariffs will get money back is a trickier question.
Words matter in cross-strait politics. Every phrase is weighed, every omission noticed. So when Kuomintang (KMT) chairwoman Cheng Li-wun described “imperialist forces” as the cause of Taiwan’s separation from the mainland during her visit to China this week, something cracked
KYIV, April 10 (Reuters) - Ukraine is in talks with Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain to cooperate in the security sector and share its drone defence expertise and technology, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Zelenskiy visited several Middle Eastern countries last month to offer