SEOUL - North Korea appears to have tested a hypersonic weapon capable of evading missile defences and proving difficult to track and intercept,...
IRAN - Iranian airlines cancelled some international flights on Wednesday after the US tightened sanctions...
SRI LANKA - A Sri Lankan court is set to rule on 24 people accused of plotting the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attacks that killed 270 people and injured more than 500.
RUSSIA - Russia said on Tuesday that the European Union should remove all Russians from its sanctions list, as EU nations discuss ending measures against oligarchs Alisher...
JAPAN - Four people have died in Japan after Typhoon Dujuan battered Tokyo and surrounding prefectures with torrential rains and destructive winds, local reports said.
UK - A 65-year-old doctor has appeared in court, the first person in the UK to be charged over the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
PARAMARIBO - The H5 bird flu was recently detected at a poultry farm in the Wanica District where about 6,000 chickens were being raised. Reported indicate that more than half of these chickens died in the past two weeks.
MAROWIJNE - 44 people who were convicted of a traffic violation were caught at a traffic stop in Albina last...
SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test of a "new-type weapon" system, touting it as evidence of the country's advancing military technology, state media...
TURKEY - A teenager opened fire outside a high school in Turgutlu, in western Turkey's Manisa province, around 8:00 am Tuesday, wounding 11 students—two seriously—before...
US - CNN, Politico and MS NOW have said they will sue the Trump administration after the three US media outlets were barred from the White House. President Donald Trump...
AFGHANISTAN – “Pakistani bombardment killed three civilians in eastern Afghanistan”, Taliban authorities said Monday, while Islamabad claimed its forces targeted "terrorist...
US - Protesters gathered in Austin on Sunday after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and wounded a man in the Texas capital. Wilber Rafael...
MIAMI/PARAMARIBO - A shipment that was supposed to leave Miami for Suriname has triggered an investigation into arms trafficking.
PARAMARIBO – The management team at the Johan Adolf Pengel (JAP) international Airport recently urged travelers to stick to the special rules...
PARAMARIBO – The Ministry of Agriculture, Stock Breeding and Fisheries (LVV) has noticed an unusually high mortality...
RUSSIA - Vladimir Putin's United Russia party secured a record supermajority in Russia's Duma, winning 355 of 450 seats in a tightly controlled three-day election, electoral chief...
SAUDI ARABIA - The United States warned that fighting between Saudi Arabia and Iran-backed Houthis could "escalate rapidly" after a missile attack targeted Riyadh for the first...
CARIBBEAN - The US military announced Saturday that it had killed four people on a boat it said was involved in drug smuggling in the Caribbean. "Confirmed intelligence revealed the...
RUSSIA - At least two people have been killed and six injured in a "massive" overnight Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region, Governor Andrei Vorobyev has said.
PHILIPPINES - Tribal leader Petronila Munoz is uncertain about her community's future as a US-led tech hub takes shape on the Philippine grasslands her Aeta Hungry tribe has...
US - US President Donald Trump cut short a weekend at Camp David to return unexpectedly to the White House on Saturday, as tensions rose in the Middle East.
SAUDI-ARABIË - The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Houthis said Saturday that the Iran-backed group fired a ballistic missile at Riyadh at dawn, after a fire broke out near the...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong officials and the public commemorated the city's first post-colonial leader, Tung Chee-hwa, at his funeral on Sunday, AFP journalists saw.
COPENHAGEN - Denmark hailed a "binding" deal announced by US President Donald Trump granting Washington "permanent control" over Greenland's security and barring...
NIGERIA - Families of some of the people who died in a Nigerian paramilitary civil defence force holding cell, on Saturday demanded justice as the government appointed an...
MOSCOW – US President Donald Trump has signed into law a sweeping sanctions package targeting Russia over its war in Ukraine, days after Congress sent the bill to the White House with rare bipartisan support.
PARAMARIBO – The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (LVV) has observed an increased number of deaths among chickens at a poultry farm. According to the Livestock Directorate,...
NEW YORK – Google's AI model Gemini autonomously hacked into three companies during a test of its cyber-security capabilities, the company has said, in what is thought to be the first known...
COMMEWIJNE – Less than 2 days after the government officially introduced the new list of fines for environment violations people are still...
has reportedly decided to put the 15% raise on hold for state officials and Members of Parliament...
PARAMARIBO – The 6 members of the board of directors at the Telecommunication Authority Suriname (TAS) recently made it clear at a press conference that they...
NORTH KOREA – The North Korean Foreign Ministry has dismissed a resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that criticises Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme. The ministry said on...
ISRAEL – An Israeli air strike on a motorcycle has killed one Palestinian and injured others, with one child in critical condition, according to Palestinian media reports. The attack targeted the vehicle in the Sheikh...
Jiri Lehecka heeft vrijdag Tsjechië op gelijke hoogte gebracht in het Davis Cup-kwalificatieduel tegen de Verenigde Staten. Lehecka versloeg US Open-finalist Ben Shelton...
CEUTA - Police have begun moving hundreds of migrants in Ceuta to a new tented site in the port area of the Spanish territory in north Africa.
BRAZIL - Indigenous chief Wagner Karipuna worries as he watches the calm river beside his village in the Brazilian Amazon,...
MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities said on Thursday they discovered 59 million liters (15.6 million gallons) of suspected illicit gasoline and diesel in the country's...
PARAMARIBO - Justice and Safety Minister Harish Monorath recently installed ten workers from the...
PARAMARIBO – Reports indicate that the government has taken steps aimed at keeping nurses in Suriname. For the past couple of years a growing number of nurses has left Suriname to...
PAKISTAN - An explosion at the historic Old Police Lines headquarters in Kohat, a town of about 220,000 in Pakistan's northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province,...
