PARIS, Feb 6, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Last month was the hottest January on record, Europe's climate monitor said Thursday, despite expectations that cooler La Nina conditions might quell a streak of ...

NIAMEY, Niger, Feb 6, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Niger's army said Wednesday that 10 soldiers died in an "ambush" in the western Tillaberi region near Burkina Faso, where authorities have been battling a ...

HONG KONG, Feb 6, 2025 BSS/AFP) - Asian markets rose Thursday, tracking gains on Wall Street and following the US Postal Service's U-turn on a ban on parcels from China and Hong Kong, though trade war ...

ISTANBUL, Feb 6, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Turkey on Thursday commemorates the second anniversary of the February 6, 2023 earthquake, which claimed nearly 60,000 lives including in neighbouring Syria and ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India, Feb 6, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - For millions of Hindu pilgrims at India's millennia-old vast Kumbh Mela festival, the culmination of their journey is ritual bathing in the holy waters where ...

WELLINGTON, Feb 6, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Bare-chested Maori bellowed haka chants Thursday to mark New Zealand's national day, holding spirited ceremonies as critics accuse the government of eroding ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 6, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The United States said Wednesday that its government vessels would be allowed to sail for ...