Sarwar Kashani 
Sydney, Australia, Aug 9 (EFE).– Fourteen Pacific island countries and East Timor, among the world’s most vulnerable nations to natural disasters due to the climate crisis, will establish warehouses to store humanitarian supplies for disaster response. The initiative, called the Pacific Humanitarian Warehousing Program, is funded by Australia and New Zealand, the region’s largest countries, … Read more
By Moncho Torres Panama City, Aug 8 (EFE).- The head of the US Southern Command, General Laura Richardson, said in an interview with EFE that the solution to the crisis in Venezuela after the elections must be a democratic and not military one, and that could only be resolved transparently by publishing the results of … Read more
Jerusalem, Aug 8 (EFE).- Israeli forces announced on Thursday that they had killed senior Hamas official Nael Sakhl, who was involved in directing attacks in the West Bank. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that Sakhl was attacked during a joint operation with Shin Bet on July 24. Sakhl was involved in directing terrorist attacks in … Read more
Jerusalem/Washington, Aug 5 (EFE).- As regional tensions escalate, Hezbollah launched a barrage of drones targeting Israel on Monday with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warning of an imminent attack by Iran and its backed Shiite militia, urging immediate diplomatic action. Blinken alerted his G7 counterparts on Sunday about a potential attack by Iran and … Read more
By Amjad Ali Islamabad, Oct 6 (EFE).- The arrest of eight members of an organ trafficking syndicate in Pakistan last week has turned the spotlight on the continuing illegal trade of kidneys and other human organs in the impoverished nation of 240 million people, where the poor have often been led into selling their organs … Read more
London/Moscow, Aug 8 (EFE).- The United States and Russia’s Wagner mercenary group hurled accusations at each other on Tuesday over a deepening chaos in the coup-hit West African nation of Niger. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Russian mercenary group was capitalizing on Niger’s instability. His remarks in an interview with BBC followed … Read more
Minsk, June 11 (EFE) – Belarus supplied over 131,000 tons of ammunition to Russia in a year for its war in Ukraine, according to an investigation by the “Belarusian Gayun” monitoring group. The report, which is based on data collected by the Belarusian Railway Employees Community, concludes that the volume of ammunition transferred by the … Read more
Moscow, June 11 (EFE).- The head of Russia’s powerful mercenary group Wagner said Sunday that he would not sign any merger contract with the Russian defense ministry. Yevgeny Prigozhin has thus rejected Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s proposal to bring under his control the Wagner group that was highly effective in taking the Ukrainian city of … Read more
Paris, June 11 (EFE).- Serbia’s Novak Djokovic made history on Sunday by winning the French Open men’s singles final, his 23rd Grand Slam title and the most of any man in the history of tennis, defeating Norwegian challenger Casper Ruud 7-6(1), 6-3, 7-5. Djokovic, 36, thus becomes the first man to win at least three … Read more
Sydney, Australia, June 12 (EFE).- At least 10 people died and 25 were injured when the bus in which they were traveling overturned in the town of Greta, some 180 kilometers north of the city of Sydney, police reported Monday. The New South Wales Region Police said in a statement that the event occurred at … Read more
By Lobsang DS Subirana Bangkok, May 15 (EFE).- Thailand’s preliminary general election results Monday morning showed an overwhelming majority of the country chose to end nearly a decade of military-establishment rule, with reformists Move Forward party claiming an unexpected victory. But the complex task of forming a government under the nation’s military-drafted constitution began then … Read more
Washington, May 8 (EFE).- The White House said two days after a mass shooting at a shopping mall in Texas that left eight dead, including three children, that the United States is facing a crisis of gun violence. “It is the 128th day of 2023, and yesterday, according to leading counts, we witnessed the 201st … Read more