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WorldTags: Print EditionSWITZERLAND: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said it would hold an emergency meeting next week to determine if the Monkeypox outbreak should be classified as a public health emergency of…

WorldThe North Korean military conducts a missile test from a railway car.Tags: Print EditionKOREA: North Korea may have spent as much as $642 million on its nuclear programme last year, according to anti-nuclear activists, as the…

WorldTags: Print EditionIndia talked tough in Geneva. Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal in his remarks at the closed-door session at the 12th ministerial conference touched on the spiralling food inflation and the need…

WorldTags: Print EditionThe first-ever India-EU Security and Defence Consultations took place on June 10 in Brussels where both sides agreed to “increase India-EU defence and security cooperation”, said the Embassy in Brussels in its…

WorldTags: Print EditionPAKISTAN: Pakistan has urged its countrymen to cut down the consumption of tea to help reduce the import bill eating into the country’s foreign exchange reserves. The appeal from Federal Minister for Planning…

WorldWomen walk next to a thermometer displaying 47 Celsius degrees (116.6 Fahrenheit degrees) during the first heatwave of the year in Seville, Spain on Tuesday.Tags: Print EditionSPAIN: Spain is currently in the middle of the worst…

WorldMichael Packard returned to work just three weeks after ending up in the mouth of a humpback whale.Tags: Print EditionUS: A man from the United States has recalled how he nearly died last year, after being swallowed by a giant…

WorldTags: Print EditionRUSSIA: Russia’s Gazprom said on Tuesday that it would limit natural gas supply via the Nord Stream pipeline to Germany by 40 percent compared to planned flows because of a delay in equipment repairs, sending…

WorldPeople cross a street amid smoggy conditions.Tags: Print EditionUS: Microscopic air pollution caused mostly by burning fossil fuels shortens lives worldwide by more than two years, researchers reported Tuesday. Across South Asia,…

WorldTags: Print EditionSWITZERLAND: The World Health Organisation is weighing an official name change for Monkeypox, in light of concerns about stigma and racism surrounding the virus that has infected almost 1,300 people in more than…