
Iran woos Chinese, other tourists as Westerners stay away.
Western tourists, who flocked to Iran just a few years ago, are being advised by their governments to stay away, forcing the Islamic republic’s struggling tourism industry.

Western tourists, who flocked to Iran just a few years ago, are being advised by their governments to stay away, forcing the Islamic republic’s struggling tourism industry.

Clothes and other items donated for earthquake victims in Türkiye and Syria were burned in a suspected arson attack in Western Germany, authorities have said.

Poland will send a new batch of aid supplies to quake-stricken Türkiye, the Turkish ambassador said Tuesday.

Spain’s Foreign Ministry released a statement Tuesday condemning the Israeli government’s decision to retrospectively authorize nine West Bank settlements and build 10,000 new homes on occupied Palestinian land.

A rapidly expanding artificial intelligence programme called ChatGPT has received plaudits for its capacity to write responses quickly to a wide range of inquiries and has grabbed the attention of US politicians with concerns about its effects on national security and education.

In an effort to defuse a developing diplomatic crisis with Beijing, the White House stated on Tuesday that preliminary data indicates three unidentified aerial objects shot down by US jets were not part of a larger Chinese spy balloon programme.

Nikki Haley, a former US ambassador to the UN, declared on Tuesday that she is running for president, making her the first well-known person to take on her former employer Donald Trump for the Republican nomination.

Cagdas Cankaya, a well-known Turkish actor, and his wife, Zilan Tigris, perished in the recent terrible earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria.

State media has announced that Saudi Arabia will send its first female astronaut on a space mission later this year, the latest step in the country’s effort to shed its notoriously conservative reputation.

BEIJING: After the US military shot down what it claims was a Chinese spy balloon, China announced on Monday that US high-altitude balloons had crossed its territory without authorization more than ten times since the start of 2022. This widened a diplomatic rift.

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) despatched one additional relief consignment via a PIA flight on Sunday to continue providing aid to Turkiye’s earthquake-affected regions.

It was the second such occurrence in North American skies after the dramatic downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon a week ago when a US fighter jet shot down an unidentified item above Canada on Saturday