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Stockholm hosts Nobel Prize award ceremony 2022
Stockholm [Sweden], December 11: The Nobel Prize award ceremony was held on Saturday in the Swedish capital.
Portuguese parliament approves legalization of euthanasia
Lisbon [Portugal], December 10: The Portuguese parliament on Friday approved the legalization of "medically assisted death."
Netherlands plans to build 2 nuclear power plants
The Hague [Netherlands],December 10: The Dutch government announced on Friday a plan to build two new nuclear power plants by...
Industrial output declines in Finland in October
Helsinki [Finland], December 10: Industrial output adjusted for working days in Finland in October fell year on year by 0.6...
Swedish households slash electricity consumption due to high...
Stockholm [Sweden], December 10: Swedish households decreased their electricity consumption considerably in September, October, and November according to figures released...
Italy unveils program to develop next-generation fighter aircraft
Rome [Italy], December 10: Italy, Britain, and Japan on Friday unveiled the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP), a joint initiative...
Chinese books introduced to Bulgaria at book fair
Sofia [Bulgaria], December 10: Several Bulgarian publishing houses presented a series of Bulgarian version of Chinese books, including "The Book...
U.S. former officer sentenced for state charge in...
Washington [US],December 10: A former police officer in Minneapolis of the U.S. state of Minnesota was sentenced on Friday for...
Gold rises on higher than expected inflation data
Chicago [US], December 10: Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose on Friday as...
U.S. consumer sentiment ticks up in December
Washington [US], December 10: U.S. consumer sentiment climbed to a preliminary reading of 59.1 in December, a jump from the...
U.S. stocks drop after hotter-than-expected PPI data
New York [US], December 10: Wall Street's major averages pulled back on Friday after U.S. producer inflation for November came...
U.S. reports over 25,000 weekly flu hospitalizations
Los Angeles [US], December 10: More than 25,000 people were hospitalized due to flu in the United States in the...
Canada approves first bivalent COVID-19 booster for children...
Ottawa [Canada], December 10: Health Canada on Friday authorized the Pfizer-BioNTechComirnaty Omicron BA.4/BA.5 bivalent-adapted booster for use in children 5...
Oil prices settle lower to post around 11...
New York [US], December 10: Oil prices decreased on Friday as demand worries linger.
Malaysia's unemployment falls to lowest in October since...
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], December 10: Malaysia's unemployment fell to the lowest level since the COVID-19 pandemic in October, reaching 602,000...
Myanmar reports 19 new COVID-19 cases
Yangon [Myanmar], December 10: Myanmar confirmed 19 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to...
Indonesia inaugurates new autonomous region of Southwest Papua
Jakarta [Indonesia], December 10: Indonesia inaugurated a new autonomous region in the country's easternmost island of Papua on Friday, bringing...
Over 1,300 houses in Sri Lanka damaged by...
Colombo [Sri Lanka], December 10: Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Center (DMC) said on Friday that over 1,300 houses in various...
Chinese scholarships program launched in Myanmar
Yangon [Myanmar],December 10: The Bank of China (BOC) scholarships and grants program was launched in Myanmar's commercial city of Yangon...
Uzbekistan's population exceeds 36 mln
Tashkent [Uzbekistan], December 10: Uzbekistan's population has surpassed 36 million, increasing by a million over the past year, the Uzbek...
5.6-magnitude quake hits 2 km NE of Pondaguitan,...
New York [US], December 10: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 jolted 2 km NE of Pondaguitan, the Philippines,...
S. Korea, U.S. to hold economic cooperation talks...
Seoul (South Korea), December 9: Senior diplomats of South Korea and the United States will hold economic talks in Washington,...
Yoon hosts dinner for nat'l football team
Seoul (South Korea), December 9: President Yoon Suk-yeol hosted a dinner for the national football team on Thursday, saying...
S. Korea's new COVID-19 cases over 60,000 for...
Seoul (South Korea), December 9: South Korea's new COVID-19 cases continued their weekly climb Friday, as the government mulls adjusting...
Malaria cases, deaths remain stable in 2021: WHO
Geneva (Switzerland), December 9: The global number of malaria cases and deaths generally remained stable in 2021, thanks to redoubled...
M23 kills 131 civilians in eastern DRC: UN
United Nations, December 9: In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last week, M23 rebels killed at least...
Israel's Netanyahu asks president to extend mandate to...
Jerusalem (Israel), December 9: Israeli former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday asked President Isaac Herzog for an extension of...