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Stockholm hosts Nobel Prize award ceremony 2022

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

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

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

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 cost

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

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

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 death of George Floyd

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

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

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

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

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 ages 5 to 11

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 pct weekly loss

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 COVID-19 pandemic

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

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

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 cyclonic storm Mandous

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

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

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, Philippines: USGS

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 in Washington next week

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

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 4th day as virus continues to spread

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

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

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 form gov't

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...