Lima, March 13 (IANS) Peru has declared a state of emergency in 283 districts to mitigate high risks and address the impact of intense rainfall on public safety, the official gazette El Peruano reported.According to several decrees published in the gazette on Thursday, the emergency measure will be in effect for 60 calendar days across 20 of Peru’s regions, including Lima, Amazonas, Ancash, Cusco and Arequipa.During the emergency period, regional and local governments, in coordination with the N…
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Jerusalem, March 8 (IANS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a live broadcast statement that Israel’s attack on Iran will continue with “full force and uncompromising momentum.”Israel has a well-prepared plan with many surprises to undermine “Iranian regime” and “enable change,” Netanyahu said on Saturday.Addressing the Iranian people, he said, “The moment of truth is approaching. We do not seek to divide Iran, but to liberate it and live with it in peace.”He condemned the United …
United Nations, March 7 (IANS) At least 1,332 Iranian civilians, including women and children, have been killed in US-Israeli airstrikes and thousands more injured, Iran’s UN ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani said.Over 180 children across the country have been killed and more than 20 schools have been damaged, Iravani told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, quoting the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Xinhua news agency reported.The United States and Israel have deliberately targeted civilia…
Washington, March 6 (IANS) The US State Department announced that the United States and Venezuela have agreed to re-establish diplomatic and consular relations.Venezuela severed diplomatic ties with the United States in January 2019 due to the latter’s continued interference in Venezuela’s internal affairs. All diplomatic personnel from the US embassy in Venezuela withdrew in March of the same year, Xinhua news agency reported.On January 3, US military forces launched a large-scale strike agains…
Melbourne, March 2 (IANS) Emergency warnings for life-threatening flash flooding have been issued for vast areas of the southeast Australian states of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW).The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) on Monday issued severe weather warnings for heavy and locally intense rainfall across regions in central and northern Victoria and south and southwestern NSW.It said that six-hourly rainfall totaling up to 100 mm was possible on Monday across the warning area spanning over 650 km …
Washington, Feb 22 (IANS) US President Donald Trump approved an emergency declaration for Washington, D.C., as a sewage line collapse and spill continued to tarnish the Potomac River.The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced in a press release that federal disaster assistance is available to the District of Columbia to supplement response efforts due to emergency conditions resulting from the sewage line collapse since January 19, Xinhua news agency reported.”The President’s actio…
Milan, Feb 20 (IANS) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Friday that Spanish basketball great Pau Gasol has been elected chair of the IOC Athletes’ Commission.Under the newly elected leadership team, Polish cyclist Maja Wloszczowska will continue as first vice-chair, while Kenyan rugby player Humphrey Kayange was elected second vice-chair. The commission has also created a third vice-chair position, to be filled by Canada’s Oluseyi Smith, a former athletics and bobsleigh athle…
Khartoum, Feb 15 (IANS) At least 12 people went missing after a boat carrying 16 passengers capsized in the Wad Al-Zaki area in central Sudan’s White Nile State, according to volunteers and eyewitnesses.”A ferry carrying 16 people, including women, sank in Wad Al-Zaki. Four passengers were rescued, while search operations are still underway,” the Sudan Doctors Network, a volunteer group, said in a statement on Saturday (local time).An eyewitness told Xinhua that the boat sank while crossing betw…
Brussels, Feb 10 (IANS) January 2026 was the fifth-warmest on record globally, with contrasting temperature extremes seen in both hemispheres, the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported on Tuesday.The global average temperature in January 2026 stood at 12.95 degrees Celsius, 0.28 degrees Celsius cooler than the record-warm January 2025, ranking as the fifth-warmest January worldwide, the report said.The Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere experienced different ext…
Jerusalem, Feb 8 (IANS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that he will travel to Washington on Wednesday to discuss the Iran-US talks with US President Donald Trump.The two will discuss “the negotiations with Iran,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, adding that Netanyahu “believes that any talks must include restrictions on ballistic missiles and an end to support for the Iranian axis.”The announcement followed indirect talks between Iranian and US delegations held in…