South Korea’s ruling and opposition parties agreed on Tuesday to form a joint parliamentary task force to probe the recent Jeju Air plane crash that left 179 people dead. The  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       At least 28 Palestinians were killed following Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip over the past day, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television channel reported. According to Al Jazeera, the Israeli  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Justin Trudeau yesterday announced his resignation as leader of the Liberal Party in a press conference held in Ottawa, saying that he would continue serving as Prime Minister until the  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       US President Joe Biden will travel to New Orleans next week to meet the families of victims of a deadly truck-ramming attack that killed 14 people, the White House announced  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Russia said on Saturday it had shot down eight US-supplied ATACMS missiles, whose use Moscow has warned could spark a hypersonic ballistic missile attack on central Kyiv. ATACMS missiles have  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       A fire at a vegetable market in north China  killed eight people and injured 15 on Saturday, local authorities reported. “The injured have been sent to hospital for treatment and  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       A total of 1,147,567 foreign tourists arrived in Nepal in 2024, the third highest since 2018, showed official figures released on Wednesday. The figure marked a 13-percent rise over 2023,  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Donald Trump doubled down Thursday on linking the deadly New Orleans truck-ramming attack to President Joe Biden’s border policies, even though the attacker was identified as a US citizen and  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       US President Joe Biden on Sunday declared January 9 a national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter, calling on Americans to visit their places of worship to “pay homage” to  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Tributes poured in Monday for Jimmy Carter, the former US president and Nobel peace laureate who rose from humble beginnings in rural Georgia to lead the nation and died aged