Asia

Israel

Israel's Beresheet spacecraft fails in moon landing attempt

Israel's Beresheet spacecraft failed in its "soft" landing on the moon's surface on Thursday evening, its support team said.

11/04/2019

Philippines

Watch: The Manila traffic vendors selling basketballs and bonsai trees

The city's notorious congestion has become a way for people to make a meagre living.

11/04/2019

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Singapore Airport now boasts an internal 40-metre-high waterfall

Numerous visitors attended this Thursday the pre-opening of a new complex at the Singapore airport, to take a look at the Rain Vortex, a 40-meter-high waterfall that pours rainwater from the center of the glass and steel dome.

11/04/2019

Korea

South Korea court strikes down law criminalising abortion in landmark ruling

South Korea court strikes down law criminalising abortion in landmark ruling

11/04/2019

Thailand

Watch: Water fight with colourful elephants marks Thai New Year

The Songkran festival sees elephants and humans splashing and spraying each other with water.

11/04/2019

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Coulourful elephants spray water as Thailand toasts its new year

The animals showed no mercy as they slurped up water and sprayed children and adults alike to help them cool off.

11/04/2019

Indonesia

Watch: Star-gazing technology used to track endangered orangutans

Orangutan numbers have dropped two-thirds since the 1970s as agriculture destroys their habitat.

11/04/2019

Philippines

Scientists discover unknown human species on Philippine island

Scientists discover unknown human species on Philippine island

10/04/2019

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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay: "It's passion I think."

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Euronews' caught up with British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay about life, work and politics.

10/04/2019

Israel

Watch: Thousands of prayer notes removed from Western Wall

Twice a year the Rabbi of the Western Wall oversees the collection of the prayers to make room for more

10/04/2019

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Clean out of written prayers from cracks of Jerusalem's Western Wall

The tradition of putting a small paper with a prayer between the cracks of the wall is several centuries old.

10/04/2019

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Japan's emperor toasts 60 years of marriage weeks before abdication

The couple met in 1957 at a tennis championship remembered as the "love match".

10/04/2019

Iran

Watch: Iran's lawmakers wear Revolutionary Guards' uniforms

Watch: Iran's lawmakers wear Revolutionary Guards' uniforms to Parliament after the US named the country's military elite as a foreign terrorist organization.

09/04/2019

United Arab Emirates

Daughter of woman detained in Dubai pleads for mother's release

The daughter of woman detained in Dubai for a Facebook post wrote a letter to the emirate's ruler pleading for her mother's release,

09/04/2019

Japan

Nissan's former chair Ghosn says 'conspiracy' is behind his arrest

Nissan's former chair Carlos Ghosn says he was a victim of "backstabbing" and a "conspiracy" in a video address showed on Tuesday.

09/04/2019

Israel

Netanyahu on course for record fifth term after rival admits defeat

Benjamin Netanyahu's is on course for a fifth term as Israel's prime minister. Benny Gantz, his main rival in Tuesday's election, conceded defeat at a press conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

09/04/2019

Israel

Euroviews. Bibi fatigue: How the Israeli election became a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu ǀ View

This is a race between two competing perspectives: Those who have Bibi fatigue and those who see Netanyahu as indispensable to the nation.

08/04/2019

United Arab Emirates

UAE & Saudi Arabia to give $200m in aid to Yemenis of all backgrounds

UAE and Saudi Arabia to give $200m in aid to Yemenis of all backgrounds

08/04/2019

Uzbekistan

Watch: Students plant trees to save what's left of the Aral Sea

The rivers that feed the sea were diverted in a Soviet project to boost cotton production in the arid region.

08/04/2019

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Animals evacuated from neglected Gaza zoo

An international welfare group evacuated dozens of animals languishing in a ramshackle Gaza zoo on Sunday to sanctuaries abroad, in the fourth and largest such rescue mission in the beleaguered, war-torn Palestinian enclave.

08/04/2019

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People from ethnic minorities celebrate traditional festival in Hainan

Dancing, singing and drinking rice wine, people of ethnic minorities in south China's Hainan Province celebrated their traditional "Sanyuesan Festival" on Sunday.

08/04/2019

World

Is Netanyahu's annexation threat a panic move as election looms?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to formally annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank ahead of Tuesday's elections in Israel.

08/04/2019

United Arab Emirates

British mother held in Dubai for old Facebook posts

Laleh Sharavesh has been banned from leaving Dubai and faces jail and a large fine after describing her ex-husband’s new wife as a “horse” on Facebook three years ago.

08/04/2019

Japan

Nissan shareholders oust Carlos Ghosn from board

Nissan shareholders voted to oust former chairman Carlos Ghosn from board.

08/04/2019

Israel

Netanyahu election pledge slammed

Turkey and the Palestinian Authority have condemned the Israeli prime minister's pledge to extend sovereignty over the West Bank

07/04/2019

Green News

Seaweed can save the planet from plastic waste

Researchers have devised a possible solution for durable plastic waste, inspired by the ocean.

07/04/2019