The president of the World Bank says he'll be stepping down on February 1st. The announcement by Jim Yong Kim comes nearly 3 years before his current and 2nd term was set to expire in 2022.
ULAN BATOR, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Two drivers were killed and 31 passengers injured in a bus accident early Tuesday in southeastern Mongolia, local media reported, citing the country's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
HELSINKI, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The driver and a three-year-old child were killed in a head-on collision with a heavy truck on Monday, near Sodankyla in northern Finland.
The asylum claim of a young Saudi woman who resisted deportation from Thailand in a gripping, live-tweeted ordeal will take "several days" to assess, the UN's refugee agency in Bangkok said Tuesday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump exchanged New Year greetings over telephone, an official statement issued by India's external affairs ministry said Tuesday.
