Melbourne: Two men drowned after being swept into the ocean in southeast Melbourne amid severe winds that hit the Australian state of Victoria on Wednesday. Police on Thursday identified one of the victims as a British national who was surfing in extr…

Windhoek: President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has called on the private sector to join hands with the government in addressing unemployment and driving Namibia’s economic transformation, saying the country’s future depends on collaboration, innovation an…

Johannesburg: Namibia’s senior national women’s football team, the Brave Gladiators, lost their first-leg encounter of the 2026 Confederation of African Football (CAF) Women’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers after a six-goal thriller. The match, play…

Beijing: Chinese stocks closed higher on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index registering a 0.22 percent increase to reach 3,922.41 points. The Shenzhen Component Index also mirrored this rise, closing 0.22 percent higher at 13,025.45…

Tokyo: Tokyo stocks ended lower Thursday, pressured by weak semiconductor and technology shares and investors locking in recent gains.

According to Namibia press Agency, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei stock index, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average, ende…

Aktobe: Twelve people were killed in a road accident in the Aktobe region of western Kazakhstan, the Kazinform news agency reported Thursday, citing the regional police department. The tragic incident occurred on the Samara-Shymkent highway near the v…

Qinghai: The snow leopard population in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province in northwest China, has reached 59, the provincial forestry and grassland administration announced on Thursday, coinciding with World Snow Leopard Day.

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Aden: On a sweltering night in Aden, when the power was cut yet again, a resident stepped outside and sat beneath a shattered streetlamp. Around them, the city seemed swallowed by darkness and silence, broken only by the ragged drone of private genera…

Beijing: China’s express delivery sector handled 145.08 billion parcels in the first nine months of 2025, reflecting a 17.2 percent increase compared to the same period last year.

According to Namibia press Agency, China’s broader postal industry, w…

Washington: The U.S. military has executed another strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in international waters of the eastern Pacific, resulting in the deaths of all three individuals aboard, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced.

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Istanbul: Turkish security forces on Thursday detained 42 suspects in simultaneous operations across nine provinces in a crackdown on an organized crime network whose leaders are based abroad, the country’s interior minister announced. The operations,…

Shenzhen: The ChiNext Index, which tracks China’s Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, saw a marginal rise of 0.09 percent, closing at 3,062.16 points on Thursday.

According to Namibia press Agency, the ChiNext Index, along with the Shenzhen Co…

Shanghai: Chinese stocks closed higher on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.22 percent to 3,922.41 points.

According to Namibia press Agency, the Shenzhen Component Index also saw an increase, closing 0.22 percent higher at…