KIEV -- Fifteen people were killed in a fire in a two-story apartment building in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, the press service of Ukrainian State Service for Emergencies reported on Thursday. (Ukraine-Fire-Deaths)

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GENEVA -- World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Thursday that the organization welcomed the pledge that the United States will remain a member of WHO.

"WHO is a family of nations. And we are all glad that the United States is staying in the family," the WHO chief said at the on-going meeting of the 148th session of the WHO Executive Board, following an announcement by Dr Anthony S. Fauci, new representative of the United States, at the meeting. (WHO-Tedros-US)

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MANILA -- An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 jolted Davao Occidental province in the southern Philippines on Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Seismology and Volcanology (Phivolcs) said.

The institute said the quake, which struck at 8:23 p.m. local time, hit at a depth of 116 km, about 231 km southeast of Jose Abad Santos town. (Philippines-Earthquake)

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ULAN BATOR -- The Mongolian parliament on Thursday evening approved the resignation of Prime Minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh and his government.

Khurelsukh's resignation was approved by a vote of over 95 percent in the country's 76-seat unicameral parliament, or the State Great Khural. (Mongolia-Parliament-PM)

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FRANKFURT -- The European Central Bank (ECB) said on Thursday that it decided to keep the euro area key interest rates and other pandemic policy responses unchanged following its first monetary policy meeting in 2021.

Eurozone key interest rates will remain at record low levels, with the base interest rate, marginal lending rate and deposit rate unchanged at 0.00 percent, 0.25 percent and minus 0.50 percent, respectively, according to an ECB press release. (Germany-ECB-Rates) Enditem

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