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US fighter jet crashes into Yellow Sea; pilot ejects and survives

US fighter jet crashes into Yellow Sea; pilot...

Seoul [South Korea], February 1: A second F-16 fighter jet of the US armed forces has crashed in South...

Libya deports migrants back to Egypt: Official

Libya deports migrants back to Egypt: Official

Tripoli [Libya], February 1: Libyan authorities on Wednesday began sending 350 irregular migrants to their home country Egypt, an immigration...

Eight million displaced by Sudan war: UN

Eight million displaced by Sudan war: UN

Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], February 1: The number of people uprooted by the war between rival generals in Sudan is around...

Spain MPs reject Catalan amnesty bill in blow for PM

Spain MPs reject Catalan amnesty bill in blow...

Madrid [Spain], February 1: Spanish lawmakers on Tuesday rejected a deeply divisive Catalan amnesty bill with the hardline separatist party...

Argentina mega reform bill set to pass in Congress

Argentina mega reform bill set to pass in...

Buenos Aires [Argentina], February 1: Argentina's government said that it was confident its sprawling economic reform bill, known as the...

Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan, wife sentenced to 14 years

Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan, wife sentenced to 14...

Islamabad [Pakistan], February 1: Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 14...

India deploys unprecedented naval might near Red Sea

India deploys unprecedented naval might near Red Sea

New Delhi [India], February 1: India has deployed at least a dozen warships east of the Red Sea to provide...

Thai court stops royal insult law reform

Thai court stops royal insult law reform

Bangkok [Thailand], February 1: Thailand's Move Forward party's plan to change the royal defamation law, among the world's strictest, was...

Saif bin Zayed meets Sultan Al Neyadi; Team of 'Zayed Ambition 2'

Saif bin Zayed meets Sultan Al Neyadi; Team...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], February 1: H.H. Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister...

Mohammed bin Rashid receives Speaker of Turkish Grand National Assembly

Mohammed bin Rashid receives Speaker of Turkish Grand...

Dubai [UAE], February 1: His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the...

Abu Dhabi prepares to host opening race of Global World Triathlon championship series 2024

Abu Dhabi prepares to host opening race of...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], February 1: Abu Dhabi Sports Council is once again hosting the season-opening event of the World Triathlon...

US stocks retreat as Fed holds key interest rate steady

US stocks retreat as Fed holds key interest...

New York [US], February 1: US stocks veered after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady while hinting that...

UN envoy embarks on effort to resume Cyprus peace talks

UN envoy embarks on effort to resume Cyprus...

Nicosia [Cyprus], January 31: An envoy for United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres embarked on efforts Tuesday in Nicosia...

Sultan Ibrahim sworn in as Malaysia's new king

Sultan Ibrahim sworn in as Malaysia's new king

Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], January 31: Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar was sworn in as Malaysia's 17th king in a ceremony at...

New Zealand, Australian foreign, defense ministers meet first time in "2+2" format

New Zealand, Australian foreign, defense ministers meet first...

Wellington [New Zealand], January 31: New Zealand and Australia's foreign ministers and defense ministers met on Wednesday to discuss key...

Hamas chief says open to talks about Gaza ceasefire

Hamas chief says open to talks about Gaza...

Gaza [Palestine], January 31: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said on Tuesday that his movement is examining a draft agreement with...

Russia and Ukraine both report drone attacks during the night

Russia and Ukraine both report drone attacks during...

Moscow [Russia], January 31: Russian air defences repelled Ukrainian drone attacks on the Crimea peninsula and four other regions overnight,...

Situation in Mideast more dangerous now than in 1973: Blinken

Situation in Mideast more dangerous now than in...

Washington [US], January 31: The situation in the Middle East is more dangerous than it has been for decades, US...

Chinese prez accepts credentials of Taliban's envoy

Chinese prez accepts credentials of Taliban's envoy

Islamabad [Pakistan], January 31: Chinese President Xi Jinping has officially accepted the credentials of the Taliban's ambassador to Beijing, the...

Scandal-hit New York mayor fights for political survival

Scandal-hit New York mayor fights for political survival

New York [US], January 31: New York Mayor Eric Adams is gripped by a slew of scandals, including a sexual...

North Korea fires new round of missiles

North Korea fires new round of missiles

Seoul [South Korea], January 31: North Korea fired another round of cruise missiles on Tuesday, Seoul's military said, extending a...

Spanish farmers plan February protests as anger spreads

Spanish farmers plan February protests as anger spreads

Madrid [Spain], January 31: Spanish farmers' associations said they were planning to take to the streets in February.

Biden says he has decided how to respond to attack

Biden says he has decided how to respond...

Washington [US], January 31: U.S. President Joe Biden said he has made up his mind on how to respond to...

Pakistan court jails ex-PM Imran Khan for 10 years ahead of election

Pakistan court jails ex-PM Imran Khan for 10...

Islamabad [Pakistan], January 31: A Pakistan court jailed Imran Khan for 10 years for leaking state secrets.

West Africa's 'Brexit' moment spells trouble for the region

West Africa's 'Brexit' moment spells trouble for the...

Bamako [Mali], January 31: A decision by Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to quit West Africa's economic and political bloc...

The hospital raid by undercover Israeli commandos

The hospital raid by undercover Israeli commandos

Gaza [Palestine], January 31: A screen grab of CCTV footage from Ibn Sina hospital in the West Bank, opens new...

Sotheby's defeats Russian oligarch in art fraud case

Sotheby's defeats Russian oligarch in art fraud case

Moscow [Russia], January 31: A federal jury ruled in favor of Sotheby's at a trial in which the Russian billionaire...