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