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Expo Centre Sharjah, World Trade Centre Istanbul discuss boosting cooperation

Expo Centre Sharjah, World Trade Centre Istanbul discuss...

Sharjah [UAE], February 12: The Expo Centre Sharjah (ECS) and the World Trade Centre Istanbul (WTCI) have discussed ways of...

Lebanon to resume returning Syrian refugees to homeland: minister

Lebanon to resume returning Syrian refugees to homeland:...

Beirut [Lebanon], February 11: Lebanon will soon resume returning Syrian refugees to their homeland, Lebanese Minister of the Displaced Issam...

1 wounded in armed attack during Istanbul mayor election campaign

1 wounded in armed attack during Istanbul mayor...

Istanbul [Turkey], February 11: A woman was injured in an armed attack on Saturday during the mayoral election campaign of...

Israel's finance minister defends economy outlook after Moody's downgrade

Israel's finance minister defends economy outlook after Moody's...

Jerusalem [Israel], February 11: Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Saturday brushed off Moody's downgrade of Israel's credit ratings for...

At least 25 killed in Israeli bombing on southern Gaza

At least 25 killed in Israeli bombing on...

Gaza [Palestine], February 11: At least 25 Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombing of a house in the southern Gaza...

Chinese New Year festivities in Germany kick off with traditional concert

Chinese New Year festivities in Germany kick off...

Berlin [Germany], February 11: Chinese New Year celebrations in the German city of Duesseldorf kicked off here with a traditional...

No survivors found in California helicopter crash

No survivors found in California helicopter crash

California [US], February 11: No survivors have been found Saturday, 16 hours after a helicopter with six people on board...

Death toll climbs to 35 in Tuesday's landslide in Philippines, with 77 missing

Death toll climbs to 35 in Tuesday's landslide...

Manila [Philippines], February 11: The death toll in a massive landslide that crashed into villages in Davao de Oro province...

Afghanistan's permanent seat in U.N. must be given to Islamic Emirate: senior official

Afghanistan's permanent seat in U.N. must be given...

Kabul [Afghanistan], February 11: Afghanistan's Deputy Prime Minister for Political Affairs Mawlawi Abdul Kabir said Afghanistan's permanent seat in the...

3 killed, 14 injured as van blows tire on Philippines' highway

3 killed, 14 injured as van blows tire...

Manila [Philippines], February 11: A van blew a tire on a highway in Pangasinan province, north of Manila, and crashed...

4.7-magnitude quake rocks Japan's Noto region

4.7-magnitude quake rocks Japan's Noto region

Tokyo [Japan], February 11: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 jolted Japan's Noto region in Ishikawa prefecture, the...

Palestinian families torn apart amid war in Gaza

Palestinian families torn apart amid war in Gaza

Gaza [Palestine], February 11: Wisam Hamada, a Palestinian woman in Gaza, could not forget the trembling voice of her child...

Iraq calls for int'l intervention to thwart Israeli military plan in Rafah

Iraq calls for int'l intervention to thwart Israeli...

Baghdad [Iraq], February 11: The Iraqi Foreign Ministry on Saturday urged the international community to thwart an Israeli plan to...

Yemeni leader meets with UN envoy on political solution to civil conflict

Yemeni leader meets with UN envoy on political...

Aden [Yemen], February 11: Chairman of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council Rashad Al-Alimi on Saturday received UN Special Envoy for Yemen...

U.S.-British airstrikes hit Houthi targets in Yemen's Hodeidah

U.S.-British airstrikes hit Houthi targets in Yemen's Hodeidah

Sana'a [Yemen], February 11: The United States and Britain launched new airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen's Red Sea port...

Iranian FM discusses Gaza situation with Palestinian resistance group leaders

Iranian FM discusses Gaza situation with Palestinian resistance...

Tehran[Iran], February 11; Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Saturday exchanged views with the leaders of the Palestinian resistance groups...

Malaysia: Top Court Declares "Void And Invalid" Some Sharia Laws'

Malaysia: Top Court Declares "Void And Invalid" Some...

Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], February 11: In a historic ruling that may have an impact on comparable sharia laws in other...

Hungarian president resigns over sex abuse case pardon

Hungarian president resigns over sex abuse case pardon

Budapest [Hungary], February 11: Hungarian President Katalin Novak resigned after coming under mounting pressure for pardoning a man convicted of...

Canadian man opens Thai Airways plane door before takeoff

Canadian man opens Thai Airways plane door before...

Ottawa [Canada], February 11: A Canadian tourist opened the door of a Thai Airways (THAI.BK), opens new tab flight that...

Philippine landslide death toll climbs to 35

Philippine landslide death toll climbs to 35

Manila [Philippines], February 11: The number of people killed by a landslide in the southern Philippines has risen to 35,...

US: Oregon reports first human case of Bubonic plague in nearly a decade

US: Oregon reports first human case of Bubonic...

Oregon [USA], February 11: The Oregon state of the US reported its first human case of bubonic plague in nearly...

Sudan war leaves 700,000 children facing life-threatening malnutrition

Sudan war leaves 700,000 children facing life-threatening malnutrition

United Nations, February 10: UN humanitarians on Friday highlighted a harrowing statistic: 700,000 children in Sudan are now facing the...

Israel rejects half of aid requests for northern Gaza Strip: UNRWA

Israel rejects half of aid requests for northern...

Gaza [Palestine], February 10: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said...

Former Dutch PM van Agt dies at 93

Former Dutch PM van Agt dies at 93

The Hague [Netherlands], February 10: Former Dutch Prime Minister Dries van Agt died on Monday at the age of 93,...

European farmers stage new protests over heavy EU regulations, cheap imports

European farmers stage new protests over heavy EU...

Rome [Italy], February 10: Farmers in Italy, Poland, Spain and Bulgaria have staged new protests this week against excessively...

Mexico's industrial activity grows by 3.5 pct in 2023

Mexico's industrial activity grows by 3.5 pct in...

Mexico City [Mexico], February 10: Mexico's industrial activity grew by 3.5 percent in 2023 compared to the previous year, supported...

Canadian PM furious over Bell Media's decision to lay off journalists

Canadian PM furious over Bell Media's decision to...

Ottawa [Canada], February 10: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday called Bell Media's move to lay off hundreds of...