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Residents in Western Australia urged to flee as wildfire rages

Residents in Western Australia urged to flee as...

Canberra [Australia], January 13: Residents in the state of Western Australia were urged to evacuate their homes on Saturday, as...

North Korea poised to admit first known tourists since 2020

North Korea poised to admit first known tourists...

Seoul [South Korea], January 12: A group from Russia is poised to be the first known tourists allowed into North...

UN spokesperson highlights dire humanitarian situation in northern Gaza

UN spokesperson highlights dire humanitarian situation in northern...

New York [US], January 12: A UN spokesperson on Thursday highlighted the worsening humanitarian crisis in northern Gaza, emphasizing significant...

Myanmar navy seizes 1.45 tons of narcotic drugs

Myanmar navy seizes 1.45 tons of narcotic drugs

Yangon [Myanmar], January 12: Myanmar navy has seized 1.45 tons of Methamphetamine (ICE) in its territorial waters, according to the...

Gaza hospitals cut off from UN aid as Israel intensifies bombing

Gaza hospitals cut off from UN aid as...

Tel Aviv [Israel], January 12: Repeated refusals by Israeli authorities to allow UN aid teams to deliver the desperately needed...

Blinken sees 'concrete steps forward' as he ends Middle East trip

Blinken sees 'concrete steps forward' as he ends...

Washington [US], January 12: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said the war in Gaza "is not escalating"...

Sheikh Hasina sworn in for fifth term as Bangladesh's premier

Sheikh Hasina sworn in for fifth term as...

Dhaka [Bangladesh], January 12: Sheikh Hasina was sworn in for a another term as Bangladesh's prime minister on Thursday, less...

Zelensky says ceasefire would allow Russia to regroup and rearm

Zelensky says ceasefire would allow Russia to regroup...

Kyiv [Russia], January 12: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has firmly rejected the idea of a ceasefire with Russia, saying it...

Azerbaijan demands land corridor through Armenia

Azerbaijan demands land corridor through Armenia

Moscow [Russia], January 12: The Caucasus republic of Azerbaijan is demanding that neighbouring Armenia establish a land corridor free of...

Trump attends closing arguments in NYC fraud trial

Trump attends closing arguments in NYC fraud trial

New York [US], January 12: The last day of Donald Trump's months-long Manhattan fraud trial started on time Thursday despite...

US, Britain carry out strikes against Houthis in Yemen

US, Britain carry out strikes against Houthis in...

Washington [US], January 12: The United States and Britain have started carrying out strikes against targets linked to Houthis in...

Ukraine builds barricades, digs trenches as focus shifts to defence

Ukraine builds barricades, digs trenches as focus shifts...

Kyiv [Ukraine], January 12: Rows of white concrete barricades and coils of razor wire stretch across an open field for...

Reaction to South Africa's UN court case against Israel's war in Gaza

Reaction to South Africa's UN court case against...

Tel Aviv [Israel], January 12: South Africa accused Israel of subjecting Palestinians to genocidal acts at the opening of hearings...

Russia's Medvedev warns of nuclear response

Russia's Medvedev warns of nuclear response

Moscow [Russia], January 12: A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin warned that any Ukrainian attacks on missile launch sites...

Tens of thousands protest in Poland against ex-ministers' imprisonment

Tens of thousands protest in Poland against ex-ministers'...

Warsaw [Poland], January 12: Tens of thousands of opposition supporters massed outside Poland's parliament to protest against the new government's...

Iran seizes oil tanker involved in US-Iran dispute in Gulf of Oman

Iran seizes oil tanker involved in US-Iran dispute...

Tehran [Iran], January 12: The St Nikolas was boarded by armed intruders as it sailed close to the Omani city...

Netanyahu condemns ICJ genocide case

Netanyahu condemns ICJ genocide case

Tel Aviv [Israel], January 12: Benjamin Netanyahu condemned South Africa's genocide case against Israel in Gaza as "hypocrisy and lies".

Trump critic Chris Christie exits 2024 U.S. presidential race

Trump critic Chris Christie exits 2024 U.S. presidential...

Washington [US], January 11: Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, known as a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump,...

Bangladeshi president appoints Sheikh Hasina as new PM, invites her to form new gov't

Bangladeshi president appoints Sheikh Hasina as new PM,...

Dhaka [Bangladesh], January 11: Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Wednesday appointed ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party leader Sheikh Hasina...

213 dead, 52 missing in Japan's quake-hit Ishikawa prefecture

213 dead, 52 missing in Japan's quake-hit Ishikawa...

Tokyo [Japan], January 11: The death toll rose to 213 in the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa on Thursday, after...

At Washington meeting China demands end to US military aid to Taiwan

At Washington meeting China demands end to US...

Beijing [China], January 11: At a meeting of military representatives, China has called on the United States to stop arming...

Zelensky appeals for air defence systems at start of Baltic tour

Zelensky appeals for air defence systems at start...

Kyiv [Ukraine], January 11: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for more air defence systems as he made a major trip...

US wants 'tangible steps' toward Palestinian state; Israel fights on

US wants 'tangible steps' toward Palestinian state; Israel...

Washington [US], January 11: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday he supports "tangible steps" towards establishing a...

Polish police arrest MPs in presidential palace

Polish police arrest MPs in presidential palace

Warsaw [Poland], January 11: Polish police have arrested the former interior minister and deputy interior minister inside the presidential palace...

US, allies slam alleged N Korea missiles to Russia

US, allies slam alleged N Korea missiles to...

Washington [US], January 11: Nearly 50 countries joined the United States on Tuesday in condemning North Korea's alleged transfer of...

North Korea's Kim brands Seoul 'principal enemy'

North Korea's Kim brands Seoul 'principal enemy'

Pyongyang [North Korea], January 11: North Korea's Kim Jong Un branded South Korea his country's "principal enemy" and warned he...

Pastor slams Western church 'silence' on Gaza

Pastor slams Western church 'silence' on Gaza

Ramallah [Palestine], January 11: For his first service of 2024, Palestinian pastor Munther Isaac read a biblical passage in which...