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Renewed fighting in DR Congo as regional powers step up ceasefire efforts

Renewed fighting in DR Congo as regional powers...

Kinshasa [Democratic Republic of the Congo], March 26: Rwanda-backed M23 rebels and pro-government fighters have clashed in eastern Democratic Republic...

White House plays down leak of Houthi attack chat group

White House plays down leak of Houthi attack...

Washington [US], March 26: The White House on Tuesday played down a growing scandal over a journalist gaining inadvertent access...

Belarus opposition leader calls for Radio Free Europe to stay on air

Belarus opposition leader calls for Radio Free Europe...

Riga [Latvia], March 26: The Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has called for US foreign broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty...

SpaceX launch blamed for glowing spiral in UK

SpaceX launch blamed for glowing spiral in UK

London [UK], March 26: A large glowing spiral which lit up the skies over the UK on Monday night...

New two-party liberal coalition in Estonia with narrow majority

New two-party liberal coalition in Estonia with narrow...

Riga [Latvia], March 26: A government reshuffle in Estonia was completed on Tuesday with the swearing in of five new...

South Korean PM Han Duck-soo reinstated as acting president

South Korean PM Han Duck-soo reinstated as acting...

Seoul [South Korea], March 25: South Korea's Constitutional Court overturned the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, reinstating the nation's...

Israeli strike on Gaza hospital kills Hamas leader, teen, say officials

Israeli strike on Gaza hospital kills Hamas leader,...

Gaza [Palestine], March 25: An Israeli air strike on a hospital in southern Gaza has killed at least two people,...

Israel building agency to steer Palestinian 'voluntary departure'

Israel building agency to steer Palestinian 'voluntary departure'

Tel Aviv [Israel], March 25: Israel is set to establish a government agency that would oversee the "voluntary departure" of...

Chad condemns Sudan's airport threat as 'declaration of war'

Chad condemns Sudan's airport threat as 'declaration of...

N'Djamena [Chad], March 25: Chad has condemned a senior Sudanese general's threat to target its airports, calling it a "declaration...

US deportations to Venezuela resume after dispute

US deportations to Venezuela resume after dispute

New York [US], March 25: A flight carrying 199 Venezuelans deported from the US to their homeland has landed at...

Paris residents vote in favour of car-free zones across 500 streets

Paris residents vote in favour of car-free zones...

Paris [France], March 25: Paris residents on Sunday voted in favour of the creation of a car-free zone across huge...

Egypt makes new proposal to restore Gaza truce as Israeli strikes kill 65

Egypt makes new proposal to restore Gaza truce...

Cairo [Egypt], March 25: Egypt has floated a new proposal aimed at restoring the Gaza ceasefire deal, security sources told...

Putin gave Trump a personal gift: Kremlin

Putin gave Trump a personal gift: Kremlin

Moscow [Russia], March 25: Russian President Vladimir Putin gave US President Donald Trump an "absolutely personal gift," presenting it to...

150 victims of Germanwings crash in French Alps commemorated, 10 years on

150 victims of Germanwings crash in French Alps...

Berlin [Germany], March 25: Relatives of the 150 people killed in a Germanwings airplane crash in the French Alps marked...

Three jailed over plot to smuggle drugs into Australia

Three jailed over plot to smuggle drugs into...

Sydney [Australia], March 25: Three men were sentenced to a combined maximum of more than 15 years in prison for...

Egypt makes new proposal for Gaza truce

Egypt makes new proposal for Gaza truce

Cairo [Egypt], March 25: Egypt has floated a new proposal aimed at restoring the Gaza ceasefire deal, security sources told...

Pope Francis returns to Vatican

Pope Francis returns to Vatican

Rome [Italy], March 25: After 38 days in hospital battling double pneumonia almost entirely out of sight, Pope Francis made...

Trump pushes US claims to Greenland

Trump pushes US claims to Greenland

Washington DC [US], March 25: President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his suggestion that the U.S. should take...

South Korean wildfires spread

South Korean wildfires spread

Seoul [South Korea], March 25: Deadly wildfires spread further across South Korea on Monday as authorities designated three more counties...

Nazis were treated better than Venezuelans deported by Trump

Nazis were treated better than Venezuelans deported by...

Washington DC [US], March 25: A U.S. appeals court judge said on Monday that Nazis were given more rights to...

Erdogan slams protests over jailed Istanbul mayor as 'movement of violence'

Erdogan slams protests over jailed Istanbul mayor as...

Ankara [Turkey], March 25: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that protests over the jailing of Istanbul's mayor had...

Ukraine sees Russian effort to sow chaos as cyberattack hits rail service

Ukraine sees Russian effort to sow chaos as...

Moscow [Russia], March 25: A powerful cyberattack knocked out the online ticketing system for Ukraine's state railway service, causing long...

Turkish President Erdogan's main rival jailed

Turkish President Erdogan's main rival jailed

Ankara [Turkey], March 25: The main rival to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been formally arrested and charged with...

US, Russia wrap up talks on proposed Black Sea ceasefire

US, Russia wrap up talks on proposed Black...

Moscow [Russia], March 25: U.S. and Russian officials wrapped up day-long talks on Monday focused on a narrow proposal for...

White House mistakenly shares Yemen war plans with a journalist at The Atlantic

White House mistakenly shares Yemen war plans with...

Washington DC [US], March 25: Top Trump administration officials mistakenly disclosed war plans in a messaging group that included a...

Wildfires force mandatory evacuation order in western North Carolina

Wildfires force mandatory evacuation order in western North...

Raleigh [North Carolina], March 24: Wildfires in North Carolina have forced an evacuation in one county as emergency crews work...

4 killed, 6 injured, some 1,500 evacuated as wildfires ravage Korea's southeastern region

4 killed, 6 injured, some 1,500 evacuated as...

Seoul [South Korea], March 24: At least four people were killed, six people were injured and some 1,500 people were...