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U.S.-British coalition launches airstrikes on Yemen's Hodeidah: Houthi...
Sanaa [Yemen] October 19: Warplanes of the U.S.-British coalition launched two airstrikes on Yemen's port city of Hodeidah late Friday...
Russia and Ukraine swap prisoners of war
Kyiv [Ukraine], October 19: Russia and Ukraine have each swapped 95 prisoners of war with the United Arab Emirates acting...
Woman dead, search for children missing in bay...
Floyd Bay [Australia], October 19: A woman has died and a major search is continuing for two children missing in...
N.Korean troops in Russia 'ready for combat in...
Pyongyang [North Korea], October 19: North Korea has shipped 1500 special forces troops to Russia's far east for training and...
Harris, Trump spar over who has stamina to...
Washington [US], October 19: Kamala Harris has raised questions about Donald Trump's physical stamina to serve effectively as president as...
Russia returns remains of 500 soldiers to Ukraine
Moscow [Russia], October 19: Russia has returned to Ukraine the bodies of 501 soldiers, Ukrainian authorities say, in what appears...
Nepal's former home minister arrested over alleged cooperative...
Kathmandu [Nepal], October 19: Nepal's former deputy prime minister and home minister Rabi Lamichhane was arrested on Friday evening over...
All Sydney beaches reopened following tar ball pollution
Sydney [Australia], October 19: All Sydney beaches reopened on Saturday after several were closed due to tar ball pollution.
Man detained in Tokyo after throwing apparent firebombs...
Tokyo [Japan], October 19: A man was arrested in Tokyo after throwing what appeared to be Molotov cocktails at the...
Philippines Vice President criticizes President for 'lacking leadership...
Manila [Philippines], October 19: Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte on October 18 harshly attacked President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., saying he...
Gazans praise Hamas leader's final act against Israel
Ramallah [Palestine], October 19: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the deadly attack by Hamas gunmen on southern Israel...
WTO announces agenda for COP29 in Baku
Baku [Azerbaijan], October 19: The WTO Secretariat, led by Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, will once again have a presence at the...
International law obligates Israel to end occupation, says...
Geneva [Switzerland], October 19: All countries and international organisations, including the United Nations, have obligations under international law to bring...
Death toll from Nigeria fuel tanker explosion rises...
Abuja [Nigeria], October 19: Nigerian authorities confirmed today that the death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in the north...
Guterres submits report of investigation into death of...
New York [US], October 19: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has submitted an updated report to the President of the...
190 captives released following ninth UAE mediation between...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], October 19: The UAE has successfully mediated a new exchange of captives between the Russian Federation...
Trump blames Ukraine's Zelenskiy for starting war with...
New York [US], October 18: Donald Trump blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for helping start that nation's war with Russia.
After Sinwar death, Biden faces big obstacles
New York [US], October 18: Joe Biden is expected to use Israel's killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to pressure...
Kenya senate votes to remove deputy president from...
Nairobi [Kenya], October 18: Kenya's senate voted to dismiss Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office by impeachment.
UN seeks probe into reported mass killing of...
Geneva [Switzerland], October 18: The United Nations' mission in Afghanistan called for an investigation into reports that a large group...
Georgia judge blocks elections rules backed by Pro-Trump...
Georgia [US], October 18: A judge on Wednesday overturned controversial changes to Georgia election rules made by a Republican-controlled state...
Nebraska law allowing felons to vote upheld by...
Nebraska [US], October 18: Nebraska's top state court upheld a state law allowing felons who have completed their sentences to...
Colombian farmers embrace green pivot
Bogota [Colombia], October 18: A transformation has taken root in Colombia's jungle heartland, as farmers once engaged in coca cultivation...
Jimmy Carter, 100, fulfils his wish and votes...
Washington [US], October 18: Jimmy Carter, the oldest living former US president and the only one to have reached the...
Kamala Harris duels with host during conservative Fox...
Washington [US], October 18: In her first TV interview with the conservative US broadcaster Fox News, US Democratic presidential candidate...
Former One Direction star Payne dies in Argentina...
Buenos Aires [Argentina], October 18: Former One Direction star Liam Payne has died after falling from a hotel balcony in...
Boy, 8, dies in UK on rabbit shooting...
London [UK], October 18: An eight-year-old boy was killed with a shotgun during a rabbit shooting expedition in England, an...