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X Corp welcomes Meta's thumbs-down for fact-checking

X Corp welcomes Meta's thumbs-down for fact-checking

New York [US], January 10: Meta's decision to ditch independent fact-checking on its US platforms "couldn't be more validating" for...

Search widens for Tibet quake survivors as tens of thousands moved to shelters

Search widens for Tibet quake survivors as tens...

Lhasa [Tibet], January 10: Authorities moved more than 47,000 people to shelters in earthquake-hit Tibet, Chinese officials said, while rescuers...

UN predicts world economic growth to remain at 2.8% in 2025

UN predicts world economic growth to remain at...

New York [US], January 10: Global economic growth is projected to remain at 2.8% in 2025, unchanged from 2024, held...

Russia keeping close eye on Trump's claim to Greenland

Russia keeping close eye on Trump's claim to...

Moscow [Russia], January 10: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia is closely monitoring the situation, after US President-elect Donald...

New York's top court rejects Trump bid to delay hush-money case sentencing

New York's top court rejects Trump bid to...

New York [US], January 10: New York's top court has rejected an attempt by United States President-elect Donald Trump to...

Jimmy Carter honoured with state funeral in Washington

Jimmy Carter honoured with state funeral in Washington

Washington [US], January 10: Former United States President Jimmy Carter has been honoured with a state funeral at the Washington...

Five dead, over 1,000 homes destroyed as LA wildfires rage

Five dead, over 1,000 homes destroyed as LA...

New York [US], January 10: At least five people have died, four firefighters have been injured and more than 1,000...

Meloni positions herself as EU-US 'bridge builder'

Meloni positions herself as EU-US 'bridge builder'

Rome [Italy], January 10: Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is aiming for a central leadership role in Europe as President-elect...

US, Germany pledge more aid for Ukraine

US, Germany pledge more aid for Ukraine

Berlin [Germany], January 10: Washington and Berlin pledged more aid for Ukraine as allies of the embattled nation gathered with...

Massive crowd joins largest religious procession in Philippines

Massive crowd joins largest religious procession in Philippines

Manila [Philippines], January 10: A massive crowd of over 7.4 million mostly barefoot devotees on Thursday joined the largest religious...

Concert marks a month of Assad's fall

Concert marks a month of Assad's fall

Damascus [Syria], January 10: It's been a month since Bashar Al-Assad was overthrown, ending more than five decades of his...

Lebanese parliament elects army commander president

Lebanese parliament elects army commander president

Beirut [Lebanon], January 10: The Lebanese parliament elected armed forces commander Joseph Aoun as the country's new president on Thursday...

Three Gaza hospitals face imminent closure as latest Israeli raids kill 50

Three Gaza hospitals face imminent closure as latest...

Gaza [Palestine], January 10: Three more hospitals in Gaza could be shut down due to lack of fuel, the UN...

EIB plans to double support for Bangladesh

EIB plans to double support for Bangladesh

Dhaka [Bangladesh], January 10: The European Investment Bank (EIB) plans to double its financial support for Bangladesh to €2 billion...

Donald Trump requests US Supreme Court to pause sentencing in hush money case

Donald Trump requests US Supreme Court to pause...

Washington [US], January 9: US President-elect Donald Trump requested the Supreme Court, to pause his sentencing in the hush money...

"Expected during winter," WHO official on HMPV virus

"Expected during winter," WHO official on HMPV virus

Geneva [Switzerland], January 9: Amid concerns surrounding the Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) virus, WHO official, Margaret Harris, said that the rise...

10 patients evacuated for treatment in Jordan, US

10 patients evacuated for treatment in Jordan, US

New York [US], January 9: World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said his organisation and partners facilitated the...

Ukrainian prisoners executed by Russia: UN

Ukrainian prisoners executed by Russia: UN

Geneva [Switzerland], January 9: The UN Human Rights Office says it has credible reports of the execution of 62 Ukrainian...

Israel bombs women, children in Gaza's 'safe zone'

Israel bombs women, children in Gaza's 'safe zone'

Gaza [Palestine], January 9: Many women and young children have been reported killed in Israel's latest attacks on Gaza, with...

Palisades fire in Los Angeles destroys 1,000 structures; no containment

Palisades fire in Los Angeles destroys 1,000 structures;...

Los Angeles [US], January 9: The worst-case scenario has been realized in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood of Los Angeles, where...

Three people confirmed dead in Australian seaplane crash

Three people confirmed dead in Australian seaplane crash

Sydney [Australia], January 9: Three people have died after a seaplane crashed near a popular Australian holiday island, Western Australia...

Trudeau says not 'a snowball's chance in hell' Canada will join US

Trudeau says not 'a snowball's chance in hell'...

New York [US], January 9: There is not "a snowball's chance in hell" that Canada will become the 51st US...

Germany and France warn Trump over threat to take over Greenland

Germany and France warn Trump over threat to...

Berlin [Germany] / Paris [France], January 9: Germany and France have warned Donald Trump against threatening Greenland, after the US...

Mexican president hits back at Trump with 'Mexican America' jibe

Mexican president hits back at Trump with 'Mexican...

Mexico City [Mexico], January 9: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has suggested renaming the southern United States "Mexican America" in response...

Romania's ruling coalition agrees to hold presidential election on May 4

Romania's ruling coalition agrees to hold presidential election...

Bucharest [Romania], January 9: Romania's ruling coalition has agreed to have the first round of the presidential elections on May...

Slovak PM to discuss gas transit issue with EU

Slovak PM to discuss gas transit issue with...

Bratislava [Slovakia], January 9: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced Wednesday that he will travel to Brussels on Thursday to...

Hungarian swimmer 'Iron Lady' Katinka Hosszu announces retirement

Hungarian swimmer 'Iron Lady' Katinka Hosszu announces retirement

Budapest [Hungary], January 9: Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu, nicknamed the "Iron Lady," announced her retirement from competitive swimming on Wednesday.