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Japan books 22 bln USD current account surplus in July

Japan books 22 bln USD current account surplus...

Tokyo [Japan], September 9: Japan logged a current account surplus of 3.19 trillion yen (about 22.4 billion U.S. dollars) in...

Blinken travelling to London to discuss crisis in Middle East and Ukraine

Blinken travelling to London to discuss crisis in...

Washington [US], September 9: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to travel to London to discuss issues including...

Heavy fighting continues in strategically important Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine

Heavy fighting continues in strategically important Pokrovsk in...

Kiev [Ukraine], September 9: Ukraine said on Sunday that Russian troops have continued their relentless assault on Ukrainian defence lines...

World Jewish Congress lauds Gaza mediator efforts

World Jewish Congress lauds Gaza mediator efforts

Gaza Border [Israel], September 9: The head of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) has expressed his support for the mediators...

Algeria's Abdelmadjid Tebboune re-elected president with 94.7% vote

Algeria's Abdelmadjid Tebboune re-elected president with 94.7% vote

Algiers [Algeria], September 9: Algeria's incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, 78, has been re-elected to the position with an emphatic vote,...

Boeing reaches preliminary deal to prevent more than 30,000 workers from striking

Boeing reaches preliminary deal to prevent more than...

Washington [US], September 9: Boeing agreed on September 8 to a new preliminary contract with union leaders on wage increases,...

Yagi is the strongest autumn typhoon to hit China in 75 years, causing great damage

Yagi is the strongest autumn typhoon to hit...

Beijing [China], September 9: The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) on September 8 identified super typhoon Yagi as the strongest autumn...

Test across the Taiwan Strait

Test across the Taiwan Strait

Washington [US], September 9: A German magazine first reported the news and foreign media outlets quoted it, but the German...

Israeli strikes on Syria kill at least four, injure 13

Israeli strikes on Syria kill at least four,...

Tel Aviv [Israel], September 9: Multiple Israeli strikes on Syria's Hama countryside have killed at least four civilians, Syrian state...

Germany's Scholz calls for renewed push for peace in Ukraine

Germany's Scholz calls for renewed push for peace...

Berlin [Germany], September 9: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a renewed effort to bring peace to Ukraine, adding that...

Greece to tax cruise ships to curb over-tourism

Greece to tax cruise ships to curb over-tourism

Athens [Greece], September 9: Greece plans to impose a 20-euro levy on cruise ship visitors to the islands of Santorini...

Russia captures Ukrainian town near Pokrovsk

Russia captures Ukrainian town near Pokrovsk

Moscow [Russia], September 9: Russia said on Sunday its forces had taken full control of a town in eastern Ukraine...

Venezuelan opposition leader Gonzalez seeks asylum in Spain

Venezuelan opposition leader Gonzalez seeks asylum in Spain

Caracas [Venezuela], September 9: Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez flew into Spain on Sunday to seek asylum, Madrid said,...

Trump and Harris vie for black voters in Georgia

Trump and Harris vie for black voters in...

Washington [US], September 9: Vivian Childs, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, schooled a roomful of Republicans on how to...

Eleven dead, nine missing in Morocco following severe flooding

Eleven dead, nine missing in Morocco following severe...

Rabat [Morocco], September 9: The death toll from severe flooding in Morocco rose to eleven on Sunday, with nine still...

Emir of Kuwait issues decree accepting resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil

Emir of Kuwait issues decree accepting resignation of...

Kuwait City [Kuwait], September 9: His Highness Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait, issued an...

Algeria votes in presidential poll with incumbent Tebboune set to win

Algeria votes in presidential poll with incumbent Tebboune...

Algiers [Algeria], September 8: Algerians on Saturday were voting in a presidential election that incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is widely...

Thousands rally in France against new Prime Minister Barnier

Thousands rally in France against new Prime Minister...

Paris [France], September 8: Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in France on Saturday to protest the appointment of...

5.1-magnitude quake hits 59 km S of Iztapa, Guatemala: USGS

5.1-magnitude quake hits 59 km S of Iztapa,...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted 59 km S of Iztapa, Guatemala, at 15:52:39 GMT on Friday, the...

Kenyan fresh produce exporters urge end to Red Sea tensions amid rising costs

Kenyan fresh produce exporters urge end to Red...

Nairobi [Kenya], September 8: Fresh produce exporters from Kenya on Friday called for urgent resolution of the Red Sea tensions,...

Africa CDC warns of rising mpox cases, launches response plan with WHO

Africa CDC warns of rising mpox cases, launches...

Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], September 8: Africa is witnessing an "upward trend" in mpox cases, the Africa Centers for Disease Control...

Trucks carry 100 metric tons of food relief from Chad to famine-risk Sudan communities: UN

Trucks carry 100 metric tons of food relief...

Geneva [Switzerland], September 8: Trucks using the recently opened Adre crossing from Chad carried 100 metric tons of food aid...

At least 10 Palestinians killed in Israeli bombings in Gaza

At least 10 Palestinians killed in Israeli bombings...

Gaza [Palestine], September 8: At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombings targeting two residential houses in central and...

5 injured in bomb blast in Syria's Daraa

5 injured in bomb blast in Syria's Daraa

Damascus [Syria], September 8: Five people, including a child and a woman, were injured Friday evening when an explosive device...

Europe endures hottest summer on record, devastating crops, lives

Europe endures hottest summer on record, devastating crops,...

Brussels [Belgium], September 8: Europe experienced its hottest summer on record in 2024, as intense heatwaves and severe droughts crippled...

Promotion event in Munich boosts China-Germany cooperation

Promotion event in Munich boosts China-Germany cooperation

Munich [Germany], September 8: The "Hello, Shenyang" global promotion event took place in Munich on Friday, drawing over 100 attendees,...

Azerbaijan ready to participate in resolving Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Aliyev

Azerbaijan ready to participate in resolving Russia-Ukraine Conflict:...

Baku [Azerbaijan], September 8: Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has expressed a willingness to participate in resolving the ongoing conflict between...