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Australia rebuffs U.S. request for warship in Red Sea

Australia rebuffs U.S. request for warship in Red...

Canberra [Australia], December 21: The Australian government has announced that it will not send a warship to the Red Sea...

Behind the 'revolution' led by Myanmar's ethnic minority fighters

Behind the 'revolution' led by Myanmar's ethnic minority...

Namhsan [Myanmar], December 21: Pickup trucks carrying ethnic minority fighters rolled into a town in Myanmar's northeastern Shan state...

Survivors of China's deadliest quake brave freezing cold

Survivors of China's deadliest quake brave freezing cold

Jishishan [China], December 21: Survivors of China's deadliest earthquake in years huddled in makeshift aid tents despite freezing temperatures on...

Egypt seeks to broker Gaza ceasefire as Hamas

Egypt seeks to broker Gaza ceasefire as Hamas

Cairo [Egypt], December 21: The U.S. said "very serious" negotiations were taking place on a new Gaza ceasefire and release...

Polish government takes public TV news channel off air amid reform drive

Polish government takes public TV news channel off...

Warsaw [Poland], December 21: Poland's new government took a public news channel off the air on Wednesday and dismissed executives...

Macron defends new French migration law despite political tensions

Macron defends new French migration law despite political...

Paris [France], December 21: French President Emmanuel Macron defended a bill to toughen immigration laws despite an embarrassing parliamentary vote...

Trump urges US Supreme Court not to expedite 2020 immunity claim

Trump urges US Supreme Court not to expedite...

Washington [US], December 21: Former President Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request by federal prosecutors...

Anti-war candidate Duntsova applies to run in election against Russia's Putin

Anti-war candidate Duntsova applies to run in election...

Moscow [Russia], December 21: Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova put her name forward on Wednesday to stand in a Russian...

Biden attacks Trump's anti-immigrant 'blood' comments in Wisconsin visit

Biden attacks Trump's anti-immigrant 'blood' comments in Wisconsin...

Washington [US], December 21: U.S. President Joe Biden criticized presidential opponent Donald Trump's recent anti-immigrant comments as he visited a...

Ukrainians prepare for first wartime Christmas on new calendar

Ukrainians prepare for first wartime Christmas on new...

Kyiv [Ukraine], December 21: Ukrainians are gearing up to celebrate their first Christmas according to a new calendar, another step...

Kazakhstan starts building new railroad to China

Kazakhstan starts building new railroad to China

Astana [Kazakhstan], December 21: Abai region of Kazakhstan started building a new 272 km-long railway line en route Bakhty-Ayagoz, a...

German court orders repeat of 2021 election in parts of Berlin

German court orders repeat of 2021 election in...

Berlin [Germany], December 20: Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that the 2021 national election must be repeated in...

NASA to launch new mission to help build 3D map of Milky Way

NASA to launch new mission to help build...

Los Angeles [US], December 20: NASA is preparing to launch a new mission that will stare at the space between...

Mexican president to challenge U.S. new anti-immigrant law

Mexican president to challenge U.S. new anti-immigrant law

Mexico City [Mexico], December 20: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday that his government plans to challenge...

Italy to request 5th installment of EU recovery fund

Italy to request 5th installment of EU recovery...

Rome [Italy], December 20: Italy said on Tuesday it is on course to formally request the fifth installment of the...

Australian government defends weather agency from criticism amid floods

Australian government defends weather agency from criticism amid...

Canberra [Australia], December 20: Australia's Emergency Management Minister has defended the weather service agency from criticism over its warning system...

UN official warns attacks likely to rise in Gaza over holiday period

UN official warns attacks likely to rise in...

Geneva [Switzerland], December 20: A senior United Nations (UN) official on Tuesday warned that the holiday period would likely bring...

Zelensky: "No one knows" when Russia-Ukraine conflict ends

Zelensky: "No one knows" when Russia-Ukraine conflict ends

Kyiv [Ukraine], December 20: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at his annual press conference on Tuesday that "no one...

Radio sets make a comeback in war-torn Gaza

Radio sets make a comeback in war-torn Gaza

Gaza [Gaza Strip], December 20: Before war broke out in Gaza, Mahmud al-Daoudi could never have imagined the radio sets...

Erdogan, Orban pledge deeper ties in Budapest

Erdogan, Orban pledge deeper ties in Budapest

Budapest [Hungary], December 20: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that he would seek deeper ties with Hungary's Prime...

Ukraine army short of new recruits for front

Ukraine army short of new recruits for front

Bakhmut [Ukraine], December 20: After 22 months of war with a horrific human cost, the Ukrainian army is struggling to...

Putin says Russia is ready to talk on Ukraine

Putin says Russia is ready to talk on...

Moscow [Russia], December 20: President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia would be prepared to talk to Ukraine, the...

Iceland volcano unlikely to impact flights; lava flows away from town

Iceland volcano unlikely to impact flights; lava flows...

Reykjavík [Iceland], December 20: Lava spewing from a volcano in Iceland appeared to be flowing away from the only nearby...

US judge halts removal of Confederate Memorial at Arlington Cemetery

US judge halts removal of Confederate Memorial at...

Washington [US], December 20: A federal judge on Monday ordered a halt to the removal of a Confederate monument at...

Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Trump from holding office

Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Trump from holding office

Washington [US], December 20: The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday disqualified former President Donald Trump from the ballot in the...

Kim Jong Un warns US after North Korea ICBM test

Kim Jong Un warns US after North Korea...

Pyongyang [North Korea], December 20: North Korea's leader threatened "more offensive actions" against military threats after supervising the third test...

Dubai Municipality Launches Future Foresight Plan

Dubai Municipality Launches Future Foresight Plan

Dubai [UAE], December 20: Dubai Municipality has announced the launch of its Future Foresight Plan which provides a roadmap for...