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Salvini claims 'useful service' for Italy at migrant trial

Salvini claims 'useful service' for Italy at migrant...

Rome [Italy], January 13: A defiant Matteo Salvini, Italy's far-right deputy prime minister, defended his hard line against illegal migration...

Families of Ecuador hostages demand action

Families of Ecuador hostages demand action

Quito [Ecuador], January 13: Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa laid out plans for two new high-security prisons.

China is open to contact, talks with Canada

China is open to contact, talks with Canada

Beijing [China], January 13: China does not want a continuation of the "current difficult situation" in relations with Canada.

Strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen show war in Gaza has already spread

Strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen show war...

Gaza [Palestine], January 13: It is time to stop talking about the risk that the war in Gaza will spread...

Arctic blast: Record-breaking cold weather forecast for many states

Arctic blast: Record-breaking cold weather forecast for many...

Washington [US], January 13: A massive winter storm has begun rolling across the US and is predicted to bring dangerously...

Boeing: US regulator to increase oversight of firm after blowout

Boeing: US regulator to increase oversight of firm...

Washington [US], January 13: For years, the FAA has delegated some parts of quality reviewing of planes to Boeing, but...

U.S. carries out new strike in Yemen after Biden vows to keep pressure on

U.S. carries out new strike in Yemen after...

Washington [US], January 13: The United States carried out an additional strike against Yemen's Houthi forces on Friday, two officials...

France's new PM tilts his cabinet to the right

France's new PM tilts his cabinet to the...

Paris [France], January 13: France's youngest-ever PM Gabriel Attal has kept on most of the heavyweights from the outgoing government.

Both sides play heavy on emotion in ICJ hearing

Both sides play heavy on emotion in ICJ...

The Hague [Netherlands], January 13: The UN's top legal body has now heard two days of powerful legal argument on...

Egypt denies suspending navigation through Suez Canal

Egypt denies suspending navigation through Suez Canal

Cairo [Egypt], January 13: Lieutenant General Osama Rabie, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, stated that navigation movement in the...

Residents in Western Australia urged to flee as wildfire rages

Residents in Western Australia urged to flee as...

Canberra [Australia], January 13: Residents in the state of Western Australia were urged to evacuate their homes on Saturday, as...

North Korea poised to admit first known tourists since 2020

North Korea poised to admit first known tourists...

Seoul [South Korea], January 12: A group from Russia is poised to be the first known tourists allowed into North...

UN spokesperson highlights dire humanitarian situation in northern Gaza

UN spokesperson highlights dire humanitarian situation in northern...

New York [US], January 12: A UN spokesperson on Thursday highlighted the worsening humanitarian crisis in northern Gaza, emphasizing significant...

Myanmar navy seizes 1.45 tons of narcotic drugs

Myanmar navy seizes 1.45 tons of narcotic drugs

Yangon [Myanmar], January 12: Myanmar navy has seized 1.45 tons of Methamphetamine (ICE) in its territorial waters, according to the...

Gaza hospitals cut off from UN aid as Israel intensifies bombing

Gaza hospitals cut off from UN aid as...

Tel Aviv [Israel], January 12: Repeated refusals by Israeli authorities to allow UN aid teams to deliver the desperately needed...

Blinken sees 'concrete steps forward' as he ends Middle East trip

Blinken sees 'concrete steps forward' as he ends...

Washington [US], January 12: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said the war in Gaza "is not escalating"...

Sheikh Hasina sworn in for fifth term as Bangladesh's premier

Sheikh Hasina sworn in for fifth term as...

Dhaka [Bangladesh], January 12: Sheikh Hasina was sworn in for a another term as Bangladesh's prime minister on Thursday, less...

Zelensky says ceasefire would allow Russia to regroup and rearm

Zelensky says ceasefire would allow Russia to regroup...

Kyiv [Russia], January 12: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has firmly rejected the idea of a ceasefire with Russia, saying it...

Azerbaijan demands land corridor through Armenia

Azerbaijan demands land corridor through Armenia

Moscow [Russia], January 12: The Caucasus republic of Azerbaijan is demanding that neighbouring Armenia establish a land corridor free of...

Trump attends closing arguments in NYC fraud trial

Trump attends closing arguments in NYC fraud trial

New York [US], January 12: The last day of Donald Trump's months-long Manhattan fraud trial started on time Thursday despite...

US, Britain carry out strikes against Houthis in Yemen

US, Britain carry out strikes against Houthis in...

Washington [US], January 12: The United States and Britain have started carrying out strikes against targets linked to Houthis in...

Ukraine builds barricades, digs trenches as focus shifts to defence

Ukraine builds barricades, digs trenches as focus shifts...

Kyiv [Ukraine], January 12: Rows of white concrete barricades and coils of razor wire stretch across an open field for...

Reaction to South Africa's UN court case against Israel's war in Gaza

Reaction to South Africa's UN court case against...

Tel Aviv [Israel], January 12: South Africa accused Israel of subjecting Palestinians to genocidal acts at the opening of hearings...

Russia's Medvedev warns of nuclear response

Russia's Medvedev warns of nuclear response

Moscow [Russia], January 12: A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin warned that any Ukrainian attacks on missile launch sites...

Tens of thousands protest in Poland against ex-ministers' imprisonment

Tens of thousands protest in Poland against ex-ministers'...

Warsaw [Poland], January 12: Tens of thousands of opposition supporters massed outside Poland's parliament to protest against the new government's...

Iran seizes oil tanker involved in US-Iran dispute in Gulf of Oman

Iran seizes oil tanker involved in US-Iran dispute...

Tehran [Iran], January 12: The St Nikolas was boarded by armed intruders as it sailed close to the Omani city...

Netanyahu condemns ICJ genocide case

Netanyahu condemns ICJ genocide case

Tel Aviv [Israel], January 12: Benjamin Netanyahu condemned South Africa's genocide case against Israel in Gaza as "hypocrisy and lies".