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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...
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
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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
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
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
Pyongyang [North Korea], December 20: North Korea's leader threatened "more offensive actions" against military threats after supervising the third test...
Sudan: 300,000 flee as RSF advance on key...
Khartoum [Sudan], December 20: As many as 300,000 people have fled fighting on a new front in Sudan's war, the...