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UAE leaders condole with Korean President on passing of his father

UAE leaders condole with Korean President on passing...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], August 16: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a message of condolences...

UAE expresses concern over developments in Libya's Tripoli and calls for dialogue and end to hostilities

UAE expresses concern over developments in Libya's Tripoli...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], August 16: The UAE has expressed its concern over the developments in Tripoli, the capital of...

Neymar Jr. officially signs with Saudi club Al-Hilal

Neymar Jr. officially signs with Saudi club Al-Hilal

Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], August 16: Al-Hilal Club announced that it has agreed terms to sign prolific goalscorer Neymar Jr. The...

45-year-old man charged after disruptions force int'l flight back to Sydney

45-year-old man charged after disruptions force int'l flight...

Sydney [Australia], August 15: A 45-year-old man was charged on Tuesday after causing disruptions to an international flight from Australia...

Singapore, Chile sign MoU to collaborate on carbon markets, carbon pricing

Singapore, Chile sign MoU to collaborate on carbon...

Singapore, August 15: Singapore and Chile signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on carbon markets and carbon pricing...

Four Australians, three Indonesians missing after boat loses contact off Aceh

Four Australians, three Indonesians missing after boat loses...

Jakarta [Indonesia], August 15: Four Australian tourists and three Indonesian crew were missing off the eastern coast of Indonesia's Aceh...

Argentinian libertarian populist Milei wins presidential primary

Argentinian libertarian populist Milei wins presidential primary

Buenos Aires [Argentina], August 15: The libertarian populist Javier Milei has won Sunday's presidential primaries in Argentina, according to media...

Kiev reports progress near Bakhmut, other small gains in Donetsk

Kiev reports progress near Bakhmut, other small gains...

Kiev [Ukraine], August 15: Ukrainian troops are making progress in recapturing territory near the Russian-controlled city of Bakhmut in eastern...

Poland to hold referendum on border fence with Belarus: Defence minister

Poland to hold referendum on border fence with...

Warsaw [Poland], August 15: Poland is to let its citizens give their view on whether to keep a fence on...

International artists stand up for political prisoners in Belarus

International artists stand up for political prisoners in...

Minsk [Belarus], August 15: Thirteen prominent cultural figures have spoken out for the disappeared political prisoners in Belarus. In an...

Britain blames 'criminal gangs' for Channel migrant deaths

Britain blames 'criminal gangs' for Channel migrant deaths

London [UK], August 15: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak blames the "criminal gangs" facilitating small boat Channel crossings for the...

Families of Libya mass grave victims demand justice

Families of Libya mass grave victims demand justice

Tripoli [Libya], August 15: A photograph of MouradAllafi hangs in the family farmhouse in western Libya three years after he...

Zuck and Musk throw verbal jabs over cage match

Zuck and Musk throw verbal jabs over cage...

Washington [US], August 15: Billionaires and social media business rivals Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk threw new online jabs at...

Central Japan braces for Typhoon Lan

Central Japan braces for Typhoon Lan

Tokyo [Japan], August 15: Japan braced for Typhoon Lan to make landfall, with airlines and railways cancelling services in central...

Covid Eris new variant EG.5

Covid Eris new variant EG.5

New York [US], August 15: COVID infections and hospitalizations are on the rise in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Mount Etna eruption closes Sicily's Catania airport

Mount Etna eruption closes Sicily's Catania airport

Rome [Italy], August 15: Flights serving the eastern Sicilian city of Catania were halted after an eruption from nearby Mount...

Fire at Russian gas station kills 12, injures over 60

Fire at Russian gas station kills 12, injures...

Moscow [Russia], August 15: A fire at a gas station in the southern Russian region of Dagestan killed 12 people...

Britain warns of possible terrorist attacks in Sweden

Britain warns of possible terrorist attacks in Sweden

London [UK], August 15: Britain on Sunday warned citizens going to Sweden of possible terrorist attacks following Koran burnings by...

Latvia's prime minister announces resignation

Latvia's prime minister announces resignation

Riga [Latvia], August 15: Latvian Prime Minister KrisjanisKarins announced his resignation on Monday.

Abdullah bin Zayed, German FM discuss strategic partnership over phone

Abdullah bin Zayed, German FM discuss strategic partnership...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], August 15:H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, discussed with AnnalenaBaerbock, Germany's Federal...

Two UAE astronauts conduct spacewalk training at NASA's neutral buoyancy lab

Two UAE astronauts conduct spacewalk training at NASA's...

Houston [US], August 15: As part of NASA's 2021 astronaut candidate class training programme, Emirati astronauts Nora Al Matrooshi and...

UAE condemns terrorist attack on religious shrine in Shiraz, Iran

UAE condemns terrorist attack on religious shrine in...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], August 15: The UAE has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that targeted a religious shrine in the...

Palestinian authorities record cases of new coronavirus variant EG.5

Palestinian authorities record cases of new coronavirus variant...

Ramallah [Palestine], August 14: The Palestinian Ministry of Health said Sunday that 50-100 cases of the new COVID-19 variant EG.5...

Somalia, UN agencies roll out cholera vaccination drive

Somalia, UN agencies roll out cholera vaccination drive

Mogadishu [Somalia], August 14: Somalia and the UN agencies said Sunday they are rolling out a five-day cholera vaccination campaign...

Germany marks 62nd anniversary of construction of Berlin Wall

Germany marks 62nd anniversary of construction of Berlin...

Berlin [Germany], August 14: Berlin and its surrounding area were marking the 62nd anniversary of the construction of the Berlin...

Heatwave hits people in emergency shelters in Turkish quake zone

Heatwave hits people in emergency shelters in Turkish...

Istanbul [Turkey], August 14: People in south-eastern Turkey were struggling with intense heat at the weekend some six months after...

Iraq unblocks Telegram after one-week ban

Iraq unblocks Telegram after one-week ban

Cairo [Egypt], August 14: Iraq has said it will lift a ban on Telegram starting from Sunday, aweek after the...