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Iran starts air defence drills at Natanz nuclear facility

Iran starts air defence drills at Natanz nuclear...

Tehran [Iran], January 8: Amid rising tensions with Israel and with less than two weeks left before the inauguration of...

US transfers 11 Yemeni inmates from Guantanamo Bay prison to Oman

US transfers 11 Yemeni inmates from Guantanamo Bay...

Washington [US], January 8: The United States has sent 11 Yemeni detainees of the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison to Oman,...

Aid efforts in Gaza at breaking point: UN

Aid efforts in Gaza at breaking point: UN

Gaza [Palestine], January 8: The efforts of United Nations agencies to supply humanitarian aid in Gaza are at "breaking point",...

Hungarian officials criticize U.S. sanctions on gov't minister

Hungarian officials criticize U.S. sanctions on gov't minister

Budapest [Hungary], January 8: Hungary's foreign minister criticized the outgoing U.S. administration and its ambassador on Tuesday for imposing sanctions...

Two killed, one injured in shooting in Germany

Two killed, one injured in shooting in Germany

Berlin [Germany], January 8: Two men were shot dead and one got injured on Tuesday evening at a company in...

Slovenia's 2024 budget deficit lowest in 5 yrs

Slovenia's 2024 budget deficit lowest in 5 yrs

Ljubljana [Slovenia], January 8: Slovenia's budget deficit fell to 1.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024, according to...

News Analysis: Experts expect gradual ECB rate cuts despite rising eurozone inflation

News Analysis: Experts expect gradual ECB rate cuts...

Brussels [Belgium], January 8: Eurozone inflation, as Eurostat reported, hit 2.4 percent in December, the highest since July, but experts...

Earthquake in Tibet kills more than 120

Earthquake in Tibet kills more than 120

Lhasa [Tibet], January 8: A strong earthquake, opens new tab struck the foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's...

US, Taliban in talks to swap detainees

US, Taliban in talks to swap detainees

Washington DC [US], January 8: The Biden administration is negotiating with Afghanistan to exchange Americans detained in the country for...

Ghana's Mahama returns as president, vowing to boost economy

Ghana's Mahama returns as president, vowing to boost...

Accra [Ghana], January 8: John Dramani Mahama was sworn in for a second term as Ghana's president at a ceremony...

Austrian far right demands conservatives be 'honest' in coalition talks

Austrian far right demands conservatives be 'honest' in...

Vienna [Austria], January 8: Austrian far-right Freedom Party (FPO) leader Herbert Kickl called on the conservative People's Party (OVP) to...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's post-war far right, dies aged 96

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's post-war far...

Paris [France], January 8: Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front party who tapped into blue-collar anger...

Trump will not rule out force to take Panama Canal, Greenland

Trump will not rule out force to take...

Nuuk [Greenland], January 8: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump refused on Tuesday to rule out using military or economic action to...

Egypt discovers 4,000-year-old tomb near Cairo

Egypt discovers 4,000-year-old tomb near Cairo

Cairo [Egypt], January 7: A joint French-Swiss archaeological mission has discovered an over 4,000-year-old mastaba at the Saqqara archaeological site,...

US Congress ratifies Trump's victory

US Congress ratifies Trump's victory

New York [US], January 7: As President of the US Senate, US Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost to Mr....

First person dies of bird flu in the US

First person dies of bird flu in the...

New York [US], January 7: On January 6, the Louisiana Department of Health announced that a patient over 65 years...

Suspicious fire engulfs Caulfield Racecourse grandstand

Suspicious fire engulfs Caulfield Racecourse grandstand

Melbourne [Australia], January 7: A suspicious blaze has engulfed a Caulfield Racecourse grandstand, sparking a police investigation.

Indonesia joins BRICS bloc as full member

Indonesia joins BRICS bloc as full member

Bali [Indonesia], January 7: Brazil's government said in a statement that Indonesia is formally joining BRICS as a full member,...

Blinken calls for push to get Gaza truce deal over 'finish line'

Blinken calls for push to get Gaza truce...

New York [US], January 7: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for a final push for a Gaza ceasefire...

Three Israelis killed in northern West Bank Shooting

Three Israelis killed in northern West Bank Shooting

Gaza [Palestine], January 7: Three Israelis were killed and several injured in a shooting attack on a car and bus...

Venezuela to free 146 more election protesters

Venezuela to free 146 more election protesters

Caracas [Venezuela], January 7: Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek Saab said that 146 more people arrested after a July election are...

Russians capture strategic town of Kurakhove in east Ukraine

Russians capture strategic town of Kurakhove in east...

Moscow [Russia] / Kiev [Ukraine], January 7: Russian troops have captured the strategically important small town of Kurakhove in the...

Far-right Freedom Party of Austria tasked with forming government

Far-right Freedom Party of Austria tasked with forming...

Vienna [Austria], January 7: Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen has officially tasked the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)...

Canada's Trudeau resigns as party leader and PM

Canada's Trudeau resigns as party leader and PM

New York [US], January 7: Justin Trudeau said on Monday he plans to step down as leader of his governing...

Indonesia gives free meals to children and pregnant women

Indonesia gives free meals to children and pregnant...

Bali [Indonesia], January 7: Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious multibillion-dollar programme to provide free meals to more than a quarter...

Israel and Hamas close to hostage deal: Report

Israel and Hamas close to hostage deal: Report

Gaza [Palestine], January 7: Hamas has approved a list of 34 Israeli hostages to be exchanged in a possible ceasefire...

HMPV virus cases rising across world

HMPV virus cases rising across world

Beijing [China], January 7: A Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) outbreak in China has sparked global concern, prompting countries like India to...