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La Nina threatens Latin America with hurricanes and...
Washington [US], July 3: Latin America and the Caribbean should brace for the arrival of La Nina, the climate pattern...

Trump hush money sentencing delayed to September, weeks...
Washington [US], July 3: Donald Trump's sentencing for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a...

Sixth EU-UAE Structural Dialogue on AML/CFT concludes in...
Brussels [Belgium], July 3: The sixth EU-UAE Structural Dialogue on Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) was...

Souq Al Jubail Dates Festival launches its ninth...
Sharjah [UAE], July 3: Activities of the ninth annual Souq Al Jubail Dates Festival were launched in Sharjah, which will...

Alef Education, KICD, UNICEF sign landmark agreement on...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], July 3: Alef Education, the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD), and UNICEF today announced the signing...

Abdullah bin Zayed, Antony Blinken discuss regional developments,...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], July 3: H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, during a phone...

US Supreme Court: Trump immune for official acts
Washington [US], July 2: The U.S. Supreme Court found that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for any actions that were...

Russia imposes entry ban on 99 Canadians
Moscow [Russia], July 2: Russia issued a permanent entry ban on 99 Canadian citizens as a countermeasure, the Russian...

Finnish parliament approves defense pact with U.S.
Helsinki [Finland], July 2: The Finnish parliament has approved the Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) with the United States, announced the...

Taliban seeks sanctions relief and aid for farmers...
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 2: The Taliban delegation outlined its priorities on Monday at a two-day UN conference on Afghanistan. The...

Opinion poll round-up with three days to go...
London [UK], July 2: Four opinion polls for Thursday's UK general election have been published in the last 24 hours,...

Poland's Tusk issues warning after far-right gains in...
Warsaw [Poland], July 2: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk issued a warning on Monday following far-right gains in the first...

Biden's family urges him to stay in White...
Washington [US], July 2: Democratic President Joe Biden's family has urged him to ignore calls to step aside following his...

Emergency declared in Russia's Sakha
Moscow [Russia], July 2: The authorities in the Sakha (Yakutia) region in Russia's Far East have declared an emergency...

S Koreans surge to sign online petition to...
Seoul [South Korea], July 2: An online petition calling for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to be impeached experienced...

UK govt, BA sued over 1990 Kuwait hostage...
London [UK], July 2: Passengers and crew of a British Airways flight who were taken hostage in Kuwait in 1990...

Rockets fired into Israel, tanks advance in Gaza
Gaza [Palestine], July 2: The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad fired a barrage of rockets into Israel on Monday as...

Rival French parties seek to build anti-far right...
Paris [France], July 2: Opponents of France's far-right sought to build a united front to block the path to government...

Google to require disclosures for altered election ads
California [US], July 2: Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab said on Monday it would make it mandatory for advertisers to...

Hurricane Beryl 'extremely dangerous' as it gains strength...
Washington [US], July 2: Hurricane Beryl unleashed powerful winds over the Eastern Caribbean on Monday, downing power lines and ripping...

AlQurm Protected Area in Khor Kalba joins IOSEA...
Sharjah [UAE], July 2: The Environment and Protected Areas Authority in Sharjah (EPAA) announced that the AlQurm Protected Area in...

Abdullah bin Zayed receives Minister of Foreign Affairs...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], July 2: H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, received Abdoulaye Diop, Minister...

UAE President congratulates Mauritanian President on election win...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], July 2: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today held a phone call with...

5 killed, 60 injured in natural gas explosion...
Istanbul [Turkey], July 1: A natural gas explosion in Türkiye's western province of Izmir on Sunday killed five people and...

Chinese government unveils stricter rules around rare earths
Berlin [Germany], July 1: China's government has issued stricter regulations on rare earths, adding punishments for illegal mining, processing, imports...

Reformist Iranian presidential candidate opposes online censorship
Tehran [Iran], July 1: Reformist Iranian presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has positioned himself against internet censorship in the country days...

Hungary's Orban announces new far-right European party alliance
Vienna [Austria], July 1: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced in Vienna on Sunday an alliance with populist parties from...