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Japan starts self-driving bus test runs in Tokyo
Tokyo [Japan], October 3: The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has kicked off its test runs of a self-driving bus, as Japan...

New head of UN organisation aims to change...
Geneva [Switzerland], October 3: The new director general of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday stressed the benefits...

The US stopped military aid to Ukraine for...
Washington [US], October 3: US President Joe Biden is pressuring Republican lawmakers to include a provision for increased aid to...

Britain announced a huge contract for the nuclear...
Britain [UK], October 3: The British Ministry of Defense said SSNAUKUS will be the largest, most advanced and powerful attack...

Mexican President condemns US military aid to Ukraine
Mexico City [Mexico], October 3: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador criticized the US's "unreasonable" military aid to Ukraine, saying...

India's monsoon rains hit five-year low due to...
New Delhi [India], October 3: India's monsoon rainfall this year was its lowest since 2018 as the El Nino weather...

Bangladesh dengue deaths top 1,000 in worst outbreak
Dhaka [Bangladesh], October 3: The death toll from Bangladesh's worst dengue outbreak on record has topped 1,000 this year, official...

UN authorizes Haiti security mission to fight gangs
New York [US], October 3: The United Nations Security Council on Monday authorized a foreign security mission to Haiti, a...

Australia PM rallies support for Indigenous referendum as...
Sydney [Australia], October 3: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he would focus on having one-on-one conversations with Australians to...

More than 100 Amazon dolphins found dead, heat...
Washington [US], October 3: The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating on a tributary of the Amazon...

Trump reaped over $1 billion in fraud
New York [US], October 3: Donald Trump attacked New York's attorney general and the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial.

UAE invites GCC Ministers of Health to attend...
Dubai [UAE], October 3: Abdulrahman bin Mohamed Al Owais, Minister of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has once again invited GCC...

Dubai Culture and Expo School Programme enhance teachers'...
Dubai [UAE], October 3: In celebration of World Teachers' Day and in recognition of the role and efforts of the...

WHO, WADA sign MoU to collaborate on clean,...
Geneva [Switzerland], October 3: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have signed a four-year memorandum...

Australian gov't to crack down on student visa...
Canberra [Australia], October 2: The Australian government has announced a crackdown on international student visa scams.

Schools in Libya's Derna reopen after deadly floods
Tripoli [Libya], October 2: Schools were reopened Sunday in the eastern city of Derna, which was hit by deadly floods...

Indonesian president declares operation of Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway
Jakarta [Indonesia], October 2: Indonesian President Joko Widodo declared the official operation of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) at Halim...

Iraq investigators blame fatal wedding fire on ignored...
Cairo [Egypt], October 2: Investigators in Iraq say a fire that killed more than a hundred people at a wedding...

Top EU diplomat is counting on continued US...
Kyiv [Ukraine], October 2: EU foreign policy chief JosepBorrell is counting on the United States to continue security assistance to...

Coalition talks loom after win for former Slovak...
Bratislava [Slovakia], October 2: Slovakia's former prime minister Robert Fico and his left-wing nationalist party have won the country's parliamentary...

UN mission visits Karabakh, first in 30 years
Lachin[Azerbaijan], October 2: A United Nations mission visited Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijan said, after almost the entire ethnic-Armenian population fled...

Erdogan defiant after PKK attack
Ankara [Turkey], October 2: Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan said Sunday that "terrorists" will never achieve their aims, hours after a...

McCarthy vows to survive ouster threat for avoiding...
Washington [US], October 2: Top U.S. House Republican Kevin McCarthy said he expected to survive a threat to his speakership...

Swiss trial acquits man who admitted abducting Belarus...
Geneva [Switzerland], October 2: YuryGaravsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent...

Spain: Nightclub fire kills 13 in Murcia
Murcia[Spain], October 2: At least 13 people have died in a fire that engulfed three nightclubs in the south-eastern Spanish...

Mourners hail dead Russian mercenary Prigozhin as hero...
Moscow [Russia], October 2: At memorials to Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in an unexplained plane crash exactly 40 days...

Nigeria's President Tinubu increases wages as national strike...
Abuja [Nigeria], October 2: Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has announced a six-month increase to the minimum wage as workers are...