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Maldivians return to polls to vote in presidential...
Colombo [Sri Lanka], September 30: The second round of presidential election in the Maldives kicked off on Saturday, after no...

Brazil's Lula undergoes hip surgery 'without complications': doctor
Brasilia [Brazil], September 30: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is awake and recovering from hip surgery on Friday,...

Putin discusses Ukraine war with top Wagner commander...
Moscow [Russia], September 30: Russian President Vladimir Putin was on Friday shown meeting one of the most senior former commanders...

Migrants are being raped at Mexico border as...
Mexico City [Mexico], September 30: When Carolina's captors arrived at dawn to pull her out of the stash house in...

Republicans reject own funding bill, US government shutdown...
Washington [US], September 30: Hardline Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a bill proposed by their...

Sweden to call in military to help crack...
Stockholm [Sweden], September 30: Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson was meeting the head of Sweden's armed forces and the police chief...

Riyadh hosts World Tourism Day with participation of...
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], September 30: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday hosted the events of World Tourism Day 2023 under the theme...

Heavy rainfall, floods New York City bring to...
New York [US], September 30: Severe rainfall battered New York City on Friday causing widespread disruptions as subways and airports...

Abu Dhabi Police Commander-in-Chief meets Commissioner of Israeli...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 30: Staff Major General Pilot FarisKhalaf Al Mazrouei, Abu Dhabi Police Commander-in-Chief, met Commissioner of the...

ADAFSA to develop integrated strategy to reduce food...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 30: The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA) is intensifying its efforts to develop...

Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed meets Prime Minister...
Tirana [Albania], September 30: H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, has met...
U.S. California's surging gas prices spark call to...
California [US], September 29: The U.S. state of California is again witnessing gasoline prices soar to near record highs, sparking...
Australian Defence Force helicopters retired following fatal crash
Canberra [Australia], September 29: The Australian Defence Force's fleet of MRH-90 Taipan helicopters have been retired early following a fatal...
Expansion of North Korea nuclear force enshrined in...
Pyongyang [North Korea],September 29: North Korean law now allows for its nuclear force to be expanded after the policy was...
Taiwan launches its first domestically built submarine
Taipei [Taiwan], September 29: Taiwan launched its first domestically built submarine on Thursday. President Tsai Ing-wen said building submarines domestically...
Stoltenberg, in Kiev, sees progress in Ukrainian counteroffensive
Kiev [Ukraine], September 29: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met President VolodymyrZelensky in Kiev on Thursday during his second visit...
Biden warns democracies 'can die when people are...
Washington [US], September 29: President Joe Biden urged Americans to stand up for democracy in a speech Thursday that accused...
Vietnam jails environmental activist for 3 years for...
Hanoi [Vietnam],September 29: A Vietnamese court has sentenced an environmental activist to three years in prison on charges of tax...
Shutdown odds grow as Senate, House advance separate...
Washington [US], September 29: The Democratic-led U.S. Senate forged ahead with a bipartisan stopgap funding bill aimed at averting a...
Karabakh Armenians dissolve breakaway government in capitulation to...
Yerevan [Armenia], September 29: Ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh said they were dissolving the breakaway statelet they had defended for three...

Appeals court will not delay Donald Trump civil...
New York [US], September 29: A New York appeals court refused to delay Donald Trump's scheduled Oct. 2 civil fraud...

Powerful blast in Uzbek capital kills one, injures...
Tashkent [Uzbekistan], September 29: One person was killed and 162 injured by a powerful explosion at a warehouse near Tashkent's...

Student gunman kills three in Rotterdam university shooting
Amsterdam [Netherlands], September 29: A gunman killed three people in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Thursday, shooting a local...

Heavy rain hits north Vietnam, halting traffic in...
Hanoi [Vietnam], September 29: Heavy rain from a tropical depression hit northern and north-central Vietnam, causing flooding that halted traffic...

Spain: Teen stabs three teachers, two students
Madrid [Spain], September 29: Police in Spain detained a teenager for stabbing three teachers and two students at a school...

Greece: Storm Elias wreaks havoc on city of...
Athens [Greece], September 29: A second powerful storm turned streets into rivers in central Greece on Thursday.

UAE calls for de-escalation and return to dialogue...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 29: The UAE affirmed that it is following with great concern the recent tensions between the...