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UN welcomes progress in Gaza polio campaign, calls...
Gaza [Palestine], September 5: Good progress is being made in rolling out a polio vaccine to children in Gaza but...

Biden preparing to block Nippon's US Steel takeover
New York [US], September 5: U.S. President Joe Biden is preparing to block Nippon Steel's acquisition of U.S. Steel, a...

US to accuse Russia of 2024 election interference
New York [US], September 5: The United States is to accuse Russia of a sustained campaign to interfere in the...

Irish PM slams Russian 'terrorism and barbarism' during...
Kiev [Ukraine], September 5: The war in Ukraine cannot "fade into the background", Irish premier Simon Harris has said during...

Israel using 'war-like' tactics in West Bank, says...
New York [US], September 5: Israeli forces are using "lethal war-like tactics" in the occupied West Bank, according to the...

Typhoon Yagi claims 16 lives, affects over 1.7...
Manila [Philippines], September 5: The death toll from floods and landslides caused by typhoon Yagi has reached 16 in the...

Ukraine foreign minister latest to announce departure from...
Kiev [Ukraine], September 5: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is also leaving his post as part of a major government...

Former French PM Édouard Philippe confirms 2027 presidential...
Paris [France], September 5: Former French prime minister Édouard Philippe, considered one of the country's most popular politicians, has announced...

Turkish and Egyptian leaders stress joint stance on...
Istanbul [Turkey], September 5: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi on Wednesday called for a ceasefire...

London's Grenfell Tower blaze victims let down by...
London [UK], September 5: A damning report into the Grenfell Tower fire has found victims, bereaved and survivors were "badly...

UAE pardons 57 Bangladeshi expats jailed for anti-Hasina...
Dubai [UAE], September 5: The president of the United Arab Emirates has pardoned 57 Bangladeshi citizens jailed for holding protests...

Expedition shows Titanic is disintegrating
California [US], September 5: The Titanic is decaying in its ocean grave, footage from a recent exploration has shown, with...

Eleven dead after school bus crashes into students...
Beijing [China], September 5: Eleven people, including five schoolchildren, died after a school bus crashed into a group of students...

Aid agencies warn of historic hunger crisis in...
Geneva [Switzerland], September 5: Aid agencies warned on Tuesday that Sudan faces a hunger emergency amid its civil war but...

Monsoon rains and flooding in two months claim...
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 5: Heavy rains and flooding claimed the lives of at least 320 people in Pakistan over the...

Germany holds cross-party talks in wake of deadly...
Berlin [Germany], September 5: Several German political leaders demanded stricter asylum and immigration policies ahead of a cross-party meeting on...

129 killed in Congo in attempted prison break
Kinshasa [Democratic Republic of Congo], September 5: At least 129 people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo...

Arrests, violence and destruction continue in raided West...
Gaza [Palestine], September 4: Arrests, violence and destruction have been reported as the Israeli military continued to mount raids across...

UAE pardons 57 Bangladeshi expats jailed for anti-Hasina...
Dubai [UAE], September 4: The president of the United Arab Emirates has pardoned 57 Bangladeshi citizens jailed for holding...

Russia raids many provinces, clashes hundreds of times...
Kyiv [Ukraine], September 4: Ukraine's Interior Ministry accused Russia of attacking a hotel area, killing a 38-year-old woman and her...

President Biden gives a boost to Ms. Harris
Washington [US], September 4: US President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris appeared together at a Labor Day rally in...

OPEC changes strategy to lower oil prices?
Washington [USA], September 4: Recently, OPEC + has advocated cutting production to push oil prices up. However, in reality, due...

US close to agreement on long-range missile transfer...
Kyiv [Ukraine], September 4: According to Reuters, citing three anonymous US officials, the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile ( JASSM )...

Former Philippine mayor suspected of being Chinese arrested
Manila [Philippines], September 4: The Philippine Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) confirmed on September 4...

At least 12 migrants dead after vessel capsizes...
London [UK], September 4: At least 12 migrants died on Tuesday after their boat capsized on its way across the...

Finland to spend more on defence, NATO and...
Helsinki [Finland], September 4: Finland's ruling centre-right coalition plans to spend more on NATO membership, defence and security in 2025,...

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine shot in leg
Kampala [Uganda], September 4: Uganda's main opposition leader Bobi Wine, who has emerged as the most formidable opponent of veteran...