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Hundreds battling wildfire near Cape Town in South...
Cape Town [South Africa], December 21: Hundreds of firefighters were battling a wildfire for a second day Wednesday on a...
German authorities shut down illegal darknet marketplace
Berlin [Germany], December 21: German authorities have shut down the server infrastructure of the illegal darknet marketplace "Kingdom Market," the...
Vietnam to increase regional minimum salary
Hanoi [Vietnam], December 21: Vietnam will lift regional minimum salary for laborers by 6 percent next year, local media reported...
S. Korea's top court orders Japanese firms to...
Seoul [South Korea], December 21: South Korea's top court on Thursday ordered Japanese firms to compensate the victims who were...
UNICEF chief raises alarm about drinking water crisis...
United Nations, December 21: The head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday issued a dire warning that the...
Hurricane Otis kills 52 in Mexico
Mexico City [Mexico], December 21: Hurricane Otis has killed 52 and left 32 missing in Mexico, Governor of Guerrero state,...
EU migrant pact hailed by Italian gov't, slammed...
Rome [Italy], December 21: The European Union's (EU) New Pact on Migration and Asylum has been welcomed by government officials...
Polish gov't dismisses public media chiefs
Warsaw [Poland], December 21: Poland's Culture Minister sacked the heads of three state media outlets on Wednesday, leading to protests...
Cambodia records 11,506 new business establishments in first...
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], December 21: Cambodia issued operating licenses to 11,506 new companies and enterprises in the first 11 months...
Australia rebuffs U.S. request for warship in Red...
Canberra [Australia], December 21: The Australian government has announced that it will not send a warship to the Red Sea...
Behind the 'revolution' led by Myanmar's ethnic minority...
Namhsan [Myanmar], December 21: Pickup trucks carrying ethnic minority fighters rolled into a town in Myanmar's northeastern Shan state...
Survivors of China's deadliest quake brave freezing cold
Jishishan [China], December 21: Survivors of China's deadliest earthquake in years huddled in makeshift aid tents despite freezing temperatures on...
Egypt seeks to broker Gaza ceasefire as Hamas
Cairo [Egypt], December 21: The U.S. said "very serious" negotiations were taking place on a new Gaza ceasefire and release...
Polish government takes public TV news channel off...
Warsaw [Poland], December 21: Poland's new government took a public news channel off the air on Wednesday and dismissed executives...
Macron defends new French migration law despite political...
Paris [France], December 21: French President Emmanuel Macron defended a bill to toughen immigration laws despite an embarrassing parliamentary vote...
Trump urges US Supreme Court not to expedite...
Washington [US], December 21: Former President Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request by federal prosecutors...
Anti-war candidate Duntsova applies to run in election...
Moscow [Russia], December 21: Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova put her name forward on Wednesday to stand in a Russian...
Biden attacks Trump's anti-immigrant 'blood' comments in Wisconsin...
Washington [US], December 21: U.S. President Joe Biden criticized presidential opponent Donald Trump's recent anti-immigrant comments as he visited a...
Ukrainians prepare for first wartime Christmas on new...
Kyiv [Ukraine], December 21: Ukrainians are gearing up to celebrate their first Christmas according to a new calendar, another step...
Kazakhstan starts building new railroad to China
Astana [Kazakhstan], December 21: Abai region of Kazakhstan started building a new 272 km-long railway line en route Bakhty-Ayagoz, a...
German court orders repeat of 2021 election in...
Berlin [Germany], December 20: Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that the 2021 national election must be repeated in...
NASA to launch new mission to help build...
Los Angeles [US], December 20: NASA is preparing to launch a new mission that will stare at the space between...
Mexican president to challenge U.S. new anti-immigrant law
Mexico City [Mexico], December 20: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday that his government plans to challenge...
Italy to request 5th installment of EU recovery...
Rome [Italy], December 20: Italy said on Tuesday it is on course to formally request the fifth installment of the...
Australian government defends weather agency from criticism amid...
Canberra [Australia], December 20: Australia's Emergency Management Minister has defended the weather service agency from criticism over its warning system...
UN official warns attacks likely to rise in...
Geneva [Switzerland], December 20: A senior United Nations (UN) official on Tuesday warned that the holiday period would likely bring...
Zelensky: "No one knows" when Russia-Ukraine conflict ends
Kyiv [Ukraine], December 20: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at his annual press conference on Tuesday that "no one...