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Israel unleashes heavy strikes on Lebanon as US, UK urge restraint

Israel unleashes heavy strikes on Lebanon as US,...

Tel Aviv [Israel], September 20: Israeli warplanes carried out late on Thursday their most intense strikes on southern Lebanon in...

Russia attacks Ukraine geriatric centre and power grid

Russia attacks Ukraine geriatric centre and power grid

Moscow [Russia], September 20: Russian forces hit a geriatric centre in the Ukrainian city of Sumy and targeted its energy...

Harris and Trump neck-and-neck in national polls

Harris and Trump neck-and-neck in national polls

Washington [US], September 20: Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain deadlocked less than seven weeks before...

Biden expects Fed to continue cutting interest rates

Biden expects Fed to continue cutting interest rates

Washington [US], September 20: U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday he expects the Federal Reserve to continue cutting interest...

Ukraine weakens Russian forces in East: Zelenskiy

Ukraine weakens Russian forces in East: Zelenskiy

Kyiv [Ukraine], September 20: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukrainian forces had reduced the potential of Russian troops...

Firefighters quell most of Portugal's worst wildfires, fight still on

Firefighters quell most of Portugal's worst wildfires, fight...

Lisbon [Portugal], September 20: Firefighters tackling deadly wildfires in central and northern Portugal had doused the flames in the Aveiro...

France nears new government as Barnier proposes cabinet to Macron

France nears new government as Barnier proposes cabinet...

Paris [France], September 20: France edged closer to having a new government, more than two months after a hung election.

Hunter Biden to be sentenced on Dec. 4

Hunter Biden to be sentenced on Dec. 4

Washington [US], September 20: Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. President Joe Biden, will be sentenced on Dec. 4.

Portugal to combat school bullying

Portugal to combat school bullying

Lisbon [Portugal], September 19: The Portuguese government has formed a working group to address and prevent bullying in schools,...

Putin extends Western food import ban by 2 years

Putin extends Western food import ban by 2...

Moscow [Russia], September 19: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree extending an embargo on agricultural products from...

Russian town evacuated after Ukrainian attack on munitions depot

Russian town evacuated after Ukrainian attack on munitions...

Moscow [Russia], September 19: The small Russian town of Toropets, some 400 kilometres north-west of Moscow, has been partially...

Seventh foreigner arrested in Venezuela for alleged plot to kill President Maduro

Seventh foreigner arrested in Venezuela for alleged plot...

Havana [Cuba], September 19: A seventh foreign national has been arrested in Venezuela on charges of conspiracy over what Caracas...

UN General Assembly calls for Israeli withdrawal from occupied areas

UN General Assembly calls for Israeli withdrawal from...

New York [US], September 19: With a clear majority of 124 votes on Wednesday, the UN General Assembly has called...

Half a million Mpox vaccine doses for Africa ordered by Gavi Alliance

Half a million Mpox vaccine doses for Africa...

Geneva [Switzerland], September 19: The global vaccine group Gavi has ordered 500,000 Mpox vaccine doses from the German-Danish company Bavarian...

At least 14 dead, 450 injured as Lebanon hit by 2nd wave of blasts

At least 14 dead, 450 injured as Lebanon...

Beirut [Lebanon], September 19: At least 14 people were killed and 450 others injured in the second wave of explosions...

UAE President to begin official visit to US on Monday

UAE President to begin official visit to US...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 19: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan will start an official visit...

Egypt stresses urgency of ending war, ensuring aid delivery in Gaza

Egypt stresses urgency of ending war, ensuring aid...

Cairo [Egypt], September 19: The Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Badr Abdelatty, has stressed the urgent need for an...

UN appeals for maximum restraint to avert further escalation in region

UN appeals for maximum restraint to avert further...

New York [US], September 19: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an end to the escalation in violence...

Chinese electric cars in the midst of a tense battle

Chinese electric cars in the midst of a...

Beijing [China], September 19: China's electric vehicles (EVs) are looking to increase their competitiveness in the global market amid tariffs...

Vietnam's gas demand expected to triple by 2030

Vietnam's gas demand expected to triple by 2030

Hanoi [Vietnam], September 19: According to a recent study by Wood Mackenzie - a global provider of data, analysis and...

US interest rate cut: Ms. Harris optimistic, Mr. Trump says 'political trick'

US interest rate cut: Ms. Harris optimistic, Mr....

Washington [US], September 19: The US Federal Reserve (Fed) cut interest rates for the first time in more than four...

Family 'devastated' as accused killer pleads not guilty

Family 'devastated' as accused killer pleads not guilty

Washington [US], September 19: The supporters of a young woman allegedly killed by her former partner say they are "devastated"...

Hezbollah devices explode again in Lebanon, raising fears of wider Israel conflict

Hezbollah devices explode again in Lebanon, raising fears...

Beirut [Lebanon], September 19: Hand-held radios used by armed group Hezbollah detonated across Lebanon's south in the country's deadliest day...

'Miserable' GDP result as New Zealand shrinks again

'Miserable' GDP result as New Zealand shrinks again

Wellington [New Zealand], September 19: New Zealand's economy has again gone backwards, with new GDP data confirming the depths of...

Iran sent stolen Trump info to Biden campaign, FBI says

Iran sent stolen Trump info to Biden campaign,...

Washington [US], September 19: Iranian hackers sought to interest US President Joe Biden's campaign in information stolen from rival Donald...

Shots fired outside Norway school, suspects apprehended

Shots fired outside Norway school, suspects apprehended

Oslo [Norway], September 19: Several shots were fired outside a school in Oslo and three suspects have since been...

Beset by wildfires, Portugal gets help from Spain, Morocco

Beset by wildfires, Portugal gets help from Spain,...

Lisbon [Portugal], September 19: A wave of deadly wildfires in Portugal has pushed emergency services to the limit and much-needed...