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India, China, Brazil could act as mediators in Russia-Ukraine peace talks, says Vladimir Putin

India, China, Brazil could act as mediators in...

Moscow [Russia], September 6: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that India, China and Brazil could mediate in potential...

Ugandan Olympian Cheptegei dies after being set on fire

Ugandan Olympian Cheptegei dies after being set on...

Kampala [Uganda], September 6: Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei died after being set on fire by her boyfriend in Kenya,...

Boko Haram attack on village leaves 81 dead in Nigeria

Boko Haram attack on village leaves 81 dead...

Yobe [Nigeria], September 6: Suspected fighters from Boko Haram attacked a village in northeastern Nigeria and left multiple people...

Congo expects first delivery of mpox vaccine doses

Congo expects first delivery of mpox vaccine doses

Geneva [Switzerland], September 5: The democratic Republic of Congo, epicenter of a mpox outbreak that prompted a U.N. declaration of...

Irish inquiry finds 'truly shocking' level of sexual abuse at church-run schools

Irish inquiry finds 'truly shocking' level of sexual...

London [UK], September 5: An Irish state inquiry uncovered a "truly shocking" level of sexual abuse at religious schools, primarily...

Netanyahu rival Gantz criticizes stance on Philadelphi

Netanyahu rival Gantz criticizes stance on Philadelphi

Jerusalem [Israel], September 5: Israel does not need to keep troops in the southern Gazan border area for security reasons...

UN welcomes progress in Gaza polio campaign, calls for permanent ceasefire

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

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

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 Ukraine trip

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 UN

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 million in Philippines

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 government

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 bid

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 Gaza conflict

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 'decades of failure'

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 protests

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

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 in eastern China

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 Sudan

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 320 lives in Pakistan

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 mass stabbing

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

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 Bank

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 protests

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 with Ukraine

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

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...