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Taliban seeks sanctions relief and aid for farmers at UN Afghan meeting

Taliban seeks sanctions relief and aid for farmers...

Islamabad [Pakistan], July 2: The Taliban delegation outlined its priorities on Monday at a two-day UN conference on Afghanistan. The...

Opinion poll round-up with three days to go until UK general election

Opinion poll round-up with three days to go...

London [UK], July 2: Four opinion polls for Thursday's UK general election have been published in the last 24 hours,...

Poland's Tusk issues warning after far-right gains in France

Poland's Tusk issues warning after far-right gains in...

Warsaw [Poland], July 2: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk issued a warning on Monday following far-right gains in the first...

Biden's family urges him to stay in White House race

Biden's family urges him to stay in White...

Washington [US], July 2: Democratic President Joe Biden's family has urged him to ignore calls to step aside following his...

Emergency declared in Russia's Sakha

Emergency declared in Russia's Sakha

Moscow [Russia], July 2: The authorities in the Sakha (Yakutia) region in Russia's Far East have declared an emergency...

S Koreans surge to sign online petition to impeach president

S Koreans surge to sign online petition to...

Seoul [South Korea], July 2: An online petition calling for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to be impeached experienced...

UK govt, BA sued over 1990 Kuwait hostage crisis

UK govt, BA sued over 1990 Kuwait hostage...

London [UK], July 2: Passengers and crew of a British Airways flight who were taken hostage in Kuwait in 1990...

Rockets fired into Israel, tanks advance in Gaza

Rockets fired into Israel, tanks advance in Gaza

Gaza [Palestine], July 2: The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad fired a barrage of rockets into Israel on Monday as...

Rival French parties seek to build anti-far right front

Rival French parties seek to build anti-far right...

Paris [France], July 2: Opponents of France's far-right sought to build a united front to block the path to government...

Google to require disclosures for altered election ads

Google to require disclosures for altered election ads

California [US], July 2: Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab said on Monday it would make it mandatory for advertisers to...

Hurricane Beryl 'extremely dangerous' as it gains strength in Caribbean

Hurricane Beryl 'extremely dangerous' as it gains strength...

Washington [US], July 2: Hurricane Beryl unleashed powerful winds over the Eastern Caribbean on Monday, downing power lines and ripping...

AlQurm Protected Area in Khor Kalba joins IOSEA Marine Turtle MoU

AlQurm Protected Area in Khor Kalba joins IOSEA...

Sharjah [UAE], July 2: The Environment and Protected Areas Authority in Sharjah (EPAA) announced that the AlQurm Protected Area in...

Abdullah bin Zayed receives Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali

Abdullah bin Zayed receives Minister of Foreign Affairs...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], July 2: H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, received Abdoulaye Diop, Minister...

UAE President congratulates Mauritanian President on election win in phone call

UAE President congratulates Mauritanian President on election win...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], July 2: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today held a phone call with...

5 killed, 60 injured in natural gas explosion in Türkiye's Izmir

5 killed, 60 injured in natural gas explosion...

Istanbul [Turkey], July 1: A natural gas explosion in Türkiye's western province of Izmir on Sunday killed five people and...

Chinese government unveils stricter rules around rare earths

Chinese government unveils stricter rules around rare earths

Berlin [Germany], July 1: China's government has issued stricter regulations on rare earths, adding punishments for illegal mining, processing, imports...

Reformist Iranian presidential candidate opposes online censorship

Reformist Iranian presidential candidate opposes online censorship

Tehran [Iran], July 1: Reformist Iranian presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has positioned himself against internet censorship in the country days...

Hungary's Orban announces new far-right European party alliance

Hungary's Orban announces new far-right European party alliance

Vienna [Austria], July 1: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced in Vienna on Sunday an alliance with populist parties from...

7 die in Russian missile attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya region

7 die in Russian missile attack on Ukraine's...

Kiev [Ukraine], July 1: At least seven people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the city of Vilniansk...

Taliban govt reps meet UN officials, envoys in Doha

Taliban govt reps meet UN officials, envoys in...

Doha [Qatar], July 1: Representatives of Afghanistan's Taleban government began meetings on Sunday with UN officials as they attended talks...

Canada faces scourge of rising car thefts

Canada faces scourge of rising car thefts

Montreal [Canada], July 1: Montreal-area resident Zachary Siciliani discovered recently that his car had simply disappeared - likely in one...

Israeli tanks enter North and South Gaza

Israeli tanks enter North and South Gaza

Tel Aviv [Israel], July 1: Israeli forces advanced further on Sunday into the Shejaia neighbourhood of northern Gaza and also...

Greek firefighters battle wildfires amid strong winds

Greek firefighters battle wildfires amid strong winds

Athens [Greece], July 1: Greek firefighters were battling two wildfires near Athens on Sunday amid strong winds, just hours after...

Trump targets anti-immigration drive on murdered Women, Girls

Trump targets anti-immigration drive on murdered Women, Girls

Washington [US], July 1: Minutes before going on stage for the first presidential debate on Thursday, Donald Trump received a...

Euro rises after France far-right win first round vote

Euro rises after France far-right win first round...

Paris [France], July 1: The euro touched a 10-day high on Sunday, after the first round of France's shock snap...

French election: Voting begins in watershed snap poll

French election: Voting begins in watershed snap poll

Paris [France], July 1: French President Emmanuel Macron, whose decision to call Sunday's snap election has caused much political consternation...

UAE private sector: 'An engine of change' critical to SDGs

UAE private sector: 'An engine of change' critical...

Dubai [UAE], July 1: The private sector "is an engine of change and sustainable development" and has a critical...