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Canada to contribute 3.6 bln USD to new...
Ottawa [Canada], June 10: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday announced 5 billion Canadian dollars (3.6 billion U.S. dollars)...
World Bank says Sri Lankan economy to expand...
Colombo [Sri Lanka], June 14: Sri Lankan economy is expected to expand by 2.2 percent in 2024 and reach 3...
Philippines confirms Filipino crew aboard ship attacked in...
Manila [Philippines], June 14: The Philippines on Friday said Filipino sailors were among the crew on board a commercial ship...
Greece: Heat forces Acropolis closure for 2nd straight...
Athens [Greece], June 14: Greek authorities closed down the Acropolis in Athens on Thursday afternoon for a second day running...
Record 120 million people displaced globally: UN report
New York [US], June 14: The UN said on Thursday that a record-breaking 120 million people were living in a...
UAQ Ruler pardons number of inmates ahead of...
Umm Al Quwain [UAE], June 14: H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Rashid Al Mu'alla, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Umm...
Bank of Japan decides to reduce government bond...
Tokyo [Japan], June 14: The Bank of Japan (BOJ) on Friday decided to reduce its government bond buying, in...
UAE participates in 20th CGIAR System Council meeting...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], June 14: Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, Head of International Affairs Office at the Presidential Court, led the...
International film festival opens in Shanghai
Shanghai [China], June 14: The 26th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) kicked off on Friday in the east Chinese metropolis,...
Iranian, Venezuelan FMs vow to promote ties, cooperation...
Tehran [Iran], June 13: Iran's Caretaker Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani and Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yvan Gil Pinto highlighted the...
U.S.-British coalition launches 3 airstrikes on Yemen's Red...
Sanaa [Yemen], June 13: Warplanes of the United States and British naval coalition launched three airstrikes on Yemen's Red...
Cloud seeding claims overshadow record floods worldwide
Washington [US], June 13: Climate skeptics are scapegoating a weather modification technique known as cloud seeding to deny the role...
New Caledonia vote reform that sparked riots 'suspended'
Paris [France], June 13: President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that a voting reform that triggered deadly riots in French Pacific...
New Korean flare-up carries greater air of menace
Seoul [South Korea], June 13: Border tensions are a fact of life on the Korean Peninsula, but analysts warn that...
Denmark recalls Korean instant noodles for being too...
Copenhagen [Denmark], June 13: Denmark's food agency has recalled three brands of South Korean instant ramen, warning that they were...
UAE, Uzbek ministers of justice discuss enhancing cooperation
Abu Dhabi [UAE], June 13: Minister of Justice Abdullah bin Sultan bin Awad Al Nuaimi, and Akbar Tashkulov, Minister...
UN Independent International Commission finds Israel, Palestinian armed...
New York [US], June 13: Palestinian armed groups and Israeli authorities have both committed war crimes and crimes against humanity...
Massive fire breaks out at oil refinery in...
Baghdad [Iraq], June 13: A massive fire broke out at the asphalt storage facility of an oil refinery in Erbil...
Musk expects more from shareholders than himself
Washington [US], June 13: A deal is a deal - sometimes, it seems. Discord is growing among electric-car maker Tesla's...
Gaza ceasefire in limbo as Hamas seeks changes,...
Gaza border [Israel], June 13: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that Hamas had proposed numerous changes,...
Russian missile attack kills 8, injures 21
Moscow [Russia], June 13: A Russian ballistic missile strike on Ukraine's southern city of Kryvyi Rih killed at least eight...
Fire in Kuwait building kills 49 foreign workers
Mangaf [Kuwait], June 13: At least 49 people were killed in Kuwait after a fire broke out in a building...
Wildfires prompt Cyprus President to cut short Jordan...
Nicosia [Cyprus], June 12: Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides cut short his visit to Jordan on Tuesday, where he was attending...
Putin revamps government body supervising Russia's defense industry
Moscow [Russia], June 12: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a presidential decree on Tuesday to update the composition of...
NATO will defend every ally: Stoltenberg
Riga [Latvia], June 12: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has again promised the states on NATO's eastern flank the alliance's...
49 dead, 140 missing as boat capsizes off...
Cairo [Egypt], June 12: Dozens of people have died after a migrant boat carrying around 260 people capsized off the...
Ukraine seeks air defence boost to protect energy...
Berlin [Germany], June 12: President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on allies to increase their air defence support to Ukraine to...