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Bangladesh authorities detain protest leaders
Dhaka [Bangladesh], July 28: Bangladeshi authorities have taken three student leaders, who helped coordinate rallies against government job quotas, from...

Korean War victory anniversary
Pyongyang [North Korea], July 28: A photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean...

French bishops, Russian Church criticize Olympic opening ceremony
Paris [France], July 28: The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris has been criticized by the Catholic Church...

Leader of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel arrested in...
Dallas (Texas) [US], July 28: One of the world's most powerful drug lords, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, leader of Mexico's...

At least 30 dead in Gaza school airstrike,...
Tel Aviv [Israel], July 28: At least 30 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced...

Israel says Hezbollah rocket kills 11 at football...
Tel Aviv [Israel], July 28: A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 11 people...

Trump tells Christians they won't have to vote...
Washington [US], July 28: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Christians on Friday that if they vote for him this...

Fourth UAE aid ship bound for Gaza arrives...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], July 28: The fourth UAE aid ship bound for Gaza arrived on Thursday at the port of...

French rail sabotage causes chaos as Paris Olympics...
Paris [France], July 27: Streets in the centre of Paris have been blocked off, metro stations closed and thousands of...

Finland probes suspected violation of territorial waters by...
Helsinki [Finland], July 27: Finland suspects a Russian vessel to have violated Finnish territorial waters in the Gulf of Finland...

EU takes action against 7 states for violating...
Brussels [Belgium], July 27: The European Council on Friday placed France and six other European Union (EU) member states under...

Severe water shortages threaten central and southern Italy
Rome [Italy], July 27: Central and southern Italy are grappling with a severe water shortage, with agricultural supplies projected to...

Harris narrows gap with Trump in presidential race:...
Washington [US], July 27: U.S. presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is incredibly close, showed a new Wall...

Biden to announce Supreme Court reform plans next...
Washington [US], July 27: U.S. President Joe Biden intends to present a significant proposal aimed at reforming the Supreme...

FBI Director Stirs Controversy Over Trump Shot Suspicion
Washington [US], July 27: FBI Director Christopher Wray has cast doubt on former President Donald Trump's claim that he was...

France investigates 'massive attack' on fast train network
Paris [France], July 27: Paris Mayor Sabotage Anne Hidalgo said Friday that the crippling of France's high-speed TGV rail network...

Blinken to hold talks with Chinese foreign minister...
Vientiane [Laos], July 27: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Laos on Saturday for a regional meeting and...

Trump vows return to site of assassination attempt,...
Washington [US], July 27: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Friday he will return to the Pennsylvania town where...

Opening ceremony lights up Paris in unique style
Paris [France], July 27: The 2024 Olympics opened in Paris in spectacular style with thousands of athletes sailing along the...

'Firenado' rips through California in year's biggest blaze
California [US], July 27: A rare fire tornado has ripped through bushland in northern California, as the state's largest wildfire...

More than 160,000 people join white women for...
Washington [US], July 27: More than 160,000 people joined a Zoom call on Thursday night to build support for Democratic...

UN urges peace, respect for Olympic Truce as...
Paris [France], July 27: As the Summer Olympics and Paralympics got underway in Paris on Friday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres...

Oregon wildfire scorches over 1,500 square kilometres
Oregon [US], July 27: Winds and lightning strikes have sparked and fanned wildfires across the Pacific Northwest this week, including...

WHO to send one million polio vaccines to...
Geneva [Switzerland], July 27: The UN health agency said on Friday that it is sending more than a million polio...

5 killed, 14 injured in industrial park blast...
Zhengzhou [China], July 27:An explosion at a plant on Friday evening in an industrial park of Yongcheng City in central...

For the first time in history, Olympic Games...
Paris [France], July 27: For the first time in the history of the Olympic Summer Games, the Opening Ceremony didn't...

Harris rises in polls as Trump labels her...
Washington D.C. [US], July 26: Vice President Kamala Harris took her presidential campaign blitz to the largest U.S. teachers' union,...