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No functional hospital left in northern Gaza, WHO...
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 22: Northern Gaza has been left without a functional hospital due to a lack of fuel,...
UN calls for probe as Israeli army 'summarily...
London [UK], December 22: The United Nations human rights office has called for an independent inquiry into allegations that Israeli...
Tehran warned of 'danger' in allowing Houthis to...
London [UK], December 22: Iran has been warned about the danger of allowing Tehran-backed Houthis to target shipping in the...
US plans to send astronaut to moon this...
Washington [US], December 22: The United States has announced that alongside American astronauts, it plans to land an international astronaut...
Venezuela releases 10 US hostages in exchange for...
Washington [US], December 22: Venezuela has agreed to release 10 US hostages and extradite a fugitive billionaire in exchange for...
Australia must make remand 'exception' and ban use...
Sydney [Australia], December 22: The United Nations Committee against Torture has slammed Australia for the "extraordinary number" of people on...
Argentina's ultra-liberal President Milei issues hard reform decree
Buenos Aires [Argentina], December 22: The new Argentinian government of ultra-liberal President Javier Milei has begun to restructure the South...
Gunman kills 15, wounds 24 at Prague university
Prague [Czech Republic], December 22: A gunman opened fire at a university in the centre of Prague on Thursday afternoon,...
German authorities shut down illegal darknet marketplace
Berlin [Germany], December 21: German authorities have shut down the server infrastructure of the illegal darknet marketplace "Kingdom Market," the...
Vietnam to increase regional minimum salary
Hanoi [Vietnam], December 21: Vietnam will lift regional minimum salary for laborers by 6 percent next year, local media reported...
S. Korea's top court orders Japanese firms to...
Seoul [South Korea], December 21: South Korea's top court on Thursday ordered Japanese firms to compensate the victims who were...
UNICEF chief raises alarm about drinking water crisis...
United Nations, December 21: The head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday issued a dire warning that the...
Hurricane Otis kills 52 in Mexico
Mexico City [Mexico], December 21: Hurricane Otis has killed 52 and left 32 missing in Mexico, Governor of Guerrero state,...
EU migrant pact hailed by Italian gov't, slammed...
Rome [Italy], December 21: The European Union's (EU) New Pact on Migration and Asylum has been welcomed by government officials...
Polish gov't dismisses public media chiefs
Warsaw [Poland], December 21: Poland's Culture Minister sacked the heads of three state media outlets on Wednesday, leading to protests...
Australia rebuffs U.S. request for warship in Red...
Canberra [Australia], December 21: The Australian government has announced that it will not send a warship to the Red Sea...
Behind the 'revolution' led by Myanmar's ethnic minority...
Namhsan [Myanmar], December 21: Pickup trucks carrying ethnic minority fighters rolled into a town in Myanmar's northeastern Shan state...
Survivors of China's deadliest quake brave freezing cold
Jishishan [China], December 21: Survivors of China's deadliest earthquake in years huddled in makeshift aid tents despite freezing temperatures on...
Egypt seeks to broker Gaza ceasefire as Hamas
Cairo [Egypt], December 21: The U.S. said "very serious" negotiations were taking place on a new Gaza ceasefire and release...
Polish government takes public TV news channel off...
Warsaw [Poland], December 21: Poland's new government took a public news channel off the air on Wednesday and dismissed executives...
Macron defends new French migration law despite political...
Paris [France], December 21: French President Emmanuel Macron defended a bill to toughen immigration laws despite an embarrassing parliamentary vote...
Trump urges US Supreme Court not to expedite...
Washington [US], December 21: Former President Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request by federal prosecutors...
Anti-war candidate Duntsova applies to run in election...
Moscow [Russia], December 21: Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova put her name forward on Wednesday to stand in a Russian...
Biden attacks Trump's anti-immigrant 'blood' comments in Wisconsin...
Washington [US], December 21: U.S. President Joe Biden criticized presidential opponent Donald Trump's recent anti-immigrant comments as he visited a...
Ukrainians prepare for first wartime Christmas on new...
Kyiv [Ukraine], December 21: Ukrainians are gearing up to celebrate their first Christmas according to a new calendar, another step...
Kazakhstan starts building new railroad to China
Astana [Kazakhstan], December 21: Abai region of Kazakhstan started building a new 272 km-long railway line en route Bakhty-Ayagoz, a...
German court orders repeat of 2021 election in...
Berlin [Germany], December 20: Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that the 2021 national election must be repeated in...