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Torrential rain follows summer wildfires in Greece, one dead

Torrential rain follows summer wildfires in Greece, one...

Athens [Greece], September 6: Torrential rains have flooded homes and roads in Greece and a man died after a wall...

US says North Korea will 'pay a price' for any weapons supplies to Russia

US says North Korea will 'pay a price'...

Washington [US], September 6: Arms negotiations between Russia and North Korea are actively advancing, a U.S. official said on Tuesday...

Tropical Storm Lee to intensify into extremely dangerous hurricane -US hurricane center

Tropical Storm Lee to intensify into extremely dangerous...

Washington [US], September 6: Tropical Storm Lee was forming east of the Lesser Antilles and was expected to rapidly intensify...

Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio gets 22 years in Jan 6 case

Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio gets 22 years...

Washington [US], September 6: A former leader of the right-wing Proud Boys group, Enrique Tarrio, was sentenced to 22 years...

Emirates, United expand codeshare partnership

Emirates, United expand codeshare partnership

Dubai [UAE], September 6: Emirates announced a significant expansion in its codeshare partnership with "United", to include nine destinations in...

UAE President receives Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum; Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi

UAE President receives Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum;...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 6: His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today met with His Highness Sheikh Mohammed...

Shakhboot bin Nahyan meets Chairman of Military Council in Guinea

Shakhboot bin Nahyan meets Chairman of Military Council...

Conakry [Guinea], September 6:Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan Al Nahyan, Minister of State, met with the President of the Military Council...

World Tourism Organsiation, G20 launch dashboard to support tourism in advancing SDGs

World Tourism Organsiation, G20 launch dashboard to support...

New Delhi [India], September 6: Ahead of the G20 Leaders' Summit next 9-10 September, the United Nations World Tourism...

Australian politicians urge U.S. to end Assange extradition attempt

Australian politicians urge U.S. to end Assange extradition...

Canberra [Australia], September 5: A delegation of Australian Members of Parliament will travel to the United States in a bid...

Indonesia's security chief warns of rising challenges

Indonesia's security chief warns of rising challenges

Jakarta [Indonesia], September 5: Indonesia's top security minister warned of the growing challenges to the stability of the region on...

Ukraine's defence minister OleksiiReznikov dismissed

Ukraine's defence minister OleksiiReznikov dismissed

Kyiv [Ukraine], September 5: Ukraine's Defence Minister OleksiiReznikov has been dismissed from his post, the country's leader VolodymyrZelensky has announced.

Biden disappointed Xi will not attend G20 summit

Biden disappointed Xi will not attend G20 summit

Washington [US], September 5: United States President Joe Biden says he is "disappointed" that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jin ping...

Kim to meet Putin as Russia seeks closer military ties with North Korea

Kim to meet Putin as Russia seeks closer...

Pyongyang [North Korea], September 5: Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin...

Ukraine says it retakes more ground as Zelenskiy visits front lines

Ukraine says it retakes more ground as Zelenskiy...

Kyiv [Ukraine], September 5: Ukraine said on Monday its troops had regained more territory on the eastern front and were...

Saudi Arabia announces establishment of Global Water Organisation

Saudi Arabia announces establishment of Global Water Organisation

Jeddah [Saudi Arabia], September 5: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has announced the establishment of a Global Water...

Return of Sultan AlNeyadi...an exceptional space achievement: Abdullah bin Zayed

Return of Sultan AlNeyadi...an exceptional space achievement: Abdullah...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 5: H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the...

Cambodian PM heads to Indonesia for ASEAN Summit

Cambodian PM heads to Indonesia for ASEAN Summit

Phnom Penh [Cambodia], September 4: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet left here on Monday for the 43rd summit of the...

Explosion at gas station rocks Yemen's capital

Explosion at gas station rocks Yemen's capital

Sanaa [Yemen], September 4: A massive explosion rocked a gas station in the Houthi-controlled Yemen's capital of Sanaa on Sunday...

Zelensky to replace defense minister

Zelensky to replace defense minister

Kyiv [Ukraine], September 4: Ukrainian President VolodymyrZelensky on Sunday announced the decision to replace Defense Minister OleksiiReznikov.

Kuwait appoints new ministers of finance, education

Kuwait appoints new ministers of finance, education

Kuwait City [Kuwait], September 4: Kuwait's Crown Prince issued Sunday a decree appointing Adel Al-Mane as minister of education and...

Russia recruits migrants and soldiers in neighbouring countries: British intelligence

Russia recruits migrants and soldiers in neighbouring countries:...

London [UK], September 4: Russia is recruiting migrants from Central Asia and neighbouring countries to be soldiers for its war...

Netanyahu demands deportation of African migrants after riots

Netanyahu demands deportation of African migrants after riots

Tel Aviv [Israel], September 4: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the deportation of African migrants in Israel, following...

Calm returns to Iraqi city of Kirkuk after deadly ethnic unrest

Calm returns to Iraqi city of Kirkuk after...

Baghdad [Iraq], September 4: Calm returned to the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Sunday, a day after...

800 cops in Haiti have left force in what UN calls 'staggering loss'

800 cops in Haiti have left force in...

Miami [US], September 4: Haiti's struggling police force has lost nearly 800 officers in the first six months of this...

US retailers alarmed at rising theft

US retailers alarmed at rising theft

New York [US], September 4: Toothpaste, chocolate, washing powder and deodorant - everyday products are increasingly under lock and key...

Madrid residents told to stay at home as torrential rain sweeps across Spain

Madrid residents told to stay at home as...

Madrid [Spain], September 4: Madrid's mayor on Sunday advised all residents to stay at home as the capital braced itself...

Eighty years on, Italian victims of Nazi crimes finally to get compensation

Eighty years on, Italian victims of Nazi crimes...

Rome [Italy], September 4: In October 1943, after the Nazis began a brutal occupation of their former ally, German troops...