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Austria sees economic contraction in Q2
Vienna [Austria], September 2:Austria's gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 1.1 percent in real terms year on year in the...

U.S. anti-drug trafficking strategy "very misguided," says Mexican...
Mexico City [Mexico], September 2: The United States has adopted a "very misguided" strategy to fight drug trafficking at home...

Growing drought, wildfires impact Canada's Q2 economy
Ottawa [Canada], September 2: Canada's real gross domestic product (GDP) by industry was essentially unchanged in the second quarter of...

Gold rises on cooling U.S. job data
Chicago [US], September 2: Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose on Friday as...

6.1-magnitude quake hits 13 km ENE of Severo-Kurilsk,...
Moscow [Russia], September 2: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted 13 km ENE of Severo-Kurilsk, Russia at 20:49:54...

5 killed as elevator crashes in Indonesia's Bali
Jakarta [Indonesia], September 2: At least five people were killed after an elevator at a resort hotel crashed on the...

100 years on, victims of 1923 earthquake massacre...
Tokyo [Japan], September 2: A ceremony has been held in Tokyo to commemorate the victims of a massacre in which...

Myanmar exports over 59,000 tons of rice, broken...
Yangon [Myanmar], September 2: Myanmar exported 59,971 tons of rice and broken rice in August, according to data released by...

1 killed, 2 injured in armed attack in...
Yangon [Myanmar], September 2: One villager was killed and two others injured in an ethnic armed group attack in eastern...

Iran's draft hijab law may amount to 'gender...
Geneva [Switzerland], September 2: A draft law in Iran ordering new penalties for women not wearing a headscarf in public...

US to continue deporting Haitians
Washington [US], September 2: The United States will continue deporting Haitian migrants back to their country.

Abortion rights center stage in Democrats' 2024 US...
Washington [US], September 2: Abortion rights helped Democrats stave off a hefty defeat at midterm elections last year and the...

Dubai Holding's iconic 19.28-metre Hatta Sign breaks Guinness...
Dubai [UAE], September 2: Dubai Holding's iconic Hatta Sign has garnered international acclaim by breaking the Guinness World Records title...

UAE President receives Deputy Prime Minister and Minister...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 2: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan received Sheikh Ahmad Fahad Al-Ahmad...

Abdullah bin Zayed congratulates Tuggar on his appointment...
Abu Dhabi [UAE],September 2: H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, congratulated Yusuf Tuggar on his...

Warmer, drier spring forecast with higher bushfire risks...
Canberra [Australia], September 1: Most of Australia is likely to brace for a drier and warmer spring, which may raise...

5 injured in hospital bomb blast in Myanmar's...
Yangon [Myanmar], September 1: Five people were injured on Thursday in a hospital bomb blast in Myanmar's second largest city...

EU FMs stress diplomacy amid Niger coup fallout
Washington [US], September 1: EU foreign ministers in the Spanish city of Toledo stressed the value of democracy on Thursday...

Fire guts house-turned-factory in Philippines, killing 16
Manila [Philippines], September 1: Sixteen people were killed in a fire that swept through a two-storey house converted into a...

Indonesia's tropical glacier melting rapidly
Jakarta [Indonesia], September 1:The Puncak Jaya glacier in Indonesia's Papua Province, one of the world's few tropical glaciers, could disappear...

Protests against Dutch nominee as EU climate commissioner
The Hague [Netherlands], September 1: The nomination of Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra as the new European Union commissioner for...

Climate crisis one step ahead of us: Greek...
Athens [Greece], September 1: The enormous scope of the wildfires that have struck Greece this summer can be attributed primarily...

'Shut up': Ukraine's Kuleba lashes out at counteroffensive...
Kyiv [Ukraine], September 1: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Thursday slammed the critics of his country's counteroffensive strategy and...

Trump pleads not guilty in Georgia election interference...
Washington [US], September 1: Former US President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday in the sprawling Georgia election interference...

Storm Idalia strikes Georgia, Carolinas after slamming Florida
Tbilisi [Georgia], September 1: Florida began assessing the damage Wednesday from Idalia's flooding after the powerful storm inundated coastal communities...
UK names Grant Shapps as new defense secretary
London [UK], September 1: Grant Shapps was on Thursday appointed UK defense secretary, succeeding Ben Wallace who formally stepped down...

New York says Trump should be found liable...
New York [US], September 1: New York's attorney general on Wednesday asked a state judge to declare, even before the...