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UK to 'treat people smugglers like terrorists' in new edict, says PM Starmer

UK to 'treat people smugglers like terrorists' in...

Glasgow [Scotland], November 5: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the government will "treat people smugglers like terrorists" as he...

Moldovan President Sandu calls for 'solidarity' after re-election victory

Moldovan President Sandu calls for 'solidarity' after re-election...

Chisinau [Moldova], November 5: Pro-western Moldovan President Maia Sandu is expected to continue leading her country on its reform path...

Israel notifies UN of ending ties with UNRWA amid warning of famine in Gaza

Israel notifies UN of ending ties with UNRWA...

Tel Aviv [Israel], November 5: Israel has officially notified the United Nations of its decision to cut ties with its...

German development minister visits Lebanon, repeats ceasefire call

German development minister visits Lebanon, repeats ceasefire call

Beirut [Lebanon], November 5: German Development Minister Svenja Schulze arrived in Lebanon on Monday in an expression of support for...

Zelensky welcomes increased weapons deliveries

Zelensky welcomes increased weapons deliveries

Kiev [Ukraine], November 5: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky highlighted increased arms deliveries from Western allies at a meeting with leading...

Russian president receives North Korean foreign minister in the Kremlin

Russian president receives North Korean foreign minister in...

Moscow [Russia], November 5: Russian President Vladimir Putin met North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui in the Kremlin for...

Robert F Kennedy Jr urges supporters not to vote for him but Trump

Robert F Kennedy Jr urges supporters not to...

Washington [US], November 5: Former US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has used the eve of the election to...

Spain dreads more deaths as rain pounds Catalonia

Spain dreads more deaths as rain pounds Catalonia

Valencia [Spain], November 5: Rescuers plunged into inundated garages on Monday to find victims of Spain's deadliest floods in a...

France mass rape trial resumes as more take stand

France mass rape trial resumes as more take...

Avignon [France], November 5: The trial of a Frenchman who recruited dozens of strangers to rape his drugged wife at...

Harris, Trump make a furious last-day election push

Harris, Trump make a furious last-day election push

Washington [US], November 5: A US presidential campaign that has careened through a felony trial, an incumbent president being pushed...

Despite sharp decline, inflation remains a sore point for Harris

Despite sharp decline, inflation remains a sore point...

Washington [US], November 5: For six months or so in 2021, as vaccines paved an economic reopening from the COVID-19...

Georgia top court won't extend ballot deadline in win for Trump

Georgia top court won't extend ballot deadline in...

Georgia [US], November 5: The top court in the battleground state of Georgia ruled that Cobb County cannot extend the...

Canada judge who headed residential school abuse investigation dies

Canada judge who headed residential school abuse investigation...

Ottawa [Canada], November 5: The judge and senator who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Canadian residential schools' abuse...

Big 5 Global to launch November 26 in Dubai

Big 5 Global to launch November 26 in...

Dubai [UAE], November 5: Big 5 Global, along with co-located events LiveableCitiesX, GeoWorld and Future FM, will host from 26...

UAE chairs 10th meeting of Committee for Development of Arab Tourism Strategy

UAE chairs 10th meeting of Committee for Development...

Cairo [Egypt], November 5: The UAE chaired the 10th meeting of the Committee for the Development of the Arab...

Egypt holds Israel responsible for consequences of ending agreement with UNRWA

Egypt holds Israel responsible for consequences of ending...

Cairo [Egypt], November 5: Egypt condemned in the strongest terms Israel's withdrawal from the agreement regulating the operations of the...

US bomber joins air drill with S Korea, Japan

US bomber joins air drill with S Korea,...

Seoul [South Korea], November 4: South Korea, Japan, and the United States on Sunday conducted a joint air drill involving...

Egyptian FM, Blinken discuss ceasefire efforts in Gaza, Lebanon

Egyptian FM, Blinken discuss ceasefire efforts in Gaza,...

Cairo [Egypt], November 4: Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed on Sunday efforts...

Bangladesh vows to strip 'fascism' from constitution

Bangladesh vows to strip 'fascism' from constitution

Dhaka [Bangladesh], November 4: Bangladesh's constitutional reform commission, newly appointed in the wake of the student-led revolution that ousted long-time...

Russia sends in more drones, Zelenskiy urges sanctions

Russia sends in more drones, Zelenskiy urges sanctions

Moscow [Russia], November 4: Moscow has sent 96 drones and a guided air missile into Ukraine, officials say.

Albanese denies his office sought flight upgrades

Albanese denies his office sought flight upgrades

Canberra [Australia], November 4: Anthony Albanese has denied his staff requested flight upgrades from Qantas on his behalf.

Harris appeals to Christians and Arab Americans

Harris appeals to Christians and Arab Americans

Washington [US], November 4: Kamala Harris has made her closing pitch for the US presidency at a historically Black church...

IMF to begin review Egypt's loan programme on Tuesday

IMF to begin review Egypt's loan programme on...

Cairo [Egypt], November 4: Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced Sunday that the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) fourth review of...

Volcanic eruption burns houses in Indonesia, killing at least 9 people

Volcanic eruption burns houses in Indonesia, killing at...

Maumere [Indonesia], November 4: Indonesia's Disaster Management Agency said Monday that at least nine people have died as a series...

UN Secretary-General expresses concern over reports of North Korean troops in Russia

UN Secretary-General expresses concern over reports of North...

New York [US], November 4: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said he is "very concerned" about reports of...

Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed discusses areas of cooperation with Vice Chair of Microsoft

Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed discusses areas of...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], November 4: H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and...

New fraud warning as Moldovans vote in run-off presidential election

New fraud warning as Moldovans vote in run-off...

Chisinau [Moldova], November 4: Moldovan President Maia Sandu has warned of vote buying and electoral fraud as voters cast their...