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Somalia flooding kills 100: UN agency
United Nations, December 2: Flooding caused by heavy rains has killed almost 100 people and left some 750,000 people...

Slovak city Kosice declares state of crisis due...
Bratislava [Slovakia], December 2: Kosice, the second largest city in Slovakia, declared a state of crisis on Friday due to...

Ukraine plans to produce 100-km-range air defense systems
Kyiv [Ukraine], December 2: Ukraine has set out plans to produce air defense systems capable of intercepting aerial threats at...

NASA's Webb space telescope reveals rocky planets can...
Los Angeles [US], December 2: An international team of astronomers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to provide the...

Mexican president unveils 20 pct minimum wage hike...
Mexico City [Mexico], December 2: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday announced a 20 percent increase in the...

Terror attack claims 6 lives in west Afghanistan
Herat[Afghanistan], December 2: A terrorist attack claimed six lives in west Afghanistan's Herat province on Friday, the Ministry of Interior...

Illicit opium imports into Australia on rise, authorities...
Canberra [Australia], December 2: Imports of illicit opium into Australia are on the rise, authorities have warned.

Scores reported killed in Gaza as fighting shatters...
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 2: Israel's warplanes pounded Gaza on Friday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas...

Judge rejects Trump immunity claim in federal 2020...
New York [US], December 2: Donald Trump does not have immunity from criminal charges for actions he took as president,...

Indicted Republican lawmaker George Santos expelled from US...
Washington [US], December 2: Indicted Republican George Santos' brief career in the U.S. House of Representatives came to an end...

Israel-Hamas war: Gaza death toll climbs after truce...
Gaza Strip [Palestine], December 2: Health authorities in Hamas-run Gaza said at least 178 people had been killed by late...

Heavy snows hit southern Germany, flights in Munich...
Bavaria [Germany], December 2: Heavy snowfalls hit southern Germany and particularly Bavaria on Friday night, causing major disruptions at Munich...

UN Security Council ends political mission in Sudan
Khartoum [Sudan], December 2: The UN Security Council on Friday ended its political mission in Sudan at the country's request....

UAE President and Presidents of Brazil and Paraguay...
Dubai [UAE], December 2: UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan; Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President...

UAE President discusses bilateral relations and climate challenges...
Dubai [UAE], December 2: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met today with various heads of delegations...

UAE President honours 11 winners of Zayed Sustainability...
Dubai [UAE], December 2: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today honoured the winners of the Zayed...

OFID €50 million loan supports SMEs and green...
Vienna [Austria], December 2: The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has signed a €50 million loan with the West...

Saudi Space Agency, US Sierra Space sign MoU...
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], December 2: The Saudi Space Agency (SSA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sierra Space, a...

Moscow court fines Apple over refusal to localize...
Moscow [Russia], December 1: The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined Apple Inc. 12 million rubles (about 133,370 U.S. dollars)...

Canada launches three-digit suicide crisis helpline
Ottawa [Canada], December 1: The Canadian government on Thursday launched 988, a new three-digit suicide crisis helpline to provide suicide...

Japan's jobless rate falls to 2.5 pct in...
Tokyo [Japan], December 1: Japan's unemployment rate in October fell 0.1 percentage points from the previous month to 2.5 percent,...

At least 13 dead in Kazakhstan hostel fire
Moscow [Russia], December 1: At least 13 people have died in a hostel fire in the Central Asian republic of...

German terror group leader gets 6 years in...
Stuttgart [Germany], December 1: The ringleader of a far-right German terrorist group that allegedly plotted violent attacks on Muslims in...

Biden welcomes release of more hostages
Washington [US], December 1: US President Joe Biden has welcomed the release of hostages by Hamas, including an American woman.

Guterres calls for true humanitarian truce
Gaza Strip [Palestine], December 1: An extension of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza war is not...

Spanish PM: Recognizing Palestine only solution ending Middle...
Madrid [Spain], December 1: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez affirmed Thursday that recognizing the State of Palestine was the only...

Divisive US envoy Henry Kissinger dies aged 100
Washington [US], December 1: Henry Kissinger, the relentlessly ambitious US diplomat whose unapologetic promotion of raw American power helped shape...