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Australian PM candidates formally launch election campaigns

Australian PM candidates formally launch election campaigns

Sydney [Australia], April 13: Australia's Prime Ministerial candidates have formally launched their election campaigns with multi-billion-dollar housing and tax policy...

Zelensky says air defense Ukraine's top priority

Zelensky says air defense Ukraine's top priority

Kiev [Ukraine], April 13: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that strengthening air defense capabilities is currently Ukraine's top priority.

Sri Lankan navy seizes heroin, meth off western coast

Sri Lankan navy seizes heroin, meth off western...

Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 13: The Sri Lankan navy has seized over 100 kg of heroin and crystal methamphetamine from...

Trump admin can't withhold Maine lunch funds over trans athlete policy: Judge

Trump admin can't withhold Maine lunch funds over...

New York [US], April 13: President Donald Trump's administration cannot cut off Maine's federal school lunch funding over the state's...

Gaza 'hell on earth' as hospital supplies running out, warns head of Red Cross

Gaza 'hell on earth' as hospital supplies running...

Gaza [Palestine], April 13: The president of the Red Cross described the humanitarian situation in Gaza on Friday as "hell...

Trump spares smartphones, computers, other electronics from China tariffs

Trump spares smartphones, computers, other electronics from China...

New York [US], April 13: President Donald Trump's administration granted exclusions from steep reciprocal tariffs to smartphones, computers and some...

Panama opposition slams security pact with the US

Panama opposition slams security pact with the US

Panama City [Panama], April 13: Opposition politicians in Panama have accused the United States of launching a "camouflaged invasion" of...

Russia attacks Ukraine with 88 drones

Russia attacks Ukraine with 88 drones

Kiev [Ukraine], April 13: At least four people were injured in 88 Russian drone attacks overnight and early Saturday morning...

Germany's Merz expects his govt to take office on May 6

Germany's Merz expects his govt to take office...

Berlin [Germany], April 13: Germany's incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz expects his new conservative-led government to take office on May 6,...

Manchester Arena bomb plotter attacks prison guards with hot oil

Manchester Arena bomb plotter attacks prison guards with...

London [UK], April 13: In Britain, Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi has attacked three prison guards with hot cooking...

Over 1,560 killed since Israel broke Gaza truce

Over 1,560 killed since Israel broke Gaza truce

Gaza [Palestine], April 13: The number of people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since Israel broke a ceasefire with...

Trump officials end 'protected status' for Afghans, Cameroonians

Trump officials end 'protected status' for Afghans, Cameroonians

New York [US], April 13: The administration of President Donald Trump has moved to end legal protections for thousands of...

Denmark extends border controls with Germany due to terrorism threat

Denmark extends border controls with Germany due to...

Copenhagen [Denmark], April 13: Denmark is extending its border controls with Germany for another six months, as the threat of...

Sudan Doctors Network condemns death of 10 medics in North Darfur

Sudan Doctors Network condemns death of 10 medics...

Omdurman [Sudan], April 13: The Sudan Doctors Network on Saturday condemned the death of 10 medical staff killed within two...

'Russia may deploy nuclear weapons in space'

'Russia may deploy nuclear weapons in space'

Brussels [Belgium], April 13: NATO is concerned that Russia could soon deploy nuclear weapons in space, according to a report...

Gabon holds first elections since coup

Gabon holds first elections since coup

Dakar [Senegal], April 13: Voters in Gabon were heading to the polls on Saturday for the first presidential election following...

Violent storms batter Beijing, parts of northern China

Violent storms batter Beijing, parts of northern China

Beijing [China], April 13: Storms and strong gusts of wind gusts are wreaking havoc in China's capital Beijing and some...

Mass rally in Bangladesh demands end to Israeli assaults on Gaza

Mass rally in Bangladesh demands end to Israeli...

Dhaka [Bangladesh], April 13: Tens of thousands of people gathered in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on Saturday to protest what organizers...

Final push for global pandemic treaty to begin on Tuesday in Geneva

Final push for global pandemic treaty to begin...

Geneva [Switzerland], April 13: Negotiators are entering the final stretch in protracted efforts to forge a global pandemic treaty aimed...

Bomb explodes outside Greece's railway company's offices in Athens

Bomb explodes outside Greece's railway company's offices in...

Athens [Greece], April 12: A bomb exploded Friday night outside the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece's railway company that operates...

Rwanda's urban inflation rises by 6.5% year-on-year in March

Rwanda's urban inflation rises by 6.5% year-on-year in...

Kigali [Rwanda], April 12: Rwanda's urban inflation rose sharply in March 2025, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increasing by...

Zambia launches construction of power transmission line to Tanzania

Zambia launches construction of power transmission line to...

Lusaka [Zambia], April 12: Zambia on Friday launched the construction of a power transmission line connected to Tanzania as well...

Tanzanian opposition leader charged with treason

Tanzanian opposition leader charged with treason

Dar es Salaam [Tanzania], April 12: Tanzania's opposition leader Tundu Lissu has been charged with treason and dissemination of false...

Security beefed up following unrest in NE Ghana

Security beefed up following unrest in NE Ghana

Accra [Ghana], April 12: Ghanaian police have beefed up security in several communities in the northeastern region following recent unrest...

UN calls for peaceful, transparent presidential election in Gabon

UN calls for peaceful, transparent presidential election in...

Libreville [Gabon], April 12: Abdou Abarry, special representative of the UN Secretary-General for Central Africa and head of the United...

Namibia opens Africa's first green iron plant

Namibia opens Africa's first green iron plant

Windhoek [Namibia], April 12: Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on Friday inaugurated Africa's first industrial-scale green iron plant, a facility that...

Zimbabwe-China tobacco expo to be held in Q3

Zimbabwe-China tobacco expo to be held in Q3

Harare [Zimbabwe], April 12: Zimbabwe will hold the first Zimbabwe-China tobacco expo in the third quarter of this year to...