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Argentina's public-sector workers launch "national day of struggle" against austerity

Argentina's public-sector workers launch "national day of struggle"...

Buenos Aires [Argentina], August 22: Workers from the Association of State Workers (ATE) launched a "national day of struggle" on...

Netanyahu says Israeli troops not to leave Gaza-Egypt border

Netanyahu says Israeli troops not to leave Gaza-Egypt...

Jerusalem [Israel], August 22: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied on Wednesday that he has agreed to withdraw military forces...

US aircraft carrier arrives in the Middle East, President Biden promises to protect Israel

US aircraft carrier arrives in the Middle East,...

Washington [US], August 22: The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its escort warships have arrived in the Middle East...

Philippines cancels passport, works with Interpol on mayor suspected of being Chinese

Philippines cancels passport, works with Interpol on mayor...

Manila [Philippines], August 22: The Philippines has provided the passport of a former mayor suspected of being Chinese to Interpol...

Iranian parliament approves new Cabinet

Iranian parliament approves new Cabinet

Tehran [Iran], August 22: Iran's parliament approved the new Cabinet of President Masoud Pezeshkian, with representatives agreeing to all 19...

Russia destroys 45 Ukrainian drones headed towards Moscow

Russia destroys 45 Ukrainian drones headed towards Moscow

Moscow [Russia], August 22: Russian air defences shot down 45 drones launched by Ukraine overnight, with 11 of them destroyed...

Kamala Harris' husband woos Chicago

Kamala Harris' husband woos Chicago

Chicago [US], August 22: He met Kamala Harris on a blind date, and on Tuesday her husband Doug Emhoff tried...

RFK Jr. to withdraw from Presidential race

RFK Jr. to withdraw from Presidential race

Washington [US], August 22: Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to drop out of the race by...

Five Kenyan policemen arraigned over jail break of suspected serial killer

Five Kenyan policemen arraigned over jail break of...

Nairobi [Kenya], August 22: Five Kenyan police officers were arraigned, accused of helping a suspected serial killer and 12 others...

At least 24 killed as Congolese boat overturns

At least 24 killed as Congolese boat overturns

Mai-Ndombe [Congo], August 22: At least 24 people died after an overloaded boat capsized on a river in Congo's Mai-Ndombe...

Helicopter of Iran's late President Raisi crashed due to weather

Helicopter of Iran's late President Raisi crashed due...

Tehran [Iran], August 22: The helicopter crash in which Iran's late President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in May was caused...

Iran: Bus crash kills at least 28 Pakistani pilgrims

Iran: Bus crash kills at least 28 Pakistani...

Tehran [Iran], August 22: A bus carrying Pakistani pilgrims crashed in central Iran killing at least 28 people on board,...

U.S. crude oil production projected to grow to average of 13.7 mbpd in 2025: EIA

U.S. crude oil production projected to grow to...

Washington [US], August 22: Crude oil production in the United States will grow to an average of 13.7 million barrels...

Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace participates in G20 Interfaith Forum in Brazil

Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace participates in G20...

Brasilia [Brazil], August 22: Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace participated in the inaugural session of the G20 Interfaith Forum (IF20)...

3.5-magnitutde quake hits northern Kuwait

3.5-magnitutde quake hits northern Kuwait

Kuwait City [Kuwait], August 22: The Kuwait National Seismic Network (KNSN), affilaited to Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), said...

Zimbabwe renews ban on alluvial, riverbed mining

Zimbabwe renews ban on alluvial, riverbed mining

Harare [Zimbabwe], August 21: The Zimbabwean government on Tuesday renewed its ban on alluvial and riverbed mining to curb environmental...

Croatia re-nominates Dubravka Suica for European Commission

Croatia re-nominates Dubravka Suica for European Commission

Zagreb [Croatia], August 21: The Croatian government has re-nominated Dubravka Suica, the current vice president of the European Commission, as...

EU approves Germany's 5-bln-euro subsidy for semiconductor plant

EU approves Germany's 5-bln-euro subsidy for semiconductor plant

Brussels [Belgium], August 21: The European Union (EU) has approved a 5-billion-euro (5.56 billion U.S. dollars) state subsidy from Germany...

Musk says 'willing to serve' in US govt

Musk says 'willing to serve' in US govt

New York [US], August 21: US entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Tuesday that he was ready to have a role...

Tunisian election will be a 'mere formality': Human rights activists

Tunisian election will be a 'mere formality': Human...

Cairo [Egypt], August 21: Tunisian authorities have intensified their crackdown on critics of President Kais Saied, just over six weeks...

German court upholds conviction of 99-year-old ex-Nazi camp secretary

German court upholds conviction of 99-year-old ex-Nazi camp...

Leipzig [Germany], August 21: Germany's Federal Court of Justice on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a 99-year-old former secretary at...

Convention spotlight shines on Biden - with speech he never wanted to give

Convention spotlight shines on Biden - with speech...

Chicago [US], August 21: It was not the speech Joe Biden wanted to give. At least, not this year, under...

Russia urges Kursk residents and soldiers to boost online security

Russia urges Kursk residents and soldiers to boost...

Moscow [Russia], August 21: The Russian Interior Ministry urged residents on Tuesday in three border regions near Ukraine to deactivate...

Kenya 'psychopath' serial killer suspect escapes from police

Kenya 'psychopath' serial killer suspect escapes from police

Nairobi [Kenya], August 21: Red-faced Kenyan police on Tuesday arrested eight of their own officers and launched a manhunt after...

For black Britons, UK riots leave lasting scars

For black Britons, UK riots leave lasting scars

London [UK], August 21: "Please do not go out until this blows over," Sarah Akinterinwa, messaged a friend on August...

Prabowo visits Australia, unveils defense pact

Prabowo visits Australia, unveils defense pact

Canberra [Australia], August 21: Australia and Indonesia cemented a landmark new defense pact Tuesday, pledging closer cooperation in the Asia-Pacific...

Putin visits Chechnya for first time since 2011

Putin visits Chechnya for first time since 2011

Moscow [Russia], August 21: RT reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Chechnya on the evening of August 20...