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South Korea bans trade in dog meat

South Korea bans trade in dog meat

Seoul [South Korea], January 10: South Korea's parliament on Tuesday passed a bill banning breeding, slaughtering and selling dogs for...

Israeli forces say they locate large underground weapons factory in Gaza

Israeli forces say they locate large underground weapons...

Jerusalem [Israel], January 10: Israeli forces located what they said was the largest weapons production site so far found in...

Ecuador's 'most-wanted' criminal disappears from prison

Ecuador's 'most-wanted' criminal disappears from prison

Quito [Ecuador], January 10: Ecuador's "most-wanted prisoner", the leader of the Los Choneros criminal group, disappeared from the jail where...

US top diplomat urges Israel to avoid harming civilians in Gaza

US top diplomat urges Israel to avoid harming...

Washington [US], January 10: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israeli leaders to avoid harming civilians as it presses...

Massive winter storm batters US

Massive winter storm batters US

Washington [US], January 10: A massive winter storm moving across the eastern half of the U.S. on Tuesday knocked out...

Biden rejects calls for US defence secretary removal

Biden rejects calls for US defence secretary removal

Washington [US], January 10: US President Joe Biden does not plan to fire Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin after the...

Critical fuel loss derails US first moon landing in 50 years

Critical fuel loss derails US first moon landing...

Florida [US], January 10: The first US-based spacecraft to attempt a moon landing in more than half a century is...

Germany: Asylum applications rose sharply in 2023

Germany: Asylum applications rose sharply in 2023

Berlin [Germany], January 10: Altogether 352,000 people sought asylum in Germany in 2023, with some 329,000 putting in a first...

Gabriel Attal, 34, to become France's youngest prime minister in decades

Gabriel Attal, 34, to become France's youngest prime...

Paris [France], January 10: French Education Minister Gabriel Attal has been tipped by President Macron as the new prime minister...

Bahrain hosts 4th meeting of Higher Committee of Integrated Industrial Partnership For Sustainable Economic Development

Bahrain hosts 4th meeting of Higher Committee of...

Manama [Bahrain], January 10: The Kingdom of Bahrain will host the fourth meeting of the Higher Committee of the Integrated...

UAE economy expected to grow by 3.8% in 2025: World Bank

UAE economy expected to grow by 3.8% in...

Washington [US], January 10: The World Bank expected the UAE's real GDP to grow by 3.4 percent in 2023, rising...

China trains high-quality farmers for rural revitalisation

China trains high-quality farmers for rural revitalisation

Beijing [China], January 10: High-quality farmers are playing a pivotal role in driving China's comprehensive rural revitalization. According to People's...

World's first 100,000-tonne Green Hydrogen project starts operating in Inner Mongolia

World's first 100,000-tonne Green Hydrogen project starts operating...

Ulan Bator [Mongolia], January 10: A photovoltaic hydrogen demonstration project in Juungar Banner, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was recently connected...

Freight train derailed in Russia's Far East region

Freight train derailed in Russia's Far East region

Moscow [Russia], January 9: A freight train on Monday evening collided with an empty train when running along the Trans-Baikal...

21 injured in hotel explosion in U.S. Texas

21 injured in hotel explosion in U.S. Texas

Houston [US], January 9: At least 21 people were injured following an explosion on Monday at a hotel in downtown...

Polls open in Bhutan's general elections

Polls open in Bhutan's general elections

Thimphu [Bhutan], January 9: Voters in Bhutan began casting their ballots Tuesday as polls opened for the country's final round...

Death toll rises to 180 in Japan's quake-hit Ishikawa prefecture

Death toll rises to 180 in Japan's quake-hit...

Tokyo [Japan], January 9: The death toll climbed to 180 in the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa as of 9...

WHO unable to deliver medical supplies to northern Gaza

WHO unable to deliver medical supplies to northern...

Gaza [Palestine], January 9: The World Health Organization (WHO) says it has not been able to reach the north of...

French govt resigns after political wrangling over immigration

French govt resigns after political wrangling over immigration

Paris [France], January 9: The centre-right government of French prime minister Élisabeth Borne has resigned, the presidential palace in Paris...

Rescuers free tourists and guides trapped in Slovenian cave

Rescuers free tourists and guides trapped in Slovenian...

Ljubljana [Slovenia], January 9: Rescuers successfully freed five people from a cave in Slovenia on Monday, two days after the...

Russia evacuates hundreds from border city amid Ukraine strikes

Russia evacuates hundreds from border city amid Ukraine...

Kyiv [Ukraine], January 9: Russia said Monday it had moved some 300 people from the border city of Belgorod due...

Blinken meets MBZ, MBS on regional tour

Blinken meets MBZ, MBS on regional tour

Washington [US], January 9: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Monday with Saudi Arabia's crown prince before heading to...

Israeli strike kills a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon

Israeli strike kills a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon

Beirut [Lebanon], January 9: Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander in a strike in south Lebanon.

Pope calls for universal ban on surrogate parenting

Pope calls for universal ban on surrogate parenting

Rome [Italy], January 9: Pope Francis called for a global ban on parenting via surrogacy, calling the practice "deplorable" and...

Israel shifts to deadlier strikes on Iran-linked targets in Syria

Israel shifts to deadlier strikes on Iran-linked targets...

Damascus [Syria], January 9: Israel is carrying out an unprecedented wave of deadly strikes in Syria.

US fighter jets to fly over Bosnia in warning to 'secessionist' Serbs

US fighter jets to fly over Bosnia in...

Washington [US], January 9: Two F-16 fighter jets will fly over Bosnia.

Germany: Farmers' protest causes nationwide disruption

Germany: Farmers' protest causes nationwide disruption

Munich [Germany], January 9: German farmers are angered by the government's plans to slash agricultural subsidies. Blockades are expected to...