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Israel to open southern Ramon Airport to Palestinians:...
Jerusalem (Israel), August 3: Israel has approved a plan to allow Palestinian passengers to use Ramon International Airport in southern...

Lebanese president calls for increasing cultural cooperation in...
Beirut (Lebanon), August 3: Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Tuesday called for increased cultural cooperation in the Arab world at...

Iraqi PM calls for national dialogue to settle...
Baghdad (Iraq), August 2: Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Monday called for a national dialogue to settle the current...

Putin Says There Can Be No Winners In...
Moscow (Russia), August 2: Russian President Vladimir Putin said that there could be no winners in a nuclear war and...

Blinken reaffirms U.S. commitment to NPT, citing threats...
Washington (US), August 2: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken highlighted the importance of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) on...

Inflation at near 24-year high in July; another...
Seoul (South Korea), August 2: South Korea's consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in almost 24 years in July...

New infections at over 3-month high; imported cases...
Seoul (South Korea), August 2: South Korea's new COVID-19 cases sharply rose to over 110,000 on Tuesday as a highly...

UN chief calls for action in 5 areas...
United Nations, August 2: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday highlighted five areas for action to strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation...

Over 1.2 mln people remain displaced in Myanmar:...
United Nations, August 2: More than 1.2 million people are now displaced across Myanmar, including over 866,000 people displaced by...

Uruguay to start vaccination campaign against monkeypox
Montevideo (Uruguay), August 2: Uruguay will begin a vaccination campaign against monkeypox aimed "specifically" at those who have been exposed...

Nuclear war must never be initiated: Putin
Moscow (Russia), August 2: A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, Russian President Vladimir Putin said...

Poland commemorates 78th anniversary of Warsaw Uprising
Warsaw (Poland), August 2: Poland commemorated the 78th anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising on Monday, with events taking place...

Pakistan military helicopter goes missing in SW Pakistan,...
ISLAMABAD, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- A Pakistan military helicopter lost contact with the air traffic control in Lasbela district of...

Russia bans 39 Britons from entry
Moscow (Russia), August 2: The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that 39 British citizens have been barred from entering...

France detects bird flu at turkey farm
Paris (France), August 2: The highly pathogenic bird flu, or avian influenza, has been detected at a turkey farm in...

Biden says U.S. killed al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri in...
Washington (US), August 2: U.S. President Joe Biden announced Monday evening that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed in...

UN chief welcomes 1st sailing of vessel from...
United Nations, August 2: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday welcomed the first commercial vessel sailing from Ukraine's Odesa under...

Japan's gov't panel agrees on record minimum wage...
Tokyo (Japan), August 2: A panel of the Japanese government on Monday agreed to the plan to increase the average...

Mexico's economy rebounds in early third quarter
Mexico City (Mexico), August 2: Mexico's economy regained strength at the start of the third quarter of 2022, after losing...

Overlapping crises accelerating health inequality: WHO
Montreal [Canada], August 2: World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that overlapping crises of COVID-19,...

Sudan reports 1st confirmed case of monkeypox
Khartoum (Sudan), August 2: Sudan's health ministry announced on Monday the first confirmed case of monkeypox in the country.

Somalia, UN agencies vow to create breastfeeding-friendly environments...
Mogadishu (Somalia), August 2: Somalia and two United Nations agencies on Monday vowed to step up efforts to ensure breastfeeding-friendly...

UNICEF sees increase in exclusive breastfeeding rates in...
Juba (South Sudan), August 2: The United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, said Monday that 68 percent of children in...

Assembly Speaker Kim to meet with U.S. House...
Seoul (South Korea), August 1: National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo will meet with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi later this...

Online shopping up around 10 pct in June...
Seoul (South Korea), August 1: Online shopping in South Korea rose around 10 percent in June from a year ago...

SK, Tokuyama start off construction for semiconductor cleaning...
Seoul (South Korea), August 1: SK Geocentric Co., a chemical unit of South Korea's SK Group, said Monday the construction...

US, EU Dialogue on Combating Terrorism With Moscow...
Moscow (Russia), August 1: The United States and the European Union have frozen dialogue on the fight against terrorism...