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EU leaders set for video call following Washington meeting with Trump

EU leaders set for video call following Washington...

Washington DC [US], August 19: EU leaders are set to hold a video conference call on Tuesday following a high-stakes...

Trump moves to abolish postal voting ahead of 2026 midterm elections

Trump moves to abolish postal voting ahead of...

Washington DC [US], August 19: US President Donald Trump wants to abolish postal voting and electronic voting machines with an...

France extends youth night curfew in Nîmes over drug crimes

France extends youth night curfew in Nîmes over...

Paris [France], August 19: A night-time curfew for young people in Nîmes in southern France has been extended until the...

Patriotism important to UK's Starmer

Patriotism important to UK's Starmer

London [UK], August 19: Patriotism "will always be an important thing" to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Downing Street said, after...

Trump to call Putin after meeting European leaders

Trump to call Putin after meeting European leaders

Washington DC [US], August 19: US President Donald Trump on Monday said he will call Russian President Vladimir Putin after...

Amnesty slams Israel for deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza

Amnesty slams Israel for deliberately starving Palestinians in...

London [UK], August 19: The human rights group Amnesty International has accused Israel of enacting a "deliberate policy" of starvation...

Myanmar to hold 1st general election since 2021 coup

Myanmar to hold 1st general election since 2021...

Naypyidaw [Myanmar], August 19: Myanmar will begin its general elections on December 28, its military government announced, in a phased...

Bolivia's presidential election heads to runoff between opposition candidates

Bolivia's presidential election heads to runoff between opposition...

Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], August 19: Preliminary results show that Bolivia's presidential election will go to a runoff, as no...

Iraq starts excavating mass grave of suspected Islamic State victims

Iraq starts excavating mass grave of suspected Islamic...

Baghdad [Iraq], August 19: Iraq will work on identifying victims at a mass grave believed to hold the remains of...

Iran says it will resume talks in the coming days with UN nuclear watchdog

Iran says it will resume talks in the...

Tehran [Iran], August 19: Iran plans to hold another round of talks with the UN's nuclear watchdog in the coming...

Trump hosts Zelensky for Oval Office talks

Trump hosts Zelensky for Oval Office talks

Washington DC [US], August 19: US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky held a highly publicized meeting in the...

Moscow rejects deployment of NATO troops

Moscow rejects deployment of NATO troops

Moscow [Russia], August 19: Russia has once again categorically rejected the deployment of troops from NATO countries in Ukraine amid...

Dozens injured after quake rocks central Indonesia

Dozens injured after quake rocks central Indonesia

Jakarta [Indonesia], August 18: At least 29 people were injured - including two who are in a critical condition -...

Iraq excavates mass grave of 4,000 people executed by IS

Iraq excavates mass grave of 4,000 people executed...

Baghdad [Iraq], August 18: The Iraqi government has begun excavating a mass grave near the city of Mosul where thousands...

Egypt rejects Israeli plans to displace Palestinians, warns of legal, regional consequences

Egypt rejects Israeli plans to displace Palestinians, warns...

Cairo [Egypt], August 18: Egypt has firmly renewed its rejection of any Israeli plans to displace Palestinians from their historical...

Belgium meets EU target for winter with gas reserves

Belgium meets EU target for winter with gas...

Brussels [Belgium], August 18: The Belgian gas supply is currently 92.1% full. Brussels, along with Portugal, has already met the...

Hamas rejects Israel's Gaza relocation plan

Hamas rejects Israel's Gaza relocation plan

Gaza [Palestine], August 18: Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Sunday that Israel's plan to relocate residents from Gaza City...

Oil markets seen bearish after Trump-Putin Alaska meeting

Oil markets seen bearish after Trump-Putin Alaska meeting

Alaska [US], August 18: Oil markets are set for a muted price reaction when they open on Sunday after U.S....

Spain battles 20 major wildfires amid scorching heat

Spain battles 20 major wildfires amid scorching heat

Madrid [Spain], August 18: Scorching heat hampered efforts to contain 20 major wildfires across Spain on Sunday, prompting the government...

PM's approval up, support for statehood split: polls

PM's approval up, support for statehood split: polls

London [UK], August 18: The percentage of voters happy with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's performance outnumbers those dissatisfied for the...

Zelensky to bring European leaders to White House

Zelensky to bring European leaders to White House

Berlin [Germany] / Paris [France], August 18: European leaders, including France's Emmanuel Macron, Britain's Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich...

Russia agrees to US, European security guarantees: Witkoff

Russia agrees to US, European security guarantees: Witkoff

Moscow [Russia], August 18: Russia has agreed to allow the United States and European allies to provide NATO-like security guarantees...

Amidst diplomatic efforts, war fronts remain active, says Ukraine military

Amidst diplomatic efforts, war fronts remain active, says...

Kiev [Ukraine], August 18: In the shadow of the activities on the diplomatic and political fronts, Russian and Ukrainian troops...

More than 200 still missing in flood-hit district of Pakistan

More than 200 still missing in flood-hit district...

Islamabad [Pakistan], August 18: More than 200 people remain missing in one district of north-west Pakistan as a result of...

Israeli military carries out attacks on power plant near Yemeni capital Sanaa

Israeli military carries out attacks on power plant...

Sanaa [Yemen], August 18: The Israeli navy has carried out attacks on a power plant near the Yemeni capital Sanaa,...

Israelis hold nationwide protest to end Gaza war, 'bring back the hostages'

Israelis hold nationwide protest to end Gaza war,...

Tel Aviv [Israel], August 18: Thousands of protesters in Israel have taken to the streets demanding an end to the...

Erin downgraded to Category 3 hurricane, says US National Hurricane Center

Erin downgraded to Category 3 hurricane, says US...

Washington [US], August 18: Hurricane Erin, the first hurricane of this year's Atlantic season, is a Category 3, the United...