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UAE President honours 11 winners of Zayed Sustainability Prize at COP28

UAE President honours 11 winners of Zayed Sustainability...

Dubai [UAE], December 2: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today honoured the winners of the Zayed...

OFID €50 million loan supports SMEs and green energy in West Africa

OFID €50 million loan supports SMEs and green...

Vienna [Austria], December 2: The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has signed a €50 million loan with the West...

Saudi Space Agency, US Sierra Space sign MoU to develop national capabilities in space

Saudi Space Agency, US Sierra Space sign MoU...

Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], December 2: The Saudi Space Agency (SSA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sierra Space, a...

Moscow court fines Apple over refusal to localize Russian user data

Moscow court fines Apple over refusal to localize...

Moscow [Russia], December 1: The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined Apple Inc. 12 million rubles (about 133,370 U.S. dollars)...

Canada launches three-digit suicide crisis helpline

Canada launches three-digit suicide crisis helpline

Ottawa [Canada], December 1: The Canadian government on Thursday launched 988, a new three-digit suicide crisis helpline to provide suicide...

Japan's jobless rate falls to 2.5 pct in October

Japan's jobless rate falls to 2.5 pct in...

Tokyo [Japan], December 1: Japan's unemployment rate in October fell 0.1 percentage points from the previous month to 2.5 percent,...

At least 13 dead in Kazakhstan hostel fire

At least 13 dead in Kazakhstan hostel fire

Moscow [Russia], December 1: At least 13 people have died in a hostel fire in the Central Asian republic of...

German terror group leader gets 6 years in prison

German terror group leader gets 6 years in...

Stuttgart [Germany], December 1: The ringleader of a far-right German terrorist group that allegedly plotted violent attacks on Muslims in...

Biden welcomes release of more hostages

Biden welcomes release of more hostages

Washington [US], December 1: US President Joe Biden has welcomed the release of hostages by Hamas, including an American woman.

Guterres calls for true humanitarian truce

Guterres calls for true humanitarian truce

Gaza Strip [Palestine], December 1: An extension of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza war is not...

Spanish PM: Recognizing Palestine only solution ending Middle East crisis

Spanish PM: Recognizing Palestine only solution ending Middle...

Madrid [Spain], December 1: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez affirmed Thursday that recognizing the State of Palestine was the only...

Divisive US envoy Henry Kissinger dies aged 100

Divisive US envoy Henry Kissinger dies aged 100

Washington [US], December 1: Henry Kissinger, the relentlessly ambitious US diplomat whose unapologetic promotion of raw American power helped shape...

Zelensky visits front as Russia ups attacks

Zelensky visits front as Russia ups attacks

Kyiv [Ukraine], December 1: Ukrainian President VolodymyrZelensky on Thursday visited a frontline command post in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces...

Nepal registers first same-sex marriage; 'historic', say activists

Nepal registers first same-sex marriage; 'historic', say activists

Kathmandu [Nepal], December 1: Local authorities in a village in Nepal registered the Himalayan nation's first same-sex marriage, officials and...

COP28 kicks off with climate disaster fund victory

COP28 kicks off with climate disaster fund victory

Dubai [UAE], December 1: The U.N. climate summit clinched an early victory Thursday, with delegates adopting a new fund to...

Hamas hands over two female hostages, others expected after truce extended

Hamas hands over two female hostages, others expected...

Gaza Strip [Palestine], December 1: Hamas handed two female hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza City's central Palestine Square...

World at risk of losing malaria fight as cases rise, report says

World at risk of losing malaria fight as...

Geneva [Switzerland], December 1: The world is in danger of losing the fight against malaria, as cases of the disease...

UN peacekeepers try to stay safe amid Lebanon-Israel border flare-ups

UN peacekeepers try to stay safe amid Lebanon-Israel...

Beirut [Lebanon], December 1: While trying to fulfil their mandate to keep the peace, U.N. soldiers deployed along Lebanon's border...

Gaza conflict: Middle East tourism struggles for survival

Gaza conflict: Middle East tourism struggles for survival

Cairo [Egypt], December 1: Moustafa Hassan is slowly starting to worry.

UAE, a pioneer in renewable energy: President of Palau

UAE, a pioneer in renewable energy: President of...

Dubai [UAE], December 1:SurangelWhipps Jr., President of Palau, said the UAE is a trailblazer in the field of renewable energy,...

US affirms commitment to finalising Loss and Damage Fund discussions at COP28

US affirms commitment to finalising Loss and Damage...

Dubai [UAE], December 1: The regional spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, Samuel Warburg, has affirmed that negotiations on...

Hamdan bin Mohammed welcomes King of Jordan as he arrives in UAE to participate in COP28

Hamdan bin Mohammed welcomes King of Jordan as...

Dubai [UAE], December 1: His Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, arrived in Abu...

UAE President meets with King Charles III at COP28 in Dubai

UAE President meets with King Charles III at...

Dubai [UAE], December 1: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met with His Majesty King Charles III...

1 killed as US military plane crashes off Japan's coast

1 killed as US military plane crashes off...

Tokyo [Japan], November 30: A US military plane has crashed into waters off the coast of Japan's Yakushima Island in...

Erdogan brands Netanyahu 'butcher of Gaza'

Erdogan brands Netanyahu 'butcher of Gaza'

Ankara [Turkey], November 30: Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan has declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be personally responsible for...

Talks under way on second extension to Israel-Gaza truce

Talks under way on second extension to Israel-Gaza...

Tel Aviv [Israel], November 30: A sixth group of hostages were set to be freed by Hamas in Gaza on...

Accelerate humanitarian aid to Gaza

Accelerate humanitarian aid to Gaza

Tel Aviv [Israel], November 30: Yesterday morning (Vietnam time), the US announced the airlift of more than 24.5 tons of...