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Sweden to call in military to help crack down on gangs

Sweden to call in military to help crack...

Stockholm [Sweden], September 30: Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson was meeting the head of Sweden's armed forces and the police chief...

Riyadh hosts World Tourism Day with participation of over 500 officials, experts from 120 countries

Riyadh hosts World Tourism Day with participation of...

Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], September 30: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday hosted the events of World Tourism Day 2023 under the theme...

Heavy rainfall, floods New York City bring to a halt

Heavy rainfall, floods New York City bring to...

New York [US], September 30: Severe rainfall battered New York City on Friday causing widespread disruptions as subways and airports...

Abu Dhabi Police Commander-in-Chief meets Commissioner of Israeli National Police

Abu Dhabi Police Commander-in-Chief meets Commissioner of Israeli...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 30: Staff Major General Pilot FarisKhalaf Al Mazrouei, Abu Dhabi Police Commander-in-Chief, met Commissioner of the...

ADAFSA to develop integrated strategy to reduce food loss & waste

ADAFSA to develop integrated strategy to reduce food...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 30: The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA) is intensifying its efforts to develop...

Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed meets Prime Minister of Albania

Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed meets Prime Minister...

Tirana [Albania], September 30: H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, has met...

U.S. California's surging gas prices spark call to suspend tax

U.S. California's surging gas prices spark call to...

California [US], September 29: The U.S. state of California is again witnessing gasoline prices soar to near record highs, sparking...

Australian Defence Force helicopters retired following fatal crash

Australian Defence Force helicopters retired following fatal crash

Canberra [Australia], September 29: The Australian Defence Force's fleet of MRH-90 Taipan helicopters have been retired early following a fatal...

Expansion of North Korea nuclear force enshrined in law

Expansion of North Korea nuclear force enshrined in...

Pyongyang [North Korea],September 29: North Korean law now allows for its nuclear force to be expanded after the policy was...

Taiwan launches its first domestically built submarine

Taiwan launches its first domestically built submarine

Taipei [Taiwan], September 29: Taiwan launched its first domestically built submarine on Thursday. President Tsai Ing-wen said building submarines domestically...

Stoltenberg, in Kiev, sees progress in Ukrainian counteroffensive

Stoltenberg, in Kiev, sees progress in Ukrainian counteroffensive

Kiev [Ukraine], September 29: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met President VolodymyrZelensky in Kiev on Thursday during his second visit...

Biden warns democracies 'can die when people are silent'

Biden warns democracies 'can die when people are...

Washington [US], September 29: President Joe Biden urged Americans to stand up for democracy in a speech Thursday that accused...

Vietnam jails environmental activist for 3 years for tax fraud

Vietnam jails environmental activist for 3 years for...

Hanoi [Vietnam],September 29: A Vietnamese court has sentenced an environmental activist to three years in prison on charges of tax...

Shutdown odds grow as Senate, House advance separate spending plans

Shutdown odds grow as Senate, House advance separate...

Washington [US], September 29: The Democratic-led U.S. Senate forged ahead with a bipartisan stopgap funding bill aimed at averting a...

Karabakh Armenians dissolve breakaway government in capitulation to Azerbaijan

Karabakh Armenians dissolve breakaway government in capitulation to...

Yerevan [Armenia], September 29: Ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh said they were dissolving the breakaway statelet they had defended for three...

Appeals court will not delay Donald Trump civil fraud trial

Appeals court will not delay Donald Trump civil...

New York [US], September 29: A New York appeals court refused to delay Donald Trump's scheduled Oct. 2 civil fraud...

Powerful blast in Uzbek capital kills one, injures 162

Powerful blast in Uzbek capital kills one, injures...

Tashkent [Uzbekistan], September 29: One person was killed and 162 injured by a powerful explosion at a warehouse near Tashkent's...

Student gunman kills three in Rotterdam university shooting

Student gunman kills three in Rotterdam university shooting

Amsterdam [Netherlands], September 29: A gunman killed three people in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Thursday, shooting a local...

Heavy rain hits north Vietnam, halting traffic in Hanoi

Heavy rain hits north Vietnam, halting traffic in...

Hanoi [Vietnam], September 29: Heavy rain from a tropical depression hit northern and north-central Vietnam, causing flooding that halted traffic...

Spain: Teen stabs three teachers, two students

Spain: Teen stabs three teachers, two students

Madrid [Spain], September 29: Police in Spain detained a teenager for stabbing three teachers and two students at a school...

Greece: Storm Elias wreaks havoc on city of Volos

Greece: Storm Elias wreaks havoc on city of...

Athens [Greece], September 29: A second powerful storm turned streets into rivers in central Greece on Thursday.

UAE calls for de-escalation and return to dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo

UAE calls for de-escalation and return to dialogue...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 29: The UAE affirmed that it is following with great concern the recent tensions between the...

Nahyan bin Mubarak attends Chinese Embassy's reception on National Day

Nahyan bin Mubarak attends Chinese Embassy's reception on...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 29:Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, attended a reception hosted by...

SaqrGhobash meets Speaker of Iranian Parliament

SaqrGhobash meets Speaker of Iranian Parliament

Johannesburg [South Africa], September 29: SaqrGhobash, Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC), met with Mohammad BagherGhalibaf, Speaker of the...

Collective efforts needed to stop wasting food while millions go hungry: UN

Collective efforts needed to stop wasting food while...

Rome [Italy], September 29: A staggering one billion tonnes of food are wasted every year, while up to 783 million...

UAE President offers condolences to King of Bahrain on martyrs of duty

UAE President offers condolences to King of Bahrain...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 29: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan conducted a phone call today with...

Cosmonauts return to Earth after longest space mission

Cosmonauts return to Earth after longest space mission

Vladivostok [Russia], September 28: Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos announced that two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut have safely...