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Brunei plans to build waste-to-electricity incinerator plant
Bandar Seri Begawan [Brunei], March 20: Brunei plans to build a waste incineration plant that can process 800 to 1,000...
Israeli, Palestinian officials meet in Egypt
Cairo [Egypt],March 20: Israeli and Palestinian Authority (PA) officials are meeting in Egypt for talks amid criticism and calls for...
Road crash kills 19 in Bangladesh
Dhaka [Bangladesh], March 20: At least 19 people have been killed and up to 25 were injured in Bangladesh after...
Cyclone Freddy death toll surpasses 500
Lilongwe [Malawi], March 20: The death toll in southeast Africa due to the exceptionally long-lasting Tropical Cyclone Freddy has risen...
Nigeria counts votes after tense local elections marred...
Abuja [Nigeria], March 20: Vote counting was underway in Nigeria on Sunday following local elections marred by reports of violence,...
N Korea fires ballistic missile
Seoul [South Korea], March 20: North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on Sunday, Seoul's military said, the fourth show...
Iran, Iraq ink border deal
Baghdad [Iraq], March 20: Iran's top security official on Sunday signed a deal with Iraqi authorities for "protection" of their...
Assad in UAE amid growing Arab outreach
Dubai [UAE], March 20: Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad met Sunday with Emirati leaders in Abu Dhabi, his second Gulf visit...
UBS - Switzerland's largest bank officially acquired Credit...
Switzerland,March 20: Swiss bank UBS has agreed to buy crisis-hit rival Credit Suisse for 3 billion francs ($3.23 billion), while...
Canadian investigators seek seven missing after fire at...
Ottawa [Canada], March 20: Police and fire officials in Canada said they were preparing on Sunday to search the rubble...
Talk of Trump arrest builds sympathy for the...
Washington [US], March 20: The possibility that Donald Trump may be charged for allegedly covering up hush money payments to...
Magnitude 6.8 earthquake shakes Ecuador, at least 14...
Quito [Ecuador], March 20: At least 14 people were killed in a strong earthquake that shook a coastal region of...
South Africa aware of legal obligations regarding Putin...
Johannesburg [South Africa], March 20: South Africa is aware of its legal obligation, a spokesperson for President Cyril Ramaphosa said...
Macron would like the reform of the pension...
Paris [France], March 20:French President Emmanuel Macron (Emmanuel Macron) expressed today his wish that his hated reform of the pension...
The Egyptian president received Putin's special envoy for...
Cairo [Egypt], March 20: The President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, received today the Russian delegation led by the special...
Malawi Cyclone Freddy death toll hits 447, over...
Lilongwe [Malawi], March 19: The cumulative death toll from Cyclone Freddy in southern Malawi hit 447 as of 07:00 p.m....
UNECA says impacts of COVID-19, Ukraine crisis hamper...
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], March 19: The devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis have mired Africa's progress...
Rocket fired from Gaza hits southern Israel amid...
Jerusalem [Israel], March 19: A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit an open area landed in southern Israel on...
UK home secretary visits Rwanda to discuss migration...
Kigali [Rwanda], March 19: SuellaBraverman, home secretary of the United Kingdom (UK), arrived in Rwanda on Saturday for a two-day...
Vaccine-derived poliovirus in Congo, Burundi
Johannesburg [South Africa], March 19: Health officials in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo have detected cases of vaccine-derived...
New Zealand to ban TikTok from lawmaker's phones
Wellington [New Zealand], March 19: New Zealand on Friday will follow other Western countries and ban the video-sharing app TikTok...
Pressure mounts on Netanyahu as protests enter 11th...
Tel Aviv [Israel], March 19: Thousands of people came out in force again on Saturday in Israel to protest the...
Tony Blair: Putin can't use Iraq as justification...
London [UK], March 19: Former UK prime minister Tony Blair is by turns pensive and defiant as he reflects on...
Kyiv thanks UN, Turkey for 'sticking to' grain...
Kyiv [Ukraine], March 19: Ukraine's infrastructure minister on Saturday thanked the United Nations and Turkey for adhering to the agreements...
Biden celebrates St Patrick's Day with Irish PM...
Washington [US], March 19: US President Joe Biden and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar painted the town green Friday, celebrating...
Finland on course to join NATO
Ankara [Turkey], March 19: Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan ended months of diplomatically charged delays on Friday and asked parliament to...
Trump expects 'arrest', calls for protests
Washington [US], March 19: Former US President Donald Trump said he expects to be "arrested" on Tuesday over hush money...