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Oil prices drop as banking woes stoke recession...
New York [US], March 18: Oil prices fell on Friday, booking significant losses for the week, as banking turmoil rattled...
5.3-magnitude quake hits North Island of New Zealand:...
Wellington [New Zealand], March 18: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted North Island of New Zealand at 15:46...
Japanese PM vows to raise childcare leave benefits...
Tokyo [Japan], March 18: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday vowed to increase childcare leave benefits in a bid...
11 US banks pumped money to rescue 1...
Washington [US], March 18: Eleven of the largest banks in the United States will deposit a total of $30 billion...
Two NATO countries send fighter jets to Ukraine
Kyiv [Ukraine], March 18: On March 17, Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger said that the government of Slovakia had approved...
Protests erupt over pension reform in France
Paris [France], March 18: The French government faces fierce protests after pushing for controversial pension reforms without a vote in...
Vietnam calls for end to violence in Myanmar
Hanoi [Vietnam], March 18: The head of Vietnam's permanent representative mission to the United Nations expressed Vietnam's concerns and called...
Son of US President sues laptop repairman for...
Washington [US], March 18: Mr. Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, filed a lawsuit against a computer repairman...
Moldovan parliament approves law on Romanian language
Chișinău [Maldova], March 18: Moldova's parliament on Thursday approved a law on referring to the national language as Romanian in...
Mexico launches appeal in suit against U.S. gun...
Mexico City [Mexico], March 18: Mexico has filed an appeal in a civil lawsuit against U.S.-based gun manufacturers, it said...
Vaccine-derived poliovirus detected in Burundi, Congo
Kinshasa [DR Congo], March 18:Health officials in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have detected cases of vaccine-derived...
Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian in the West...
Jerusalem [Israel], March 18: The Israeli army announced that soldiers shot a Palestinian who approached them armed with a knife...
Xi to hold talks with Putin in Russia...
Beijing [China], March 18: Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to Russia next week, Beijing and...
Zionist raid in West Bank kills 4 Palestinians
Ramallah [Palestine], March 17: Zionist forces on Thursday killed four Palestinians including a teenager in the occupied West Bank, the...
US releases video of Russia drone collision
Washington [US], March 17: The United States on Thursday released a video it said shows an "unsafe" and "unprofessional" intercept...
Iran security official holds talks in UAE after...
Dubai [UAE], March 17: Iran's top security official on Thursday held high-level talks in the United Arab Emirates, days after...
Thai army prevents oil spill from vessel carrying...
Washington [US], March 17: The vessel containing 400,000 barrels of crude oil suffered a hull leak while undergoing routine maintenance...
The US, Russia race to recover the crashed...
Washington [US], March 17: The US and Russia had high-level phone calls to discuss the US reconnaissance drone crash in...
North Korea confirms launch of Hwasong-17 rocket and...
Pyongyang [North Korea], March 17: North Korea says it launched the Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), its largest, in a...
The "storm" of the banking crisis moved to...
Washington [US], March 17: When the chaos following the collapse of three US banks, Silvergate, Silicon Valley and Signature, had...
Tensions raging in Northeast Asia
Pyongyang [North Korea], March 17: North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile as the United States and South Korea conducted...
One killed in blast at FSB building in...
Moscow [Russia], March 17: At least one person was killed and two were injured in a blast and fire at...
Survivors in shock as Cyclone Freddy toll passes...
Lilongwe [Malawi], March 17: The last thing LukiaAkimu remembers is the surge of floodwater that hit her village near Mount...
Heavy rains in California leave backyard pool perched...
California [US], March 17: As heavy rains soaked into already sodden ground in California, mudslides in the beachfront community of...
Death toll from Colombia coal mine explosion climbs...
Bogota [Colombia], March 17: Ten miners reported missing after an explosion caused by accumulated gas in coal mines in central...
Striking Greeks protest over deadly train crash
Athens [Greece], March 17: Thousands of Greek workers walked off the job and rallied in central Athens in protest at...
South Korea and Japan hail spring thaw amid...
Seoul [South Korea] March 17: The leaders of Japan and South Korea promised to turn the page on years of...