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Erdogan says Türkiye to hold elections on May...
Ankara [Turkey], March 2: Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that his government plans to hold the presidential and...
Sunak backs official Covid inquiry after criticism
London [UK], March 2: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has defended the official coronavirus inquiry as the "right way" to...
Finnish parliament okays NATO bid
Helsinki [Finland], March 2: The Finnish parliament cleared the way for the country to join NATO on Wednesday, although one...
Blinken presses Uzbekistan to expand rights, investigate abuses...
Tashkent [Uzbekistan],March 2: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday pressed Uzbekistan to expand rights and investigate abuses as...
Wars, poverty fuel spike in Iraq child labor
Baghdad [Iraq], March 2: HaydarKarar spends eight hours a day tidying a carpentry shop and lugging wooden beams, forced like...
UN chief in 'solidarity' visit to Iraq
Baghdad [Iraq], March 2: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Iraq to "break cycles of instability and fragility" after talks with...
UK foreign minister raises BBC tax searches, India...
New Delhi [India], March 2: British Foreign Minister James Cleverly raised the issue of tax searches at the BBC's offices...
Sunak pitches new Brexit vision to Northern Ireland...
London [UK], March 2: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was in Northern Ireland and then met with his own lawmakers...
After Italian migrant boat wreck, police arrest three...
Rome [Italy], March 2: Italian authorities arrested three people and were looking for a fourth suspect who they believe trafficked...
Nigeria's Tinubu defends win in disputed presidential vote
Abuja [Nigeria], March 2: Nigeria's new president-elect, Bola Tinubu, defended the election he just won as credible on Wednesday but...
Hours after deadly train crash, Greece agonises over...
Athens [Greece], March 2:Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called it an unspeakable tragedy but questions are being asked whether the...
Netanyahu under pressure from U.S., Israeli protests grow
Jerusalem [Israel], March 2:Israel's closest ally the United States demanded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repudiate a call by his hardline...
Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah meets President of...
Baku [Azerbaijan], March 2: H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah,...
Mansour bin Zayed receives Chief of Mongolian Presidential...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], March 2: H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential...
Two Syrian children receiving medical treatment in UAE...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], March 2: Under the directives of Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women's...
Iranian armed forces launched large-scale air defensemaneuver
Tehran [Iran], March 1: Iran's armed forces on Tuesday started a large-scale real-combat air defensemaneuver in the country to show...
Criminal complaints filed against Japan's ad giant Dentsu,...
Tokyo [Japan], March 1: Japan's antitrust watchdog on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against advertising giant Dentsu Group Inc., five...
Thunberg demonstrates against wind farm, for indigenous rights
Copenhagen [Denmark], March 1: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has demonstrated in Oslo against a Norwegian wind farm that...
Istanbul hospitals evacuated due to earthquake effects
Istanbul [Turkey], March 1: Authorities in Istanbul have begun evacuating two city hospitals due to structural damage and decreased safety...
Danish parliament votes to abolish public holiday -...
Copenhagen [Denmark], March 1: A majority of the Danish parliament on Tuesday voted in favour of abolishing the public holiday...
'Time is now' to let Finland, Sweden join...
Brussels [Belgium], March 1: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday reiterated his call for Turkey and Hungary to let...
Pro-UK party in N Ireland urged to back...
London [UK], March 1: Leading politicians in Northern Ireland's parliament called on the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to make decision...
Shooting injures two people in front of elementary...
Berlin [Germany], March 1: German police announced Tuesday that two people were seriously injured in a shooting spree near an...
Moroccans struggle to afford vegetables as Ramadan looms
Sale[Morocco], March 1: Shoppers inspect vegetables at a huge market in Sale, near the Moroccan capital Rabat, but exploding prices...
Hong Kong to scrap COVID mask mandate from...
Hong Kong, March 1:Hong Kong will drop its COVID-19 mask mandate, chief executive John Lee said yesterday, in a move...
Indonesia vows restraint as troops surround separatists holding...
Jakarta [Indonesia], March 1: Security forces in Indonesia's restive Papua region have surrounded separatists holding captive a New Zealand pilot,...
Russians tighten noose on Ukraine's Bakhmut, Putin warns...
Moscow [Russia], March 1: Russian forces on Tuesday pressed forward their weeks-long drive to encircle and capture the eastern Ukrainian...