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Erdogan says Türkiye to hold elections on May 14 despite quakes

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

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

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 as reforms advance

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

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

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 says laws are for all

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 and his lawmakers

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 alleged traffickers

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

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 what went wrong

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

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 Azerbaijan

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 Court

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 under directives of Sheikha Fatima

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

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, others over Olympics bid-rigging

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

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 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 - the Great Prayer Day

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 NATO: Stoltenberg

'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 Brexit deal

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 school in Germany

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

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 today

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 NZ pilot

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 of Western espionage

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...