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UN rights chief alerts humanitarian crisis in east DR Congo

UN rights chief alerts humanitarian crisis in east...

Goma [Congo], April 18: The United Nations (UN) human rights chief on Wednesday called for international attention to the ongoing...

Croatia's ruling party wins parliamentary elections

Croatia's ruling party wins parliamentary elections

Zagreb [Croatia], April 18: The ruling center-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), led by Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, won most...

Kremlin confirms withdrawal of troops from Nagorno-Karabakh region

Kremlin confirms withdrawal of troops from Nagorno-Karabakh region

Moscow [Russia], April 18: The Kremlin has confirmed reports that Russian troops are beginning to withdraw from the disputed region...

Iran's nuclear chief says IAEA boss will travel to Tehran for talks

Iran's nuclear chief says IAEA boss will travel...

Tehran [Iran], April 18: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, will shortly be travelling to...

France will not invite Putin to D-Day anniversary commemoration

France will not invite Putin to D-Day anniversary...

Paris [France], April 18: France says it will not invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the commemoration of the 80th...

Tip of iconic fallen spire survives Copenhagen stock exchange blaze

Tip of iconic fallen spire survives Copenhagen stock...

Copenhagen [Denmark], April 18: The undamaged top of the spire that fell from the burning historic stock exchange in Copenhagen...

EU launches sanctions on Iran after unprecedented attack on Israel

EU launches sanctions on Iran after unprecedented attack...

Tehran [Iran], April 18: European Union (EU) leaders have agreed to impose new sanctions on Iran following last weekend's unprecedented...

Vietnam's imprints at the United Nations

Vietnam's imprints at the United Nations

Hanoi [Vietnam], April 18: Affirming its position in the international arena, Vietnam has also continuously left many outstanding marks at...

Georgia presses on with 'foreign agents' bill opposed by EU

Georgia presses on with 'foreign agents' bill opposed...

Tbilisi [Georgia], April 18: Georgia's parliament approved the first reading of a bill on "foreign agents" that the European Union...

Israel will defend itself, Netanyahu says

Israel will defend itself, Netanyahu says

Jerusalem [Israel], April 18: Israel will make its own decisions about how to defend itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said,...

Russian villagers build homemade dam to keep out floods

Russian villagers build homemade dam to keep out...

Moscow [Russia], April 18: As floods engulfed large parts of central Russia, residents of one village defied advice to flee...

Seventeen killed in Ukraine's Chernihiv

Seventeen killed in Ukraine's Chernihiv

Chernihiv [Ukraine], April 18: Three Russian missiles slammed into the city centre of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, killing at least...

Tsunami alert after Ruang volcano erupts, thousands told to evacuate

Tsunami alert after Ruang volcano erupts, thousands told...

Jakarta [Indonesia], April 18: Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert after eruptions at Ruang Mountain sent ash thousands of feet...

UN Security Council to vote Friday on Palestinian UN membership

UN Security Council to vote Friday on Palestinian...

New York [US], April 18: The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote Friday on a Palestinian request for...

Netanyahu: Israel to defend amid Western calls

Netanyahu: Israel to defend amid Western calls

Jerusalem [Israel], April 18: Israel will make its own decisions about how to defend itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said...

UAE President receives phone call from Turkish President

UAE President receives phone call from Turkish President

Abu Dhabi [UAE], April 18: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today received a phone call from...

Myanmar's ex-leader Suu Kyi moved to house arrest

Myanmar's ex-leader Suu Kyi moved to house arrest

Naypyidaw [Myanmar], April 17: Myanmar's detained former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison...

Croatia votes in popularity test for the long-ruling HDZ

Croatia votes in popularity test for the long-ruling...

Zagreb [Croatia], April 17: Croats will cast their votes in a parliamentary vote that will test the popularity of Prime...

Blinken to raise China's support for Russia's defense industrial base during visit

Blinken to raise China's support for Russia's defense...

Washington [US], April 17: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on an upcoming visit to China is expected to raise...

Trump's criminal hush money trial has its first six jurors

Trump's criminal hush money trial has its first...

Washington [US], April 17: The first six jurors were selected to serve on Donald Trump's hush-money criminal trial, as the...

Spire collapses as historic Borsen engulfed in flames

Spire collapses as historic Borsen engulfed in flames

Copenhagen [Denmark], April 17: A fire that ripped through Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange, one of the Danish capital's most famous...

UN committee unable to agree on Palestinian bid for full membership

UN committee unable to agree on Palestinian bid...

New York [US], April 17: A United Nations Security Council committee considering an application by the Palestinian Authority to become...

US to query Israel about 6-year-old's killing in Gaza

US to query Israel about 6-year-old's killing in...

Washington [US], April 17: The U.S. State Department will ask Israel for more information about the January death of 6-year-old...

Sydney Bishop, beloved TikTok Star, stabbed

Sydney Bishop, beloved TikTok Star, stabbed

Sydney [Australia], April 17: Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel who was stabbed during a church service live streamed from Sydney on...

Israeli war cabinet meets again on Iran attack response

Israeli war cabinet meets again on Iran attack...

Tel Aviv [Israe], April 17: Israel's war cabinet was set to meet for the third time in three days on...

Australia says Assyrian church stabbing was terrorist act

Australia says Assyrian church stabbing was terrorist act

Sydney [Australia], April 17: Australian police on Tuesday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers...

Copenhagen's 'Notre Dame moment' as old bourse burns, loses spire

Copenhagen's 'Notre Dame moment' as old bourse burns,...

Copenhagen [Denmark], April 17: The Danish capital Copenhagen suffered its "Notre Dame moment" after the historic stock exchange, one of...