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Kabul: A deadly explosion hit a central Kabul hotel on Monday, city police and the Afghan government said, and an AFP journalist saw firefighters near...

Port Sudan:United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, warned that serious violations committed against civilians in Sudan by the...

Caracas: As the first explosions rocked his military base in Caracas, 18 year old Saul Pereira Martinez sent his mother a simple message: I love you....

Damascus: The Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) agreed today, Sunday, on an immediate ceasefire across all fronts in Syria....

Beijing, China: China s birth rate plunged last year to its lowest level on record, official data showed on Monday, as its population shrank for a fou...

Brussels: European leaders on Sunday slammed US President Donald Trump s threat of tariffs over their opposition to his designs on Greenland, warning...

Rome: A light earthquake hit the northeastern corner of Sicily on Sunday, authorities said, but no damage was immediately reported. The quake regis...

Santiago, Chile: Wildfires raging in southern Chile have killed at least 15 people and forced more than 50,000 to evacuate, the government said Sunday...

Hohhot: An explosion at a factory in north China s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Sunday killed two people, left five others missing, and sent 66...

Brussels, Belgium: European leaders on Sunday hit back at US President Donald Trump s threat of tariffs over their opposition to his designs on Greenl...

Mexico City: Mexican military and police have arrested a man accused in the 2016 murder of a young woman in the United States, where the FBI had named...

Ramallah: The Israeli occupation forces on Saturday detained two young Palestinians after conducting incursions into the northern occupied West Bank,...

Paris, France: The floor of a Paris flat collapsed during a crowded party this weekend, seriously injuring one person, police, rescue services and pro...

Karachi, Pakistan: Atleast six people have been killed in a massive fire that engulfed the Gul Plaza shopping mall in Karachi on Saturday night. Hours...

Ottawa, Canada: Transport Canada has announced a recall for more than 300,000 Ford vehicles due to a risk that a short circuit can cause a fire, local...

Vienna: Five people were killed on Saturday after two avalanches struck western Austria s Salzburg region, local media reported. The first avalanch...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has arrested a total of 75 online scam suspects in the latest crackdown on the cyber scams, said a press release from the Ad Hoc...

Kampala, Uganda: Uganda s President Yoweri Museveni, 81, won a seventh term in office on Saturday with 71.65 percent of the vote, the country s Electo...

Cairo, Egypt: US President Donald Trump expressed his appreciation for the efforts of his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El Sisi for the mediation...

Istanbul: US President Donald Trump has invited Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to join the so called Board of Peace that will oversee post w...

Brisbane: A woman in Australia awoke in the middle of the night to discover a 2.5 metre long python curled up on her chest. According to the BBC, B...

Washington: The White House announced some of the members of what it refers to as the Board of Peace, which, under President Donald Trump s plan, will...

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping met on Thursday with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who is visiting Beijing, to discuss bilateral relation...

Prague: Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and his newly formed government have won a mandatory vote of confidence in parliament, one month after takin...

Johannesburg, South Africa: Flooding triggered by torrential rains in northeastern South Africa claimed at least 10 lives overnight and forced the clo...

Gaza: The death toll from Israeli airstrikes targeting various areas of the Gaza Strip since Thursday morning has risen to 7. Medical sources repor...

Washington, United States: The United States has seized another tanker in the Caribbean in its campaign to control oil leaving Venezuela, US Southern...

Bangkok: Thailand s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Thursday ordered the transport ministry to terminate its contracts and pursue legal action a...

Conakry: It s been nine months since Mariam Soumah, a 23 year old Guinean woman, says she last saw her baby girl Sabina. The mother is in Guinea, whil...

London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday said measures announced by Elon Musk s platform X to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from explicit...

Washington, United States: Four International Space Station crewmembers splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, NASA footage showed, after the...

Washington, United States: AI generated videos purportedly depicting protests inIranhave flooded the web, researchers said Wednesday, as social media...

Washington: Denmark s top diplomat said Wednesday he failed to change the mind of US President Donald Trump s administration on his threats to seize G...

London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that the United Kingdom will not back down on the issue of X s AI chatbot Grok, declar...

Washington: The United States said Wednesday it was suspending the processing of immigrant visas from 75 countries, President Donald Trump s latest mo...

Manila: The death toll from the deadly landfill landslide in the central Philippine city of Cebu has climbed to 20, as rescuers continued searching on...

Moscow: Russian police have arrested the chief physician and the acting head of intensive care at a Siberian hospital where nine babies died this mont...

Kinshasa: Eighteen people were killed and more than 30 are missing due to a landslide in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), triggered by...

Cairo: Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, affirmed the need to intensify regional and international ef...

Manila: More than 20 containers of radioactive zinc stranded in Manila Bay for months have been brought ashore to a safe place , the country s nuclea...

New York: US airline Delta said Tuesday it had ordered 30 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, as part of its ambition to operate the largest international...

Cairo: Egyptian Minister of Culture, Dr. Ahmed Fouad Henno announced that the State of Qatar has been chosen as the guest of honour at the Cairo Inter...

Paris: France recorded a negative natural population balance in 2025 for the first time since the end of World War II, as deaths outnumbered births, t...

Tegucigalpa: Honduras electoral authorities rejected Monday an order by the outgoing president to recount November s election won by Nasry Asfura....

Manama: Secretary General of the Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions (ANNHRIs),HE Sultan bin Hassan Al Jamali said that the digital sp...

Islamabad: Pakistani Commerce Minister Jam Kamal Khan met Monday with Indonesian Deputy Trade Minister Dipa Widya Putri, who is visiting Pakistan, to...

San Francisco, United States: Meta on Monday appointed banker Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chairman, tapping a former member of the Tru...

Tokyo: Ai, a genius chimpanzee who could recognise arabic numerals, over 100 Chinese characters and the English alphabet, has died aged 49, Japanese...

Paris, France: The Louvre Museum was forced to close on Monday due to strike action from staff in the latest disruption at the world s most visited mu...

Libreville, Gabon: Armed assailants boarded a fishing trawler off Gabon s coast over the weekend and abducted nine sailors, the defence ministry said....