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Sao Paulo: Brazil's acting president, Hamilton Mourao, on Saturday criticized outgoing far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro for allowing anti-democratic sentiment to thrive in the...

Hong Kong: Hong Kong is working to resume quarantine-free travel with mainland China by as early as Jan. 8, Chief Secretary Eric Chan...

PARIS: France on Sunday urged European Union peers to test Chinese travellers for COVID after Paris decided to do so amid an outbreak...

Manila: Thousands of travellers were stranded at Philippine airports on Sunday after a "loss of communication" at the country's busiest hub in Manila...

Bogotá: Colombia's government has agreed to a six-month ceasefire with the five largest armed groups operating in the country, President Gustavo Petro announced...

Kampala: At least nine people died in a shopping mall crush as revellers rang in the New Year in Uganda's capital on Sunday,...

Kuwait City: The First Kuwaiti Satellite (Kuwait Sat-1) will launch on board a space rocket from the FKM platform on Tuesday Jan. 3,...

MANILA: Technical issues involving navigational air traffic management systems prompted Philippine aviation authorities to halt all flights to and from Manila on New...

Beijing: Travellers from China now face restrictions when entering more than a dozen countries as concern grows over its surge in Covid-19 cases,...

Kabul: An explosion outside the military airport in Kabul on Sunday has caused multiple casualties, a spokesman for the Taliban-run interior ministry said....

Facebook owner Meta Inc is preparing to announce whether it will allow former U.S. President Donald Trump back on to Facebook and Instagram,...

Seoul: North Korea fired one short-range ballistic missile into the sea on Sunday, the South Korean military reported, as Pyongyang pressed on with...

Caracas: Venezuela and Colombia will fully reopen their shared border on January 1 to allow passage of cargo and passenger transport via the...

Beijing: China's factory activity shrank at the sharpest pace since the pandemic first emerged nearly three years ago, after Beijing's abrupt reversal of...

London: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told Britons that the problems bedeviling the country won’t disappear in 2023, a warning that prompted the...

Rabat: Morocco will impose a ban on people arriving from China, whatever their nationality, from January 3 to avert any new wave of...

Tripoli: Two migrants died and another 200 were rescued on Saturday when their boat sank off Lebanon's northern coast, from where increasing numbers...

Hong Kong: China's top lawmaking body has given Hong Kong leader John Lee the power to bar foreign lawyers from national security cases,...