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Seoul to resume loudspeaker propaganda against North 09 Jun 2024 - 01:24 pm

Seoul: South Korea announced Sunday that it would resume loudspeaker propaganda campaigns against the North after Pyongyang sent a fresh barrage of trash-filled...

LIVE UPDATES: Nightmare as Gaza hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured 09 Jun 2024 - 12:58 pm

Doha, Qatar:With more than 200 killed and over 400 wounded, Israel's raid on Nuseirat has been described as "complete bloodbath" by doctors working...

Algerian President calls for holding presidential elections in September 08 Jun 2024 - 08:37 pm

Algiers: Abdelmadjid Tebboune has called for holding presidential elections on Sept. 7. In a statement on Saturday, the Presidency of the Republic of...

Colombia to suspend coal sales to Israeli entity over Gaza onslaught 08 Jun 2024 - 08:10 pm

Bogotá: Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced Saturday that his government will suspend coal exports to Israel while it continues its war against the...

Wildfires in south Lebanon after Israeli bombardment: media, rescuer 08 Jun 2024 - 06:28 pm

Beirut, Lebanon: Israeli strikes Saturday on southern Lebanon sparked massive wildfires, state media and a first responder said, the latest fallout from escalating...

North Korea sends trash-carrying balloons again: Seoul military 08 Jun 2024 - 05:37 pm

Seoul: North Korea again sent trash-carrying balloons towards the South on Saturday, the South Korean military said, after anti-Pyongyang activists in the South...

Muslim-majority allies urge world to up pressure on Israel 08 Jun 2024 - 05:24 pm

Doha: An alliance of mostly Muslim-majority countries including Turkey, Egypt and Iran on Saturday demanded full Palestinian membership of the United Nations and...

Python swallows woman whole in Indonesia 08 Jun 2024 - 04:03 pm

Makassar, Indonesia: A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a...

Centenarian WWII vet marries in French town after D-Day events 08 Jun 2024 - 03:14 pm

Carentan, France:It might have been the longest wait but on Saturday 100-year-old American World War II veteran Harold Terens married his 96-year-old fiancee...

Rahul Gandhi nominated as leader of India's opposition 08 Jun 2024 - 01:09 pm

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's chief rival Rahul Gandhi was nominated on Saturday to lead India's opposition in parliament after an election...

Apollo 8 astronaut dies in small plane crash at age 90 08 Jun 2024 - 12:02 pm

Washington: William Anders, the former US astronaut who took the historic "Earthrise" photo from space over 55 years ago, died in a plane...

Danish PM 'hit' by man in Copenhagen 08 Jun 2024 - 11:13 am

Copenhagen: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was "hit" on Friday by a man in a Copenhagen square, her office said, with EU chiefs...

Indonesia's first Olympic gymnast encourages others to 'dream higher' 08 Jun 2024 - 10:52 am

Jakarta: Indonesian gymnast Rifda Irfanaluthfi's palms are covered in chalk as she swings between two uneven bars during intensive training just weeks before...

LIVE UPDATES: ‘Explosions every minute’ in central Gaza 08 Jun 2024 - 09:18 am

Doha, Qatar: Israeli forces have launched air raids in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, leaving a number of killed...

Two-year-old girl in Australia tests positive for H5N1 bird flu: WHO 08 Jun 2024 - 08:52 am

Geneva: A two-and-a-half-year-old girl tested positive for H5N1 bird flu and needed hospital intensive care treatment in Australia after travelling to India, the...

Sweden splashes out to save its unluckiest warship 08 Jun 2024 - 08:37 am

Stockholm: Sweden is embarking on a colossal four-year project to safeguard a nearly 400-year-old warship that is the centrepiece of its famous Vasa...

Student killed in rare Panama campus shooting 08 Jun 2024 - 08:20 am

Panama City: A rare campus shooting in Panama left at least one person dead as two gunmen attacked a group of university students,...

Virgin Galactic set for final spaceflight before two-year pause 08 Jun 2024 - 07:59 am

Washington: Virgin Galactic is poised on Saturday for its last spaceflight before heading into a two-year pause on commercial operations to upgrade its...