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Trump cuts target next generation of scientists, public health leaders: report

Trump cuts target next generation of scientists, public...

Albany [New York], February 19: U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to shrink the size of the federal work force dealt...

Russia says NATO states can't enforce Ukraine peace

Russia says NATO states can't enforce Ukraine peace

Moscow [Russia], February 19: Russia on Tuesday demanded NATO scrap its 2008 promise to one day give Ukraine membership of...

Russia agree to restore diplomatic missions

Russia agree to restore diplomatic missions

Moscow [Russia], February 19: The U.S. and Russia agreed on Tuesday to restore the normal functioning of each other's diplomatic...

Holocaust survivor Marian Turski dies aged 98

Holocaust survivor Marian Turski dies aged 98

Warsaw [Poland], February 19: Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, who became a journalist in Poland and headed an international committee of...

Office overseeing Afghan resettlement in US told to start planning closure

Office overseeing Afghan resettlement in US told to...

Kabul [Afghanistan], February 19: The State Department office overseeing the resettlement of Afghans in the United States has been told...

Trump says he may meet Putin this month

Trump says he may meet Putin this month

Washington DC [US], February 19: U.S. President Donald Trump said he might meet Russian President Vladimir Putin this month and...

Four German Chancellor candidates debate fiercely

Four German Chancellor candidates debate fiercely

Berlin [Germany], February 18: According to international media, the debate began with the topic of immigration and then quickly heated...

Taiwan's Armed UAV Ambitions

Taiwan's Armed UAV Ambitions

Taipei City [Taiwan], February 18: Recently, Nikkei Asia published an article noting the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) development programs that...

US President Trump unveils trade policy with reciprocal tariffs for fairness

US President Trump unveils trade policy with reciprocal...

Washington [US], February 18: US President Donald Trump outlined a new trade policy focused on fairness and reciprocity and said...

290 humanitarian aid trucks enter Gaza Strip

290 humanitarian aid trucks enter Gaza Strip

Cairo [Egypt], February 18: The total number of humanitarian aid and relief trucks that entered the Gaza Strip on Monday...

Meta's sub-sea globe-spanning internet cable

Meta's sub-sea globe-spanning internet cable

New York [US], February 18: Meta has announced plans to build a 50,000km (31,000 mile) sub-sea cable across the world.

Delta plane flips on landing at Toronto airport, injuring 8

Delta plane flips on landing at Toronto airport,...

Toronto [Canada], February 18: Eight people were injured when a plane carrying 80 passengers flipped as it landed at Toronto...

Freed hostages bring signs of life from depths of Gaza tunnels

Freed hostages bring signs of life from depths...

Gaza [Palestine], February 18: Families of some Israeli hostages in Gaza have received signs of life from their loved ones...

Hamas operations leader killed in Lebanon

Hamas operations leader killed in Lebanon

Beirut [Lebanon] / Tel Aviv [Israel], February 18: The Israeli military has killed the head of Hamas' operations department in...

Russia, US officials meet in Saudi Arabia for Ukraine talks

Russia, US officials meet in Saudi Arabia for...

Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], February 18: The United States and Russia have confirmed that their top delegates will meet in Saudi...

Israel plans 1,000-unit expansion for occupied West Bank settlement

Israel plans 1,000-unit expansion for occupied West Bank...

Jerusalem [Israel], February 18: Israel has issued a tender for the construction of nearly 1,000 additional settler homes in the...

At least nine dead in US floods, including child

At least nine dead in US floods, including...

Washington [US], February 18: At least nine people, including a child, died over the weekend amid severe flooding triggered by...

Russian drones cause damage near Kiev

Russian drones cause damage near Kiev

Moscow [Russia], February 18: Russia attacked Ukraine again with a large swarm of drones overnight in the Kiev region, after...

Swedish court convicts four men over Islamic State involvement

Swedish court convicts four men over Islamic State...

Stockholm [Sweden], February 18: Four men have been convicted in Sweden for their involvement in a Somali branch of the...

Paris hosts emergency summit on Ukraine war as Trump sparks alarm

Paris hosts emergency summit on Ukraine war as...

Paris [France], February 18: European leaders were gathering on Monday for an emergency summit to discuss plans by US President...

UN judge deceived woman to work as slave while studying, court told

UN judge deceived woman to work as slave...

London [UK], February 18: A United Nations criminal tribunal judge deceived a young woman into coming to the UK to...

Kremlin welcomes special Paris summit

Kremlin welcomes special Paris summit

Moscow [Russia], February 18: Russia has welcomed the emergency summit on the Ukraine war organized by French President Emmanuel Macron...

UK's Starmer to meet Trump in Washington next week

UK's Starmer to meet Trump in Washington next...

London [UK], February 18: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet US President Donald Trump next week, Starmer's office in...

Far from satisfied, near concerned

Far from satisfied, near concerned

Hawaii [US], February 17: The archipelago lies between the US state of Hawaii and New Zealand. China's close ties with...

Israel receives shipment of heavy bombs cleared by Trump

Israel receives shipment of heavy bombs cleared by...

Jerusalem [Israel], February 17: Israel has received a shipment of heavy MK-84 bombs from the United States, after U.S. President...

Five Iraqi banks to be banned from US dollar transactions

Five Iraqi banks to be banned from US...

Tehran [Iraq], February 17: Iraq's central bank will ban five more local banks from engaging in U.S. dollar transactions, a...

Trump says he could meet with Putin 'very soon' on Ukraine

Trump says he could meet with Putin 'very...

New York [US], February 17: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he believes he could meet "very soon" with...