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5 people wounded in U.S. Seattle shooting
Washington [US], July 30: Five people were wounded in a late Friday shooting in Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, in the...
Plane crash in Canadian Rocky Mountains kills 6
Ottawa [Canada], July 30: A small plane crashed in the Rocky Mountains west of Calgary, Canada on Friday night, killing...
Fourth firefighter dies battling record wildfires this year...
Ottawa [Canada], July 30: A firefighter battling the wildfire in British Columbia, Canada, has been confirmed dead, the fourth such...
Bangladesh police clash with opposition protestors demanding PM's...
Dhaka [Bangladesh], July 30: Police in Bangladesh capital Dhaka Saturday fought with opposition protestors with teargas and rubber bullets.
Myanmar's border trade surges 37.83 pct year-on-year in...
Yangon [Myanmar], July 30: Myanmar's border trade surged 37.83 percent year-on-year to over 2.75 billion U.S. dollars during the first...
Blinken defends prosecution of Assange
Washington [US], July 30: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday defended his country's ongoing efforts to prosecute Wikileaks...
Zelensky visits Bakhmut front line; more fighting seen...
Kyiv [Ukraine], July 30: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he has visited the front line near Bakhmut in the east...
Hezbollah leader calls for punishment for those who...
Beirut [Lebanon], July 30: The leader of Hezbollah's armed forces in Lebanon called on Muslims to punish those who blaspheme...
President Putin: Russia does not want but is...
Moscow [Russia], July 30: President Vladimir Putin stressed that Russia does not want to cause a conflict, but if it...
Singapore Prime Minister's brother challenged after being threatened...
Singapore, July 30: Mr. Lee Hsien Loong, younger brother of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, said that the two...
Colombian President Petro's son arrested
New York [US], July 30: Nicolas Petro, son of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, has been arrested as part of an...
Saudi Arabia summons Danish envoy over Quran desecration
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], July 29: The Saudi Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that it summoned the Danish charge d'affaires over...
Yemen welcomes new Saudi aid for Safer tanker...
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], July 29: The Yemeni government has expressed gratitude to Saudi Arabia for its additional 8-million-U.S. dollar assistance...
Lower energy and food prices drive inflation down...
Paris [France], July 29: The year-on-year consumer price index (CPI) in France was 4.3 percent in July, thus continuing a...
German economy stagnates after short recession
Berlin [Germany], July 29: After two quarters of economic contraction, Germany's gross domestic product stagnated in the second quarter of...
WHO urges action to eliminate viral hepatitis
Copenhagen [Denmark], July 29: The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe highlighted the urgent need on Friday to...
France's GDP up by 0.5 pct in Q2:...
Paris [France], July 29: France's gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.5 percent in volume terms in the second quarter...
Wildfires, extreme weather grip Italy
Rome [Italy], July 29: Wildfires raging in Southern Italy began to spread North on Friday as the country remained in...
Ireland's GDP up by 3 pct in Q2:...
Dublin [Ireland], July 29: The gross domestic product (GDP) of Ireland increased by nearly 3 percent in the second quarter...
Canada's wildfires release 1 blntonnes of CO2 equivalent,...
Beijing [China], July 29: As record-breaking wildfires in Canada are devouring lands, threatening human health, and shrinking wildlife habitats,...
U.S. stocks close higher after encouraging inflation data
New York [US], July 29: U.S. stocks ended higher on Friday after fresh inflation data closely watched by the Federal...
Number of active U.S. drilling rigs down this...
Houston [US], July 29: The number of active drilling rigs in the United States dropped to 664 this week, down...
U.S. agencies lack coordination regarding drug cartels, says...
Mexico City [Mexico], July 29: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday criticized U.S. agencies for lacking coordination regarding...
California's beverage container recycling program loopholed by fraudsters
Sacramento [US], July 29: California's beverage container recycling program has been constantly taken advantage of by scammers who have...
4 military personnel missing after Australian helicopter crashes
Sydney [Australia], July 29: Four military personnel are missing after an Australian military helicopter crashed into the waters near Lindeman...
Japan's average life expectancy falls for 2nd straight...
Tokyo [Japan], July 29: The average life expectancy fell for both Japanese men and women for the second consecutive year...
Cambodia's old-term political officials to be reappointed: PM
Phnom Pehn [Cambodia], July 29: Cambodian Prime Minister SamdechTecho Hun Sen said on Saturday that all political officials in the...