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Romania's ruling coalition agrees to hold presidential election on May 4

Romania's ruling coalition agrees to hold presidential election...

Bucharest [Romania], January 9: Romania's ruling coalition has agreed to have the first round of the presidential elections on May...

Wildfires rage out of control near Los Angeles, killing at least two

Wildfires rage out of control near Los Angeles,...

Los Angeles [California], January 9: At least two people were killed as a trio of fast-growing wildfires raged out of...

Urgency mounts in search for survivors of powerful Tibet earthquake

Urgency mounts in search for survivors of powerful...

Lhasa [Tibet], January 9: More than 400 people trapped by rubble in earthquake-stricken Tibet have been rescued.

Russian strike kills 13 in Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia

Russian strike kills 13 in Ukrainian city of...

Moscow [Russia], January 9: A Russian guided bomb attack killed at least 13 people and injured 29 others in Ukraine's...

Italian journalist Sala freed from Iran prison, returns home

Italian journalist Sala freed from Iran prison, returns...

Rome [Italy], January 9: Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was freed by Iran and returned home, three weeks after she was...

WHO says respiratory virus HMPV in China is 'common,' not a threat

WHO says respiratory virus HMPV in China is...

Geneva [Switzerland], January 8: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday offered reassurance about HMPV, a respiratory infection that is...

Bangladesh revokes passport of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina

Bangladesh revokes passport of ousted prime minister Sheikh...

Dhaka [Bangladesh], January 8: Bangladesh's interim administration has revoked the passport of its ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and 74...

US authorities seek to identify bodies found in JetBlue wheel well

US authorities seek to identify bodies found in...

Florida [US], January 8: Authorities in the United States have been working to identify two bodies discovered in the wheel...

Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers

Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers

New York [US], January 8: Meta is abandoning the use of independent fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram, replacing them...

German couple confess to killing Ukrainian refugee and her mother to steal baby

German couple confess to killing Ukrainian refugee and...

Mannheim [Germany], January 8: A German couple on Tuesday confessed to killing a Ukrainian refugee and her mother in March...

Thai elephant centres criticized after death of tourist

Thai elephant centres criticized after death of tourist

Bangkok [Thailand], January 8: Animal rights activists on Tuesday lashed out at elephant sanctuaries in Thailand after a Spanish holidaymaker...

Airport in Damascus resumes international operations

Airport in Damascus resumes international operations

Damascus [Syria], January 8: Syria's main airport in Damascus resumed full operations on Tuesday after they were halted following the...

Iran starts air defence drills at Natanz nuclear facility

Iran starts air defence drills at Natanz nuclear...

Tehran [Iran], January 8: Amid rising tensions with Israel and with less than two weeks left before the inauguration of...

US transfers 11 Yemeni inmates from Guantanamo Bay prison to Oman

US transfers 11 Yemeni inmates from Guantanamo Bay...

Washington [US], January 8: The United States has sent 11 Yemeni detainees of the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison to Oman,...

Aid efforts in Gaza at breaking point: UN

Aid efforts in Gaza at breaking point: UN

Gaza [Palestine], January 8: The efforts of United Nations agencies to supply humanitarian aid in Gaza are at "breaking point",...

Hungarian officials criticize U.S. sanctions on gov't minister

Hungarian officials criticize U.S. sanctions on gov't minister

Budapest [Hungary], January 8: Hungary's foreign minister criticized the outgoing U.S. administration and its ambassador on Tuesday for imposing sanctions...

Two killed, one injured in shooting in Germany

Two killed, one injured in shooting in Germany

Berlin [Germany], January 8: Two men were shot dead and one got injured on Tuesday evening at a company in...

Slovenia's 2024 budget deficit lowest in 5 yrs

Slovenia's 2024 budget deficit lowest in 5 yrs

Ljubljana [Slovenia], January 8: Slovenia's budget deficit fell to 1.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024, according to...

News Analysis: Experts expect gradual ECB rate cuts despite rising eurozone inflation

News Analysis: Experts expect gradual ECB rate cuts...

Brussels [Belgium], January 8: Eurozone inflation, as Eurostat reported, hit 2.4 percent in December, the highest since July, but experts...

Earthquake in Tibet kills more than 120

Earthquake in Tibet kills more than 120

Lhasa [Tibet], January 8: A strong earthquake, opens new tab struck the foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's...

US, Taliban in talks to swap detainees

US, Taliban in talks to swap detainees

Washington DC [US], January 8: The Biden administration is negotiating with Afghanistan to exchange Americans detained in the country for...

Ghana's Mahama returns as president, vowing to boost economy

Ghana's Mahama returns as president, vowing to boost...

Accra [Ghana], January 8: John Dramani Mahama was sworn in for a second term as Ghana's president at a ceremony...

Austrian far right demands conservatives be 'honest' in coalition talks

Austrian far right demands conservatives be 'honest' in...

Vienna [Austria], January 8: Austrian far-right Freedom Party (FPO) leader Herbert Kickl called on the conservative People's Party (OVP) to...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's post-war far right, dies aged 96

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's post-war far...

Paris [France], January 8: Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front party who tapped into blue-collar anger...

Trump will not rule out force to take Panama Canal, Greenland

Trump will not rule out force to take...

Nuuk [Greenland], January 8: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump refused on Tuesday to rule out using military or economic action to...

Egypt discovers 4,000-year-old tomb near Cairo

Egypt discovers 4,000-year-old tomb near Cairo

Cairo [Egypt], January 7: A joint French-Swiss archaeological mission has discovered an over 4,000-year-old mastaba at the Saqqara archaeological site,...

US Congress ratifies Trump's victory

US Congress ratifies Trump's victory

New York [US], January 7: As President of the US Senate, US Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost to Mr....