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Opening ceremony lights up Paris in unique style

Opening ceremony lights up Paris in unique style

Paris [France], July 27: The 2024 Olympics opened in Paris in spectacular style with thousands of athletes sailing along the...

'Firenado' rips through California in year's biggest blaze

'Firenado' rips through California in year's biggest blaze

California [US], July 27: A rare fire tornado has ripped through bushland in northern California, as the state's largest wildfire...

More than 160,000 people join white women for Kamala Harris Zoom call

More than 160,000 people join white women for...

Washington [US], July 27: More than 160,000 people joined a Zoom call on Thursday night to build support for Democratic...

UN urges peace, respect for Olympic Truce as Paris Summer Games begin

UN urges peace, respect for Olympic Truce as...

Paris [France], July 27: As the Summer Olympics and Paralympics got underway in Paris on Friday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres...

Oregon wildfire scorches over 1,500 square kilometres

Oregon wildfire scorches over 1,500 square kilometres

Oregon [US], July 27: Winds and lightning strikes have sparked and fanned wildfires across the Pacific Northwest this week, including...

WHO to send one million polio vaccines to Gaza to protect children

WHO to send one million polio vaccines to...

Geneva [Switzerland], July 27: The UN health agency said on Friday that it is sending more than a million polio...

5 killed, 14 injured in industrial park blast in China's Henan

5 killed, 14 injured in industrial park blast...

Zhengzhou [China], July 27:An explosion at a plant on Friday evening in an industrial park of Yongcheng City in central...

For the first time in history, Olympic Games Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony takes place outside a stadium

For the first time in history, Olympic Games...

Paris [France], July 27: For the first time in the history of the Olympic Summer Games, the Opening Ceremony didn't...

Harris rises in polls as Trump labels her Marxist

Harris rises in polls as Trump labels her...

Washington D.C. [US], July 26: Vice President Kamala Harris took her presidential campaign blitz to the largest U.S. teachers' union,...

Relatives of 18 dead in Nepal plane crash demand answers

Relatives of 18 dead in Nepal plane crash...

Nepal [Kathmandu], July 26: Relatives of the 18 dead in an airplane crash in Nepal have yet to hear from...

Typhoon Gaemi barrels through Taiwan, killing two, heads to Chinese coast

Typhoon Gaemi barrels through Taiwan, killing two, heads...

Taipei [Taiwan], July 26: Typhoon Gaemi swept through northern Taiwan on Thursday, killing two people, bringing floods and snarling traffic,...

US: Kamala Harris says she "will not be silent" on Gaza suffering; tells Netanyahu to get ceasefire "deal done"

US: Kamala Harris says she "will not be...

Washington D.C. [US], July 26: US Vice President and Democratic party nominee for Presidential elections, Kamala Harris, held discussions with...

Study discerns Alzheimer's vulnerability, resilience factors

Study discerns Alzheimer's vulnerability, resilience factors

Washington D.C. [US], July 26: A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study published in Nature reveals new insights into the...

Suspects' rights land Hungary, Czech Republic and Bulgaria in EU court

Suspects' rights land Hungary, Czech Republic and Bulgaria...

Brussels [Belgium], July 26: The European Commission on Thursday announced that it is sending legal complaints to the European Court...

Ex-Islamic State fighter remains silent in German attack plan trial

Ex-Islamic State fighter remains silent in German attack...

Berlin [Germany], July 26: A former fighter for the terrorist militia Islamic State has been back in a German court...

Frankfurt Airport climate protest forces cancellation of 270 flights

Frankfurt Airport climate protest forces cancellation of 270...

Frankfurt [Germany], July 26: Germany's Frankfurt Airport faced serious disruption on Thursday, with some 270 flights cancelled out of 1,400,...

Israeli evacuation orders and attacks 'devastating Gaza's health system'

Israeli evacuation orders and attacks 'devastating Gaza's health...

Gaza [Palestine], July 26: Tens of thousands more Palestinians have been displaced again this week in Gaza after the Israeli...

Tortured and threatened: Eight Palestinian prisoners freed

Tortured and threatened: Eight Palestinian prisoners freed

Gaza [Palestine], July 26: Eight Palestinian prisoners released by the Israeli military have said they were tortured and threatened in...

Israeli military says bodies of five captives retrieved

Israeli military says bodies of five captives retrieved

Tel Aviv [Israel], July 26: The Israeli military has announced that it recovered the bodies of five captives during an...

Biden says he quit US presidential race to save democracy, unite nation

Biden says he quit US presidential race to...

Washington D.C. [US], July 26: US President Joe Biden has told Americans in a televised address that he decided to...

Seven dead and nine missing following floods and landslides in Vietnam

Seven dead and nine missing following floods and...

Hanoi [Vietnam], July 26: Landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains brought by storm Prapiroon have killed seven and left...

First of several funeral ceremonies begins for Vietnam's long-time leader Trong

First of several funeral ceremonies begins for Vietnam's...

Hanoi [Vietnam], July 26: The first of several funeral ceremonies began in Vietnam on Thursday for the long-time leader of...

Nine missing after deadly Typhoon Gaemi sinks cargo ship off Taiwan

Nine missing after deadly Typhoon Gaemi sinks cargo...

Taipei [Taiwan]/Manila [Philippines], July 26: A cargo ship has sunk in Taiwan after Typhoon Gaemi passed over the island...

Death toll from landslides in Ethiopia has risen to 257, says United Nations office

Death toll from landslides in Ethiopia has risen...

Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], July 26: The number of deaths following several landslides in south-western Ethiopia has risen to at least...

German officials uncover massive drugs lab near Dutch border

German officials uncover massive drugs lab near Dutch...

Berlin [Germany], July 26: German customs officials have uncovered a drugs laboratory near the Dutch border and seized almost 200...

Ukraine says it foiled Russian arson plans in Poland, Baltic states

Ukraine says it foiled Russian arson plans in...

Kiev [Ukraine], July 26: The Ukrainian secret service on Thursday said it has foiled planned Russian arson attacks on shopping...

Dozens feared dead after boat carrying 45 migrants capsizes off Yemen

Dozens feared dead after boat carrying 45 migrants...

Cairo [Egypt], July 26: Only four survivors have been found after a boat carrying 45 refugees and migrants capsized off...