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Hamas agrees to Gaza ceasefire proposal

Hamas agrees to Gaza ceasefire proposal

Gaza [Palestine], March 30: Hamas has agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal it received two days ago from mediators Egypt...

Syria's president forms new transitional government

Syria's president forms new transitional government

Damascus [Syria], March 30: Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced a transitional government on Saturday, a key milestone in the transition...

American woman detained in Afghanistan released

American woman detained in Afghanistan released

Kabul [Afghanistan], March 30: An American woman who had been detained in Afghanistan by the Taliban since February has been...

Huge Istanbul protests over Imamoglu's arrest, imprisonment in Turkiye

Huge Istanbul protests over Imamoglu's arrest, imprisonment in...

Ankara [Turkiye], March 30: Hundreds of thousands of protesters in Turkiye's Istanbul have taken to the streets again, rallying against...

Hundreds of Muslim worshippers feared dead, mosques destroyed

Hundreds of Muslim worshippers feared dead, mosques destroyed

Naypyidaw [Myanmar], March 30: Hundreds of Muslim worshippers are feared to be among the more than 1,600 people who died...

Hamas ready to release more hostages during 50-day ceasefire

Hamas ready to release more hostages during 50-day...

Gaza [Palestine] / Tel Aviv [Israel], March 30: The Palestinian Hamas says it is prepared to release five hostages still...

Trump-wary Austrian chancellor elected as ÖVP leader

Trump-wary Austrian chancellor elected as ÖVP leader

Vienna [Austria], March 30: The conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) gave a landslide endorsement to Chancellor Christian Stocker as party...

Skygazers in some parts of world marvel at partial solar eclipse

Skygazers in some parts of world marvel at...

New York [US], March 30: Skygazers in some parts of the world have been enthralled catching the Moon passing between...

Thailand buildings built before 2007 not earthquake-proof

Thailand buildings built before 2007 not earthquake-proof

Bangkok [Thailand], March 30: A structural engineering expert has told the BBC that fewer than 10% of buildings in Bangkok...

Myanmar quake toll passes 1,600

Myanmar quake toll passes 1,600

Bangkok [Thailand], March 30: Myanmar's military rulers let in hundreds of foreign rescue personnel on Saturday after an earthquake killed...

Moscow accuses Kiev of stepping up attacks on energy facilities

Moscow accuses Kiev of stepping up attacks on...

Moscow [Russia], March 30: Russia on Saturday accused Ukraine of intensifying its attacks on energy facilities in violation of a...

Danish minister hits back at 'tone' of US Vice President JD Vance's Greenland criticism

Danish minister hits back at 'tone' of US...

Copenhagen [Denmark], March 30: Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen on Saturday responded to criticism of Copenhagen's policy on Greenland...

Corsican mafia boss shot and killed in Bastia

Corsican mafia boss shot and killed in Bastia

Paris [France], March 30: A notorious Corsican mafia boss was shot dead on his doorstep in Bastia on Saturday morning.

South Korea battles worst ever wildfires as death toll hits 28

South Korea battles worst ever wildfires as death...

Seoul [South Korea], March 29: Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size on Thursday from a day earlier, as...

Germany 'will not give in' to Trump car tariffs

Germany 'will not give in' to Trump car...

Berlin [Germany], March 29: Germany has said it "will not give in" and that Europe must "respond firmly" as US...

Record 28 million people face acute hunger in conflict-ravaged Congo

Record 28 million people face acute hunger in...

Kinshasa [Democratic Republic of Congo], March 29: Twenty-eight million people face acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a...

South Koreans mourn historic temple burnt by wildfire, race to save others

South Koreans mourn historic temple burnt by wildfire,...

Seoul [South Korea], March 29: Charred, black ruins at South Korea's Gounsa temple stood on Thursday in stark contrast to...

Six Russians dead, 39 tourists rescued after submarine sinks in Red Sea off Egypt

Six Russians dead, 39 tourists rescued after submarine...

Moscow [Russia], March 29: Six Russians died on Thursday and 39 foreign tourists were rescued when a viewing submarine sank...

US pushes for streamlining, tension over leak case not over

US pushes for streamlining, tension over leak case...

Washington [US], March 29: CNN on March 28 quoted the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as saying...

Billionaire Elon Musk 'buys' social network X again

Billionaire Elon Musk 'buys' social network X again

New York [US], March 29: Billionaire Elon Musk announced that he has sold his social networking company X to his...

Ukrainian President sets conditions for signing mineral deal with US

Ukrainian President sets conditions for signing mineral deal...

Kyiv [Ukraine], March 29: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the country would not accept any mineral exploitation deals that threatened...

Kennedy to slash 10,000 jobs in major overhaul of US health agencies

Kennedy to slash 10,000 jobs in major overhaul...

New York [US], March 29: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to reshape...

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh fear aid cuts will deepen crisis

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh fear aid cuts will...

Dhaka [Bangladesh], March 29: Majuna Khatun sat cradling her six-month-old baby at a rehabilitation centre for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh,...

Swedish journalist jailed in Turkey on terrorism

Swedish journalist jailed in Turkey on terrorism

Ankara [Turkey], March 29: Swedish journalist Kaj Joakim Medin, who was in Turkey to cover protests against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem...

Maduro urges UN to back release of migrants

Maduro urges UN to back release of migrants

Caracas [Venezuela], March 29: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro this week spoke to the United Nations' Secretary General Antonio Guterres and...

Remaining USAID staff fired

Remaining USAID staff fired

New York [US], March 29: President Donald Trump's administration told Congress on Friday it would cut nearly all remaining jobs...

Vance accuses Denmark of not keeping Greenland safe from Russia, China

Vance accuses Denmark of not keeping Greenland safe...

New York [US], March 29: U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Friday accused Denmark of not doing a good job...