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Italy investigates manslaughter after yacht sinking kills British billionaire

Italy investigates manslaughter after yacht sinking kills British...

London [UK], August 25: Chief prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio said investigators had found that the cause of the sinking was not...

Hezbollah is about to launch a massive attack, Israel launches a preemptive strike in Lebanon

Hezbollah is about to launch a massive attack,...

Gaza [Palestine], August 25: The Israeli military said on August 25 that it had launched preemptive strikes in Lebanon after...

US warns Houthi-attacked ship could spill 'millions of barrels' of oil

US warns Houthi-attacked ship could spill 'millions of...

Washington [US], August 25: The US State Department on August 24 warned of the risk of an environmental disaster in...

Trump 'riding a lion' to campaign

Trump 'riding a lion' to campaign

Washington [US], August 25: The Independent newspaper reported on August 25 that former US President Donald Trump shared on the...

Hezbollah begins retaliatory attacks, Israel declares emergency

Hezbollah begins retaliatory attacks, Israel declares emergency

Jerusalem [Israel], August 25: Hezbollah has just announced the start of a large-scale attack on Israel in response...

Canada rail shutdown: Union challenges government move

Canada rail shutdown: Union challenges government move

Ottawa [Canada], August 25: The union representing over 9,000 Canadian rail workers vowed on Friday to challenge the federal government's...

Floods, landslides in India's Tripura displace tens of thousands

Floods, landslides in India's Tripura displace tens of...

Tripura (Assam) [India], August 25: Soldiers in lifeboats ferried people to safety in India's northeastern state of Tripura after heavy...

Three stab victims after car crash in southern Sydney

Three stab victims after car crash in southern...

Sydney [Australia], August 25: A police officer and two people have been stabbed at the scene of a two-car crash...

Germany attack: Police arrest suspected knifeman

Germany attack: Police arrest suspected knifeman

Berlin [Germany], August 25: German police have arrested a man suspected of killing three people and injuring another eight in...

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport

Paris [France], August 25: Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov has been arrested by French police at an airport north of...

Wildfires affecting 30 cities in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, leave 2 dead

Wildfires affecting 30 cities in Brazil's Sao Paulo...

Brasilia [Brazil], August 25: Brazil's Sao Paulo state said that wildfire outbreaks were affecting or closing in on 30 of...

Zelenskiy touts new 'drone missile', calls Putin 'sick old man'

Zelenskiy touts new 'drone missile', calls Putin 'sick...

Kyiv [Ukraine], August 25: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy touted a newly developed Ukrainian "drone missile" on Saturday that he said would...

Uganda confirms two more cases of mpox

Uganda confirms two more cases of mpox

Kampala [Uganda], August 25: Uganda has confirmed two more mpox virus infections, bringing the number of cases in the east...

Sharjah Charity International disbursed AED84.3M in UAE in H1-24

Sharjah Charity International disbursed AED84.3M in UAE in...

Sharjah [UAE], August 25: The Sharjah Charity International (SCI) spent AED84.3 million on aid programmes within the country during the...

Madeira's wildfire finally under control

Madeira's wildfire finally under control

Lisbon [Portugal], August 25: The fire that raged on several fronts in Madeira for 11 days is finally under control...

King Salman International Complex, UNA to hold symposium on promoting Arabic content

King Salman International Complex, UNA to hold symposium...

Jeddah [Saudi Arabia], August 25: The King Salman International Academy for the Arabic Language and the Union of News Agencies...

NASA decides to keep 2 stranded astronauts in space until February

NASA decides to keep 2 stranded astronauts in...

Washington [US], August 25: Two NASA astronauts who flew to the International Space Station in June aboard Boeing's (BA.N), opens...

Kuwait welcomes ALPS joint statement after Sudan talks in Geneva

Kuwait welcomes ALPS joint statement after Sudan talks...

Kuwait City [Kuwait], August 25: Kuwait welcomed Saturday the joint statement issued by the Aligned for Advancing Lifesaving and Peace...

Turkish lira hits record low against USD

Turkish lira hits record low against USD

Istanbul [Turkey], August 24: The Turkish lira plummeted to a historic low against the U.S. dollar on Friday, with the...

Mexican president dismisses criticism of proposed judicial reforms

Mexican president dismisses criticism of proposed judicial reforms

Mexico City [Mexico], August 24: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday dismissed criticism by some global financial firms...

Egyptian, U.S. presidents discuss Gaza ceasefire talks

Egyptian, U.S. presidents discuss Gaza ceasefire talks

Cairo [Egypt], August 24: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and U.S. President Joe Biden discussed the Gaza ceasefire negotiations on Friday...

Yemeni gov't says intercepts Houthi drones targeting oil facility

Yemeni gov't says intercepts Houthi drones targeting oil...

Aden [Yemen], August 24: The Yemeni army intercepted three Houthi drones carrying explosives targeting the Safer oil facility in Marib...

Deadly fire at South Korea battery maker due to quality failure

Deadly fire at South Korea battery maker due...

Seoul [South Korea], August 24: A fire at a South Korean lithium battery maker in June that killed 23 people...

Indonesia court finds drugmakers at fault over toxic cough syrup, awards parents

Indonesia court finds drugmakers at fault over toxic...

Jakarta [Indonesia], August 24: An Indonesian court ordered two local companies to pay up to 60 million rupiah ($3,850) to...

Gabon records first mpox case

Gabon records first mpox case

Libreville [Gabon], August 24: Gabon has registered its first case of mpox, the health ministry said in a statement that...

UN expresses concern over increasing tensions, armed mobilisation in Tripoli

UN expresses concern over increasing tensions, armed mobilisation...

Tripoli [Libya], August 24: The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) expressed grave concerns about reports of mobilisation of...

WHO warns of new wave of cholera epidemic in Sudan

WHO warns of new wave of cholera epidemic...

Geneva [Switzerland], August 24: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of the consequences of a new wave of cholera...