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Iran slams U.S. plan to resume nuclear tests as "serious threat"

Iran slams U.S. plan to resume nuclear tests...

Tehran [Iran], November 1: Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Thursday condemned the United States' plan to resume nuclear...

Iraq launches nationwide solar plan to ease chronic power shortages

Iraq launches nationwide solar plan to ease chronic...

Baghdad [Iraq], November 1: Iraq's Electricity Minister Ziyad Ali Fadel on Friday announced a national plan to roll out large-scale...

1 killed in Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon

1 killed in Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon

Beirut [Lebanon], November 1: An Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon on Friday killed one person and wounded another, Lebanon's state-run...

Hezbollah leader accuses U.S. of fueling "Israeli aggression" in Lebanon

Hezbollah leader accuses U.S. of fueling "Israeli aggression"...

Beirut [Lebanon], November 1: Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem on Friday accused the United States of fueling "Israeli aggression" in Lebanon,...

Turkish court sentences 11 to life imprisonment for deadly hotel fire

Turkish court sentences 11 to life imprisonment for...

Istanbul [Turkey], November 1: A Turkish court on Friday sentenced 11 people to life imprisonment for a deadly hotel fire...

Legal experts discuss int'l criminal law in Belgrade

Legal experts discuss int'l criminal law in Belgrade

Belgrade [Serbia], November 1: The first Belgrade World Scientific Conference gathered legal experts from more than 50 countries to discuss...

UK health agency warns of rising meningitis threat among young people

UK health agency warns of rising meningitis threat...

London [UK], November 1: Children and young adults, particularly university students, face an increased risk of meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia,...

Minsk film festival Listapad opens in Belarus

Minsk film festival Listapad opens in Belarus

Minsk [Belarus], November 1: The 31st Minsk International Film Festival "Listapad" kicked off at Belarus' Palace of the Republic on...

D66 wins Dutch election, Rob Jetten poised to lead coalition talks

D66 wins Dutch election, Rob Jetten poised to...

Washington [US], November 1: The Democrats 66 (D66) party has won the Dutch parliamentary election, the ANP election service announced...

Russia expands entry ban list after new EU sanctions

Russia expands entry ban list after new EU...

Moscow [Russia], November 1: Russia has imposed more extensive entry bans on representatives from European institutions and countries in response...

Vietnam flood death toll rises to 13, with 11 others missing

Vietnam flood death toll rises to 13, with...

Hanoi [Vietnam], November 1: The death toll from the heavy floods in central Vietnam has risen to 13, with 11...

Trump says he is not considering strikes within Venezuela

Trump says he is not considering strikes within...

Washington [US], November 1: President Donald Trump on Friday denied he was considering strikes inside Venezuela, appearing to contradict his...

A narrow Pacific waterway is at the heart of U.S. plans to choke China's vast navy

A narrow Pacific waterway is at the heart...

New York [US], November 1: The U.S. has deployed troops and anti-ship missiles into the northern Philippines as part of...

UAE participates in ministerial meeting of G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group

UAE participates in ministerial meeting of G20 Anti-Corruption...

Mpumalanga [South Korea], November 1: A delegation from the UAE Accountability Authority (UAEAA), headed by Humaid Obaid Khalifa Obaid...

Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa announces evolution of UICCA to 'Frontier25' at Ideas to Impact Forum

Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa announces evolution of...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], November 1: H.H. Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, President & CEO of Frontier25 and...

Five more suspects arrested in Paris over Louvre jewel theft, says prosecutor

Five more suspects arrested in Paris over Louvre...

Paris [France], October 31: Five more arrests have been made over the brazen heist at the Louvre in Paris, prosecutor...

Trump says US to resume nuclear weapons tests, backs South Korean nuclear sub

Trump says US to resume nuclear weapons tests,...

Busan [South Korea], October 31: United States President Donald Trump says he has ordered the Department of Defense to "immediately"...

US says it killed four people in latest strike on alleged drug vessel

US says it killed four people in latest...

Washington [US], October 31: The White House said United States forces bombed another alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific...

Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba take stock after hurricane destruction

Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba take stock after hurricane destruction

New York [USA], October 31: People across the northern Caribbean are reeling from the devastation of Hurricane Melissa as dozens...

Netherlands' centrist party wins big in election as far right loses support

Netherlands' centrist party wins big in election as...

Amsterdam [Netherland], October 31: The centre-left D66 party has made huge gains in the Netherlands' general election, with it likely...

Erdogan urges Germany to help end Israel's 'genocide' in Gaza

Erdogan urges Germany to help end Israel's 'genocide'...

Ankara [Turkey], October 31: Turkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticised Germany over what he called its ignorance of Israel's...

Hamas hands over bodies of two Israeli hostages

Hamas hands over bodies of two Israeli hostages

Gaza [Palestine], October 31: Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over two bodies it said were of deceased Israeli hostages on...

UN to vote on backing Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara

UN to vote on backing Morocco's autonomy plan...

Geneva [Switzerland], October 31: The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Friday on a resolution stating that...

Trump orders immediate resumption of U.S. nuclear weapons testing

Trump orders immediate resumption of U.S. nuclear weapons...

Washington [US], October 31: President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after...

Hurricane Melissa kills 29 in Caribbean, heads toward Bermuda

Hurricane Melissa kills 29 in Caribbean, heads toward...

Washington [US], October 31: Hurricane Melissa tore through the northern Caribbean and was seen picking up speed as it churned...

King Charles strips brother Andrew of titles and his mansion

King Charles strips brother Andrew of titles and...

London [UK], October 31: Britain's King Charles has stripped his younger brother Andrew of his title of prince and forced...

FAA delaying flights at Dallas, DC airports over air traffic staffing

FAA delaying flights at Dallas, DC airports over...

New York [US], October 31: The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is delaying flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and...