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Four German Chancellor candidates debate fiercely
Berlin [Germany], February 18: According to international media, the debate began with the topic of immigration and then quickly heated...

Taiwan's Armed UAV Ambitions
Taipei City [Taiwan], February 18: Recently, Nikkei Asia published an article noting the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) development programs that...

US President Trump unveils trade policy with reciprocal...
Washington [US], February 18: US President Donald Trump outlined a new trade policy focused on fairness and reciprocity and said...

290 humanitarian aid trucks enter Gaza Strip
Cairo [Egypt], February 18: The total number of humanitarian aid and relief trucks that entered the Gaza Strip on Monday...

Meta's sub-sea globe-spanning internet cable
New York [US], February 18: Meta has announced plans to build a 50,000km (31,000 mile) sub-sea cable across the world.

Delta plane flips on landing at Toronto airport,...
Toronto [Canada], February 18: Eight people were injured when a plane carrying 80 passengers flipped as it landed at Toronto...

Freed hostages bring signs of life from depths...
Gaza [Palestine], February 18: Families of some Israeli hostages in Gaza have received signs of life from their loved ones...

Hamas operations leader killed in Lebanon
Beirut [Lebanon] / Tel Aviv [Israel], February 18: The Israeli military has killed the head of Hamas' operations department in...

Russia, US officials meet in Saudi Arabia for...
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], February 18: The United States and Russia have confirmed that their top delegates will meet in Saudi...

Israel plans 1,000-unit expansion for occupied West Bank...
Jerusalem [Israel], February 18: Israel has issued a tender for the construction of nearly 1,000 additional settler homes in the...

At least nine dead in US floods, including...
Washington [US], February 18: At least nine people, including a child, died over the weekend amid severe flooding triggered by...

Russian drones cause damage near Kiev
Moscow [Russia], February 18: Russia attacked Ukraine again with a large swarm of drones overnight in the Kiev region, after...

Swedish court convicts four men over Islamic State...
Stockholm [Sweden], February 18: Four men have been convicted in Sweden for their involvement in a Somali branch of the...

Paris hosts emergency summit on Ukraine war as...
Paris [France], February 18: European leaders were gathering on Monday for an emergency summit to discuss plans by US President...

UN judge deceived woman to work as slave...
London [UK], February 18: A United Nations criminal tribunal judge deceived a young woman into coming to the UK to...

Kremlin welcomes special Paris summit
Moscow [Russia], February 18: Russia has welcomed the emergency summit on the Ukraine war organized by French President Emmanuel Macron...

UK's Starmer to meet Trump in Washington next...
London [UK], February 18: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet US President Donald Trump next week, Starmer's office in...

Far from satisfied, near concerned
Hawaii [US], February 17: The archipelago lies between the US state of Hawaii and New Zealand. China's close ties with...

Israel receives shipment of heavy bombs cleared by...
Jerusalem [Israel], February 17: Israel has received a shipment of heavy MK-84 bombs from the United States, after U.S. President...

Five Iraqi banks to be banned from US...
Tehran [Iraq], February 17: Iraq's central bank will ban five more local banks from engaging in U.S. dollar transactions, a...

Trump says he could meet with Putin 'very...
New York [US], February 17: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he believes he could meet "very soon" with...

US energy department says less than 50 purged...
New York [US], February 17: U.S. President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk purged less than 50 workers from...

Austria says stabbing attack suspect swore allegiance to...
Vienna [Austria], February 17: The Syrian asylum seeker suspected of carrying out a deadly stabbing rampage in the Austrian town...

Egypt, Jordan emphasise necessity of starting reconstruction of...
Cairo [Egypt], February 17: Egypt and Jordan emphasised the necessity of immediately starting the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, without...

UN chief welcomes continued Gaza ceasefire, hostage release
New York [US], February 17: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has welcomed the latest round of hostage releases in Gaza and...

US: At least 9 people dead in Kentucky,...
Kentucky [US], February 17: At least eight people have died after a powerful storm swept through Kentucky, resulting in flooding...

Washington, Moscow will now focus on peace, not...
Moscow [Russia], February 17: Moscow and Washington will from now on focus on peace, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in...