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Cambodia, Thailand sign 11 agreements at extraordinary meeting
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], August 28: The extraordinary meeting of the Cambodia-Thailand Regional Border Committee (RBC) ended with an 11-point joint...

E3 states threaten sanctions on Tehran as IAEA...
Vienna [Austria], August 28: Germany, France and Britain could reintroduce UN sanctions on Iran as soon as Thursday if Tehran...

More Palestinians flee Israel's fierce bombing of Gaza...
Gaza [Palestine], August 28: More Palestinian families are fleeing as the Israeli military pushes deeper into Gaza City, destroying entire...

German, French and Polish leaders show support for...
Berlin [Germany], August 28: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk visited Moldova...

South Korea bans mobile phones and smart devices...
Seoul [South Korea], August 28: South Korea has passed a bill banning the use of mobile phones and smart devices...

Passenger bus crash in Afghan capital kills 25,...
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 28: At least 25 people have died in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, after a passenger bus veered off...

Denmark summons US envoy over Greenland influence reports
Copenhagen [Denmark], August 28: Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen on Wednesday said he had summoned the senior US diplomat...

Asia's largest dredgers take to water in China
Shanghai [China], August 28: China successfully launched the Tong Jun and Jun Guang - Asia's largest trailing suction hopper dredgers,...

SpaceX launches 10th Starship rocket test flight successfully
New York [US], August 28: SpaceX announced on Tuesday the successful completion of the tenth test flight of its Starship...

6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes off eastern Russia
Moscow [Russia], August 28: An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale struck off the eastern coast of Russia's Kamchatka...

Thirty-four soldiers kidnapped in Colombia
Buenos Aires [Argentina], August 28: Thirty-four soldiers have been kidnapped in southern Colombia following fighting between government forces and a...

Typhoon Kajiki claims several lives, causes damage in...
Hanoi [Vietnam], August 28: Torrential rain and landslides triggered by Typhoon Kajiki have claimed several lives and caused severe damage...

France to take streaming platform Kick to court
Paris [France], August 28: Over a week after the on-camera death of a popular video game streamer, the French government...

More explosions at Germany's Port of Hamburg after...
Berlin [Germany], August 28: Fresh explosions were reported at the Port of Hamburg overnight after a huge fire that raged...

Syria condemns Israeli drone attack killing six soldiers...
Damascus [Syria], August 28: Six soldiers were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Syria, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said...

Gunman attacks Minneapolis school children in chapel
Washington DC [US], August 28: A black-clad gunman killed two children and wounded 17 other people at a Minneapolis Catholic...

South Africa's most vulnerable struggle to find HIV...
Washington DC [US], August 28: On a warm evening in Johannesburg, the news spread like wildfire among sex workers: Within...

Turkey, Gulf states or European nations could host...
Ankara [Turkey], August 28: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Turkey, the Gulf States or European countries could...

Lebanon to present Hezbollah disarmament plan: US envoy
Beirut [Lebanon], August 27: Lebanon has agreed to present a plan aimed at persuading Hezbollah to disarm, and Israel will...

German minister slams Israeli settler violence on visit...
Berlin [Germany], August 27: German Development Minister Reem Alabali Radovan on Tuesday visited Arab-majority areas in the West Bank under...

Flight alert level lowered as Mount Etna quietens
Rome [Italy], August 27: Mount Etna, the infamous and highly volatile volcano on the Mediterranean island of Sicily, has calmed...

Russian forces advance into new Ukrainian region
Moscow [Russia], August 27: Russian troops have pushed into the Dnipropetrovsk region of central Ukraine, Ukrainian military analysts said on...

I look forward to meeting North Korea's Kim,...
Pyongyang [North Korea], August 27: United States President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung have expressed their willingness...

France formally returns slain king's skull to Madagascar
Paris [France], August 27: The head of a Malagasy king killed by French troops during a colonial-era war has been...

Mexican drug lord Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada pleads...
New York [US], August 27: Mexican drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada pleaded guilty in a US court on Monday,...

Israelis demand end to war, release of hostages...
Jerusalem [Israel], August 27: Israelis took to the streets on Tuesday in a major day of protests to demand the...

150 workers trapped in eastern Ukrainian mine after...
Moscow [Russia], August 27: Almost 150 miners in eastern Ukraine are trapped underground due to a Russian attack on their...