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Cambodia, Thailand sign 11 agreements at extraordinary meeting

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 team returns to Iran

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 City

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 Moldova on visit

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 in classrooms

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, injures 27: Media reports

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

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

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

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

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

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 Vietnam and Thailand

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

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 major fire extinguished

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 near Damascus

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

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 medication after US aid cuts

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 talks with Putin

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

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 to West Bank

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

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

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, Trump tells South Korea's Lee

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

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 guilty in US court

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 in protest

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 Russian attack

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...