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More than 18,000 people in lockdown as wildfire rages in Catalonia

More than 18,000 people in lockdown as wildfire...

Barcelona [Catalonia], July 9: Spanish authorities ordered more than 18,000 residents of the northeastern Tarragona province to remain indoors on...

Gazans reject Trump's displacement plan

Gazans reject Trump's displacement plan

Gaza City [Gaza], July 9: Whenever Mansour Abu Al-Khaier stares across Gaza, all the 45-year-old Palestinian man sees is death...

Rescue teams find three more bodies after central Texas floods

Rescue teams find three more bodies after central...

Austin [Texas], July 9: The death toll in Kerr County crept up to 87 on Tuesday as search and rescue...

US envoy Barrack lauds Lebanon's response to disarming Hezbollah

US envoy Barrack lauds Lebanon's response to disarming...

Beirut [Lebanon], July 8: US envoy Thomas Barrack expressed satisfaction on Monday with Lebanon's response to Washington's proposal to disarm...

Chinese national detained at Milan airport over US espionage claims

Chinese national detained at Milan airport over US...

Rome [Italy], July 8: A Chinese national has been detained at a Milan airport over suspicion of espionage in the...

New Romanian premier Bolojan links austerity plans to vote of confidence

New Romanian premier Bolojan links austerity plans to...

Bucharest [Romania], July 8: New Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan has tied a vote of confidence in parliament to a...

Palestinian news agency says Israeli military arrested its editor-in-chief

Palestinian news agency says Israeli military arrested its...

Ramallah [Palestine], July 8: A Palestinian news agency on Monday said its editor-in-chief was arrested by the Israeli military in...

Netanyahu meets Trump at critical moment for Gaza

Netanyahu meets Trump at critical moment for Gaza

Washington [US] / Gaza [Palestine], July 8: US President Donald Trump was set to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

Suriname elects first female president amid uncertainty

Suriname elects first female president amid uncertainty

Paramaribo [Suriname], July 8: Suriname has elected Jennifer Geerlings-Simons as its first female president, with parliament backing the 71-year-old physician...

Wildfires erupt across Mediterranean as heatwave worsens

Wildfires erupt across Mediterranean as heatwave worsens

Rome [Italy], July 8: Countries across the Mediterranean are battling fast-spreading wildfires and soaring temperatures as a heatwave sweeps through...

Typhoon Danas weakens after causing deaths, damage in Taiwan

Typhoon Danas weakens after causing deaths, damage in...

Taipei [Taiwan], July 8: Typhoon Danas weakened to a tropical storm on Monday after killing two people and injuring more...

President Trump hits back at Elon Musk's 'ridiculous' America Party plans

President Trump hits back at Elon Musk's 'ridiculous'...

Washington [US], July 8: US President Donald Trump has hit back at his former adviser, tech billionaire Elon Musk, over...

Trump delays tariffs on 14 countries until August

Trump delays tariffs on 14 countries until August

Washington DC [US], July 8: President Donald Trump says he has delayed imposing higher tariffs on goods entering the US...

Man killed after opening fire on Texas border patrol station

Man killed after opening fire on Texas border...

Austin [Texas], July 8: A man with a rifle and tactical gear was shot dead by police after he opened...

Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

Jerusalem [Israel], July 8: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told President Donald Trump he had nominated him for...

BRICS tariff to be applied if they adopt 'anti-American' policies

BRICS tariff to be applied if they adopt...

Washington DC [US], July 8: The Trump administration will not immediately impose a new 10% tariff against members of the...

Blaze in Cairo disrupts communications, injures 22

Blaze in Cairo disrupts communications, injures 22

Cairo [Egypt], July 8: At least 22 people were injured after a fire broke out on Monday in a key...

Texas search teams face more rain, death toll surpasses 80

Texas search teams face more rain, death toll...

Austin [Texas], July 8: A Christian girls' summer camp in central Texas said on Monday that at least 27 campers...

Kenya anti-government protests leave 10 dead and dozens injured

Kenya anti-government protests leave 10 dead and dozens...

Nairobi [Kenya], July 8: Kenyan police fired to disperse demonstrators in Nairobi marking the 35th anniversary of pro-democracy rallies on...

Trump to end deportation protections for thousands of Hondurans and Nicaraguans

Trump to end deportation protections for thousands of...

Washington DC [US], July 8: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will terminate deportation protections for thousands of Hondurans and...

Sacked Russian transport minister found dead in his car

Sacked Russian transport minister found dead in his...

Moscow [Russia], July 8: Russia's sacked transport minister has been found dead in his car outside Moscow with a gunshot...

Polish officials will begin checks at German border from today

Polish officials will begin checks at German border...

Warsaw [Poland], July 7: Polish officials will begin checks on the border with Germany on Monday, focusing on vehicles with...

Texas floods killed 21 children, some still missing, say officials

Texas floods killed 21 children, some still missing,...

Washington DC [US], July 7: Officials in Texas have confirmed that at least 21 children died when severe flash floods...

Ukrainian drones disrupt air traffic over Russia

Ukrainian drones disrupt air traffic over Russia

Moscow [Russia], July 7: Ukrainian drones caused severe disruptions to Russian air traffic on Sunday, forcing authorities to suspend flights...

Five Turkish soldiers killed by methane gas in Iraqi cave

Five Turkish soldiers killed by methane gas in...

Turkey [Ankara], July 7: Five Turkish soldiers died in Iraq after being exposed to methane gas inside a cave, the...

Brazil's Lula condemns Gaza 'genocide'

Brazil's Lula condemns Gaza 'genocide'

Brasília [Brazil], July 7: Brazil's president says the world must act to stop what he describes as an Israeli "genocide"...

Gunboats target cargo vessel in Red Sea

Gunboats target cargo vessel in Red Sea

Washington DC [US], July 7: A commercial vessel in the Red Sea has come under attack after small boats fired...