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Pakistan restores electricity, reopens roads after floods kill hundreds

Pakistan restores electricity, reopens roads after floods kill...

Islamabad [Pakistan], August 20: Pakistan has restored 70 percent of electricity service and reopened damaged roads in the north and...

Hong Kong summons UK, Australia envoys after activists granted asylum

Hong Kong summons UK, Australia envoys after activists...

Hong Kong, August 20: Two pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have been granted asylum separately in the UK and Australia,...

Aid shipment from Cyprus on its way to Gaza Strip

Aid shipment from Cyprus on its way to...

Gaza [Palestine], August 20: A freighter carrying about 1,200 tonnes of aid supplies for the Gaza Strip has left the...

Up to 300,000 Syrians possibly missing under Assad family rule

Up to 300,000 Syrians possibly missing under Assad...

Damascus [Syria], August 20: A Syrian commission for missing persons estimated that between 120,000 and 300,000 people have gone missing...

German firefighters join battle against Spain's wildfires

German firefighters join battle against Spain's wildfires

Madrid [Spain], August 20: German firefighters have arrived in northern Spain to help combat the country's most severe wildfires in...

Swedish town moves historic 672-tonne wooden church to safer ground

Swedish town moves historic 672-tonne wooden church to...

Copenhagen [Denmark], August 20: A historic wooden church in northern Sweden is being moved 5 kilometres down the road as...

Switzerland ready to grant Putin 'immunity' to attend peace talks

Switzerland ready to grant Putin 'immunity' to attend...

Geneva [Switzerland], August 20: Switzerland is prepared to host talks on the war in Ukraine that involve the participation of...

German foreign minister criticises China, North Korea over Indo-Pacific tensions

German foreign minister criticises China, North Korea over...

Osaka [Japan], August 20: German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Tuesday accused China and North Korea of threatening international stability...

More humanitarian workers killed in 2024 than ever before, says UN

More humanitarian workers killed in 2024 than ever...

New York [US], August 20: More humanitarian workers were killed last year than ever before, according to the UN Office...

Russia hands over 1,000 bodies, Ukraine 19 bodies of fallen soldiers

Russia hands over 1,000 bodies, Ukraine 19 bodies...

Moscow [Russia], August 20: Russia has returned the bodies of 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers, chief Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said on...

Hamas accepts Egyptian-Qatari proposal for Gaza ceasefire

Hamas accepts Egyptian-Qatari proposal for Gaza ceasefire

Cairo [Egypt], August 19: Informed Egyptian sources told Al Qahera News that Hamas has agreed to the proposal presented by...

Egyptian President affirms commitment to coordination with Bahrain

Egyptian President affirms commitment to coordination with Bahrain

Cairo [Egypt], August 19: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has affirmed his country's keenness to continue joint coordination and cooperation...

60 Palestinians martyred in Gaza in 24 hours

60 Palestinians martyred in Gaza in 24 hours

Gaza [Gaza City], August 19: A total of 60 Palestinians were martyred and 344 others injured as a result of...

EU imports €4.4 billion of Russian LNG in H1 2025

EU imports €4.4 billion of Russian LNG in...

Brussels [Belgium], August 19: The European Union imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia worth around €4.48 billion (US$5.2 billion)...

Trump discusses Ukraine crisis settlement with Zelensky, European leaders

Trump discusses Ukraine crisis settlement with Zelensky, European...

Olympia [Washington], August 19: US President Donald Trump held a series of high-level meetings at the White House aimed at...

NASA, Google develop smart medical assistant for astronauts

NASA, Google develop smart medical assistant for astronauts

Abu Dhabi, August 19: NASA and Google are jointly developing an intelligent medical assistant designed to support astronauts during space...

Record area of land burnt as Spain battles worst forest fires in decades

Record area of land burnt as Spain battles...

Madrid [Spain], August 19: Spain is seeing its most devastating forest fires in over 20 years, with 3,440 square kilometres...

EU leaders set for video call following Washington meeting with Trump

EU leaders set for video call following Washington...

Washington DC [US], August 19: EU leaders are set to hold a video conference call on Tuesday following a high-stakes...

Trump moves to abolish postal voting ahead of 2026 midterm elections

Trump moves to abolish postal voting ahead of...

Washington DC [US], August 19: US President Donald Trump wants to abolish postal voting and electronic voting machines with an...

France extends youth night curfew in Nîmes over drug crimes

France extends youth night curfew in Nîmes over...

Paris [France], August 19: A night-time curfew for young people in Nîmes in southern France has been extended until the...

Patriotism important to UK's Starmer

Patriotism important to UK's Starmer

London [UK], August 19: Patriotism "will always be an important thing" to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Downing Street said, after...

Trump to call Putin after meeting European leaders

Trump to call Putin after meeting European leaders

Washington DC [US], August 19: US President Donald Trump on Monday said he will call Russian President Vladimir Putin after...

Amnesty slams Israel for deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza

Amnesty slams Israel for deliberately starving Palestinians in...

London [UK], August 19: The human rights group Amnesty International has accused Israel of enacting a "deliberate policy" of starvation...

Myanmar to hold 1st general election since 2021 coup

Myanmar to hold 1st general election since 2021...

Naypyidaw [Myanmar], August 19: Myanmar will begin its general elections on December 28, its military government announced, in a phased...

Bolivia's presidential election heads to runoff between opposition candidates

Bolivia's presidential election heads to runoff between opposition...

Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], August 19: Preliminary results show that Bolivia's presidential election will go to a runoff, as no...

Iraq starts excavating mass grave of suspected Islamic State victims

Iraq starts excavating mass grave of suspected Islamic...

Baghdad [Iraq], August 19: Iraq will work on identifying victims at a mass grave believed to hold the remains of...

Iran says it will resume talks in the coming days with UN nuclear watchdog

Iran says it will resume talks in the...

Tehran [Iran], August 19: Iran plans to hold another round of talks with the UN's nuclear watchdog in the coming...