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US plans to send astronaut to moon this decade

US plans to send astronaut to moon this...

Washington [US], December 22: The United States has announced that alongside American astronauts, it plans to land an international astronaut...

Venezuela releases 10 US hostages in exchange for Maduro ally

Venezuela releases 10 US hostages in exchange for...

Washington [US], December 22: Venezuela has agreed to release 10 US hostages and extradite a fugitive billionaire in exchange for...

Australia must make remand 'exception' and ban use of spit hoods, UN says

Australia must make remand 'exception' and ban use...

Sydney [Australia], December 22: The United Nations Committee against Torture has slammed Australia for the "extraordinary number" of people on...

Argentina's ultra-liberal President Milei issues hard reform decree

Argentina's ultra-liberal President Milei issues hard reform decree

Buenos Aires [Argentina], December 22: The new Argentinian government of ultra-liberal President Javier Milei has begun to restructure the South...

Gunman kills 15, wounds 24 at Prague university

Gunman kills 15, wounds 24 at Prague university

Prague [Czech Republic], December 22: A gunman opened fire at a university in the centre of Prague on Thursday afternoon,...

Hundreds battling wildfire near Cape Town in South Africa

Hundreds battling wildfire near Cape Town in South...

Cape Town [South Africa], December 21: Hundreds of firefighters were battling a wildfire for a second day Wednesday on a...

German authorities shut down illegal darknet marketplace

German authorities shut down illegal darknet marketplace

Berlin [Germany], December 21: German authorities have shut down the server infrastructure of the illegal darknet marketplace "Kingdom Market," the...

Vietnam to increase regional minimum salary

Vietnam to increase regional minimum salary

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 21: Vietnam will lift regional minimum salary for laborers by 6 percent next year, local media reported...

S. Korea's top court orders Japanese firms to compensate WWII forced labor victims

S. Korea's top court orders Japanese firms to...

Seoul [South Korea], December 21: South Korea's top court on Thursday ordered Japanese firms to compensate the victims who were...

UNICEF chief raises alarm about drinking water crisis for children in Gaza

UNICEF chief raises alarm about drinking water crisis...

United Nations, December 21: The head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday issued a dire warning that the...

Hurricane Otis kills 52 in Mexico

Hurricane Otis kills 52 in Mexico

Mexico City [Mexico], December 21: Hurricane Otis has killed 52 and left 32 missing in Mexico, Governor of Guerrero state,...

EU migrant pact hailed by Italian gov't, slammed by groups

EU migrant pact hailed by Italian gov't, slammed...

Rome [Italy], December 21: The European Union's (EU) New Pact on Migration and Asylum has been welcomed by government officials...

Polish gov't dismisses public media chiefs

Polish gov't dismisses public media chiefs

Warsaw [Poland], December 21: Poland's Culture Minister sacked the heads of three state media outlets on Wednesday, leading to protests...

Cambodia records 11,506 new business establishments in first 11 months

Cambodia records 11,506 new business establishments in first...

Phnom Penh [Cambodia], December 21: Cambodia issued operating licenses to 11,506 new companies and enterprises in the first 11 months...

Australia rebuffs U.S. request for warship in Red Sea

Australia rebuffs U.S. request for warship in Red...

Canberra [Australia], December 21: The Australian government has announced that it will not send a warship to the Red Sea...

Behind the 'revolution' led by Myanmar's ethnic minority fighters

Behind the 'revolution' led by Myanmar's ethnic minority...

Namhsan [Myanmar], December 21: Pickup trucks carrying ethnic minority fighters rolled into a town in Myanmar's northeastern Shan state...

Survivors of China's deadliest quake brave freezing cold

Survivors of China's deadliest quake brave freezing cold

Jishishan [China], December 21: Survivors of China's deadliest earthquake in years huddled in makeshift aid tents despite freezing temperatures on...

Egypt seeks to broker Gaza ceasefire as Hamas

Egypt seeks to broker Gaza ceasefire as Hamas

Cairo [Egypt], December 21: The U.S. said "very serious" negotiations were taking place on a new Gaza ceasefire and release...

Polish government takes public TV news channel off air amid reform drive

Polish government takes public TV news channel off...

Warsaw [Poland], December 21: Poland's new government took a public news channel off the air on Wednesday and dismissed executives...

Macron defends new French migration law despite political tensions

Macron defends new French migration law despite political...

Paris [France], December 21: French President Emmanuel Macron defended a bill to toughen immigration laws despite an embarrassing parliamentary vote...

Trump urges US Supreme Court not to expedite 2020 immunity claim

Trump urges US Supreme Court not to expedite...

Washington [US], December 21: Former President Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request by federal prosecutors...

Anti-war candidate Duntsova applies to run in election against Russia's Putin

Anti-war candidate Duntsova applies to run in election...

Moscow [Russia], December 21: Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova put her name forward on Wednesday to stand in a Russian...

Biden attacks Trump's anti-immigrant 'blood' comments in Wisconsin visit

Biden attacks Trump's anti-immigrant 'blood' comments in Wisconsin...

Washington [US], December 21: U.S. President Joe Biden criticized presidential opponent Donald Trump's recent anti-immigrant comments as he visited a...

Ukrainians prepare for first wartime Christmas on new calendar

Ukrainians prepare for first wartime Christmas on new...

Kyiv [Ukraine], December 21: Ukrainians are gearing up to celebrate their first Christmas according to a new calendar, another step...

Kazakhstan starts building new railroad to China

Kazakhstan starts building new railroad to China

Astana [Kazakhstan], December 21: Abai region of Kazakhstan started building a new 272 km-long railway line en route Bakhty-Ayagoz, a...

German court orders repeat of 2021 election in parts of Berlin

German court orders repeat of 2021 election in...

Berlin [Germany], December 20: Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that the 2021 national election must be repeated in...

NASA to launch new mission to help build 3D map of Milky Way

NASA to launch new mission to help build...

Los Angeles [US], December 20: NASA is preparing to launch a new mission that will stare at the space between...