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Burgers bring bite of normality for Turkey quake survivors 17 Feb 2023 - 05:42 pm

Antakya, Turkey: Dozens of survivors of the earthquake that levelled swathes of Antakya in southeastern Turkey flocked on Friday to a mobile food...

Allies who can send Ukraine tanks must 'do so now': Scholz 17 Feb 2023 - 04:58 pm

Munich, Germany: Allies with available battle tanks should send them now to Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Friday, as NATO partners struggle...

Poor Pakistanis worry IMF bailout measures risk stark future 17 Feb 2023 - 04:40 pm

ISLAMABAD: Saddique Shah, a 53-year-old construction worker, sat along a sidewalk with his fellow workers on the outskirts of the capital Islamabad, his...

France raids consultants' homes in Macron campaign probe 17 Feb 2023 - 04:39 pm

Paris: French investigators raided the homes of four senior managers at consultancy McKinsey in late January, over suspicions the firm illegally aided President...

Fetterman draws praise for getting help for depression 17 Feb 2023 - 04:03 pm

Washington:When Patrick Kennedy was in Congress, he would sneak in his treatments for substance abuse over the holidays, in between congressional work periods....

Blast at Slovenia fireworks company kills 1, injures 2 17 Feb 2023 - 03:35 pm

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia: An explosion at a fireworks company in central Slovenia has killed at least one person and seriously injured two, police said...

Mixed results for Moderna mRNA flu vaccine trial 17 Feb 2023 - 03:32 pm

Washington: US biotech company Moderna said Thursday it had mixed results from a large-scale trial of its mRNA flu shot, based on the...

British embassy guard jailed for 13 years for spying for Moscow 17 Feb 2023 - 02:44 pm

London: A former security guard at the UK's Berlin embassy who admitted spying for Moscow was on Friday handed a jail sentence of...

Trains, ferries canceled because of storm over Nordics 17 Feb 2023 - 02:41 pm

COPENHAGEN, Denmark:A storm over the North Sea on Friday led to dozens of cancellations of train and ferry connections in northern Denmark and...

Worker pleads not guilty to killing 7 at California farms 17 Feb 2023 - 02:39 pm

REDWOOD CITY, Calif: A farmworker charged with killing seven people last month in back-to-back shootings at two Northern California mushroom farms pleaded not...

China top tech dealmaker goes missing amid graft crackdown 17 Feb 2023 - 01:58 pm

Hong Kong: Shares of the company that operates one of China’s top investment banks, China Renaissance, plunged Friday after the firm said it...

Peru’s Machu Picchu reopens: What you should know 17 Feb 2023 - 01:14 pm

When anti-government protestserupted and turned violent in Lima and Cusco in January 2023,Peru’s tourism industry had justbegun recovering from nearly two years of...

Thousands of flights canceled as German airport staff strike 17 Feb 2023 - 12:53 pm

BERLIN: Thousands of flights to and from German airports were canceled Friday as workers walked out to press their demands for inflation-busting pay...

France drops Covid testing for travellers from China 17 Feb 2023 - 12:13 pm

Beijing: France has dropped Covid testing restrictions imposed on travellers from China, the French embassy in Beijing said. Since January, visitors aged 11...

Under fire TikTok pledges to follow EU rules 17 Feb 2023 - 12:05 pm

Paris: Social media platform TikTok, famed for bite-size videos of pranks and dances, said Friday it was working hard to comply with EU...

Hong Kong’s January visitors plunge 93% from pre-pandemic level 17 Feb 2023 - 11:59 am

The number of tourists arriving in Hong Kong in January was 93% less than pre-pandemic levels as the final weeks of Covid travel...

Japan aborts launch of 1st H3 rocket carrying defense sensor 17 Feb 2023 - 11:54 am

TOKYO: The launch of a new flagship series H3 rocket carrying an observation satellite and an experimental infrared sensor that could detect missile...