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New York nurses end strike after reaching deals on hospital staffing 12 Jan 2023 - 10:17 pm

NEW YORK: More than 7,000 nurses in New York City ended a three-day strike and returned to work on Thursday after reaching tentative...

Aid chief to ask Taliban's Kandahar leaders to scrap female worker ban 12 Jan 2023 - 10:02 pm

Kabul: The head of a major aid group that suspended work in Afghanistan after the Taliban banned female NGO workers said on Thursday...

Somali leader urges people to flush out Al-Shabaab 'bedbugs' 12 Jan 2023 - 09:52 pm

Mogadishu: Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud called on Thursday on ordinary people to help flush out members of the Al-Shabaab jihadist group he...

US judge orders museum not to move Van Gogh painting caught in row 12 Jan 2023 - 09:09 pm

New York: A US judge has ordered a museum to keep hold of a Vincent Van Gogh painting after a collector filed a...

CIA chief in Libya after Lockerbie suspect handover 12 Jan 2023 - 08:55 pm

Tripoli: CIA chief William Burns has met Libya's interim premier weeks after the authorities handed the United States a suspect in the 1988...

Embattled George Santos defies New York Republicans' call to step down 12 Jan 2023 - 08:39 pm

Washington: Embattled US Representative George Santos said he had no plans to heed fellow New York Republicans' calls to step down, a plea...

Improved Syria-Turkey ties should seek end to 'occupation': Assad 12 Jan 2023 - 08:08 pm

Damascus: Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that a Moscow-brokered rapprochement with Turkey should aim for "the end of occupation" by Ankara...

French first lady backs controversial school uniform 12 Jan 2023 - 07:31 pm

Paris: France's first lady Brigitte Macron has waded into a contentious debate over school uniforms, backing their use at the very moment the...

Second set of classified papers found at Biden's home, White House says 12 Jan 2023 - 07:15 pm

Washington: President Joe Biden's legal team has discovered a second set of classified documents from his time as vice president at a storage...

Art collector says Van Gogh on display in Detroit museum was stolen from him 12 Jan 2023 - 07:02 pm

New York: In October, the Detroit Institute of Arts pulled back the curtains on its three-month Van Gogh exhibit, proudly boasting that its...

UK paper group bids to throw out Prince Harry and others' privacy lawsuits 12 Jan 2023 - 07:00 pm

LONDON: The publisher of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper is applying to dismiss lawsuits brought by Prince Harry, singer Elton John and other individuals...

Hungary blasts EU over blocked education grants 12 Jan 2023 - 06:49 pm

Budapest: Budapest on Thursday slammed the European Commission's decision to withhold grants from Hungarian universities as "unacceptable and intolerable" in the latest spat...

Nine killed in mosque attack in Burkina Faso 12 Jan 2023 - 06:47 pm

Ouagadougou: Nine people were killed when suspected jihadists attacked a mosque in northeastern Burkina Faso, local sources said on Thursday. The attack happened...

Violinists play last tunes before German coal village demolition 12 Jan 2023 - 06:30 pm

Luetzerath: Above the din of bulldozers and the shouts of hundreds of climate activists facing off against riot police in the western German...

Germany borrowed 115.4bn euros in 2022 - finance ministry sources 12 Jan 2023 - 06:08 pm

Berlin: The German government's net borrowing amounted to 115.4bn euros ($124.48bn) in 2022, finance ministry sources said on Thursday, as the COVID-19 pandemic...

UK review of 'golden' visas for millionaires finds links to corruption 12 Jan 2023 - 06:02 pm

LONDON: The British government said on Thursday that a small number of people who were granted so-called "golden visas" for millionaire investors might...

Iran media claims detained British-Iranian linked to death of nuclear scientist 12 Jan 2023 - 05:47 pm

Dubai: Iranian state media published a video on Thursday which they said showed that British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, who is in detention and...