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Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: Two Palestinians including a 12-year-old boy were killed in separate Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the...

Kampala: Uganda on Monday banned an increasingly popular form of funeral celebration known as "disco matanga" that authorities said was leading to sexual...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin is to meet Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian for talks Friday at a forum in the Central Asian country...

London: The UK government insisted on Monday that the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar was "not up for negotiation" after it...

Beirut, Lebanon: Human Rights Watch on Monday said Israeli strikes near the main Lebanon-Syria border crossing were putting civilians at "grave risk" as...

Addis Ababa: Ethiopian lawmakers on Monday chose Foreign Minister Taye Atske Selassie as the country's new president -- a largely ceremonial role --...

Washington: No one is likely to be happy with the projected higher deficits laid out in a new analysis of Kamala Harris' and...

Tunis: President Kais Saied was poised Monday to win Tunisia's election by a huge margin, though low voter turnout reflected widespread discontent in...

Kolkata: Indian police on Monday charged a man with the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor, a crime which appalled the country...

Istanbul: Turkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday vowed that Israel would pay a price for the "genocide" in Gaza as he marked...

Stockholm: US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for their discovery of microRNA and its...

Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories: One year after Israel unleashed a deadly massacre in Gaza, the Palestinian territory is unrecognisable and its residents are...

Stockholm: US duo Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for their discovery of microRNA and its...

Paris: Stormy weather has threatened to delay the launch of Europe's Hera spacecraft, which is scheduled to blast off on Monday, SpaceX has...

Tokyo: Nintendo shares jumped more than four percent Monday after a top official of Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund was quoted as saying...

Geneva: Increasingly intense floods and droughts are a "distress signal" of what is to come as climate change makes the planet's water cycle...

Manila: The Philippines and South Korea committed Monday to deepening maritime cooperation, their presidents said, in the face of China's assertion of its...

Doha: Hamas's attack on October 7 last year took Israel back to "square zero", a senior official said on Monday on the first...