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Washington: The United States would allow Iran to operate nuclear power plants but not enrich its own fuel, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday...

TOKYO: Shinmoedake, a volcano in the mountain range on the border of Japan s Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, erupted on Sunday, marking its first...

Lagos: The Netherlands on Saturday officially handed back to Nigeria 119 precious ancient sculptures, stolen from the former kingdom of Benin more tha...

Vatican City: Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called on the world not to forget the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as war in the Middle East broadened with overni...

Vatican City: Pope Leo XIV on Sunday reacted to the news of the United States striking nuclear sites in Iran by saying that humanity is crying out fo...

Tokyo: Japan spotted Chinese vessels sailing near disputed islets in the East China Sea for a record 216 consecutive days, Tokyo s coast guard said Su...

Washington: President Donald Trump delivered brief remarks from the White House late Saturday after the US military carried out strikes on Iranian nuc...

Sao Paulo: At least eight people were killed Saturday when a hot air balloon with 21 passengers caught fire in southern Brazil, said the governor of S...

Kuching, Malaysia: Dressed in colourful costumes, some sporting feathered headgear and traditional swords, several thousand of Malaysia s ethnic Dayak...

Washington: US President Donald Trump escalated his criticism of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday publicly mulling whether to fire the...

Istanbul: Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday accused Israel of leading the Middle East towards total disaster by attacking Iran on Jun...

New York: Teslaannounced Friday that it signed an agreement to build its first grid scale energy storage power station project in mainland China. T...

New York: USPresident Donald Trump said Friday it will be difficult to request Israel stop its airstrikes in Iran, even as he pursues a diplomatic sol...

Paris: A giant balloon that became a popular landmark over the skies of Paris during the 2024 Olympics is set to rise again, with organisers hoping it...

Colombo: Sri Lanka deported 85 Chinese nationals on Friday, months after they were detained on suspicion of carrying out cybercrimes against banks....

Johannesburg: Ten black rhinos have been moved from South Africa to Mozambique to secure breeding of the critically endangered animals that became loc...

London: Pro Palestinian activists broke into the UK s largest air force base in southeast England and vandalised two planes in an act condemned by Pri...

Istanbul: The Iran Israel air war could spark a surge in migration that would affect Europe and the region, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan war...

Yangon: Myanmar s deposed democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked her 80th birthday in junta detention on Thursday, serving a raft of sentences set...

Washington: US President DonaldTrumpsaid on Thursday he will decide whether to attack Iran within the next two weeks due to a substantial chance of...

Washington: President Donald Trump announced Thursday he had given social media platform TikTok another 90 days to find a non Chinese buyer or be bann...

New Delhi: Air India s Boeing plane was well maintained before it crashed a week ago, killing all but one of 242 people on board, the airline said T...

Accra: Ghana s state electric distributor has cut power supply to several state institutions over unpaid bills running to tens of millions of dollars,...

Kyiv, Ukraine: Iran and Israel carrying out strikes against each othercould deflect global attention from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and even bol...

Tehran: Iran on Thursday accused the UN s nuclear watchdog of acting as a partner in what it described as Israel s war of aggression . The Inter...

Beijing: The 31st Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) kicked off Wednesday in China, featuring around 220,000 books from both local and global publ...

Houston: One of tech billionaire Elon Musk s SpaceX Starships exploded during a routine test late Wednesday in Texas, law enforcement said, adding tha...

JAKARTA: The Indonesian authorities have aborted a plan to illegally ship 1,950 eggs of protected turtles to Malaysia, an official from the Indonesian...

Washington: Elon Musk s X Corp has filed a lawsuit challenging a New York state law that requires social media companies to report how they moderate h...

Berlin: Maritime rescue organisations said Wednesday they had pulled more than 175,000 people from the Mediterranean over the past 10 years, as waves...

Paris: As Paris braces for a heatwave this weekend, a little known network of underground pipes will be cooling the Louvre museum and other storied la...