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UNICEF rehabilitates medical centers in Libya's floods-hit Derna

UNICEF rehabilitates medical centers in Libya's floods-hit Derna

Tripoli [Libya], May 20: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Sunday it has rehabilitated four primary medical centers...

Algeria launches 3rd general agricultural census

Algeria launches 3rd general agricultural census

Algiers [Algeria], May 20: Algeria on Sunday commenced its third general agricultural census, a critical measure to develop agricultural policies...

Ghana presidential convoy involved in fatal crash, president not in the convoy

Ghana presidential convoy involved in fatal crash, president...

Accra [Ghana], May 20: At least one person was killed and some others were injured as Ghana's presidential convoy was...

Lithuania confirms results of presidential election, referendum

Lithuania confirms results of presidential election, referendum

Vilnius [Lithuania], May 20: Lithuania's Central Election Commission (VRK) Sunday confirmed results of the first round of presidential election and...

Blue Origin completes first manned spaceflight since 2022 grounding

Blue Origin completes first manned spaceflight since 2022...

Los Angeles [US], May 20: U.S. aerospace company Blue Origin on Sunday launched a six-member crew to the edge...

Australian PM signals support for stricter social media age limits

Australian PM signals support for stricter social media...

Canberra [Australia], May 20: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has thrown his support behind a push to implement stricter age...

Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki lodge protest over US subcritical nuclear test

Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki lodge protest over US...

Tokyo [Japan], May 20: The administrations of Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures, which came under the US atomic bombing during...

Sri Lankan Tamils still haunted by civil war

Sri Lankan Tamils still haunted by civil war

Mullivaikkal [Sri Lanka], May 20: Sri Lanka's minority Tamil community marked 15 years since the end of the island nation's...

Biden reaches out to Gaza protesters in college speech

Biden reaches out to Gaza protesters in college...

Atlanta [US], May 20: President Joe Biden told students on Sunday at the former university of civil rights icon Martin...

Forty-seven dead in heavy rain, floods in northern Afghanistan

Forty-seven dead in heavy rain, floods in northern...

Kabul [Afghanistan], May 20: At least 47 people have died after continued heavy rain and flooding in northern Afghanistan, an...

France mobilises police to regain control of New Caledonia airport road

France mobilises police to regain control of New...

Paris [France], May 20: French police trying to restore order in the island territory of New Caledonia after days of...

Russian strikes on Ukraine's Kharkiv region kill at least 11|

Russian strikes on Ukraine's Kharkiv region kill at...

Kharkiv [Ukraine], May 20: Russia struck a busy lakeside resort on the edge of Ukraine's second largest city and also...

DRC army says it stopped attempted coup involving US citizens

DRC army says it stopped attempted coup involving...

Kinshasa [Congo], May 20: The leader of an attempted coup in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been killed...

Spain recalls ambassador after Argentina's Milei calls PM's wife 'corrupt'

Spain recalls ambassador after Argentina's Milei calls PM's...

Madrid [Spain], May 20: Spain recalled its ambassador to Buenos Aires for consultations after Argentina's President Javier Milei made derogatory...

Indonesia: Starlink launch to give millions Internet access

Indonesia: Starlink launch to give millions Internet access

Jakarta [Indonesia], May 20: Millions of people living in Indonesia's remote islands expect to get an internet connection with the...

Iran: Location of president's helicopter still unknown amid rescue efforts

Iran: Location of president's helicopter still unknown amid...

Tehran [Iran], May 20: The exact location of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, which experienced a rough landing...

Worst fears have passed for shot Slovak PM

Worst fears have passed for shot Slovak PM

Bratislava [Slovakia], May 20: The condition of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico remains "serious" but worst fears have "passed", the...

UNRWA: Nearly 800,000 now displaced from Rafah

UNRWA: Nearly 800,000 now displaced from Rafah

Gaza [Palestine], May 20: Roughly 800,000 people have been forced to flee Rafah since Israel launched a military operation in...

UAE following with deep concern media reports regarding helicopter crash carrying Iranian president, his accompanying delegation

UAE following with deep concern media reports regarding...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], May 20: The UAE is following with deep concern media reports on the tragic accident of the...

Saudi King to undergo medical examinations in Jeddah: Royal Court

Saudi King to undergo medical examinations in Jeddah:...

Jeddah [Saudi Arabia], May 20: The Saudi Royal Court said Sunday that the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King...

Paramilitary forces kill 8 civilians in central Sudan: resistance committee

Paramilitary forces kill 8 civilians in central Sudan:...

Khartoum [Sudan], May 19: At least eight civilians were killed in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...

Cyprus aims at continuous flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza

Cyprus aims at continuous flow of humanitarian aid...

Nicosia [Cyprus], May 19: Cyprus aims at having a continuous flow of humanitarian aid from the Larnaca port to the...

Wildfires sweep across Finland, straining rescue services

Wildfires sweep across Finland, straining rescue services

Helsinki [Finland], May 19: By Saturday afternoon, Finnish rescue services had responded to a total of 21 wildfire incidents across...

Sri Lanka warns of landslides following heavy rain

Sri Lanka warns of landslides following heavy rain

Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 19: Following heavy rainfall that lashed Sri Lanka, the country's National Building Research Organization (NBRO), in...

Palestinian rights group calls for investigation into Meta's data leaks to Israeli military

Palestinian rights group calls for investigation into Meta's...

Gaza [Palestine], May 19: The Sada Social online rights group says US tech giant Meta must be investigated for helping...

Prime minister Fico in stable condition; Slovakian politicians say threats rising

Prime minister Fico in stable condition; Slovakian politicians...

Bratislava [Slovakia], May 19: Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was critically injured in an assassination attempt on Wednesday, is...

100,000 people affected by climate protest that closes Munich Airport

100,000 people affected by climate protest that closes...

Munich [Germany], May 19: Members of the German climate activist group Last Generation breached Munich Airport's tarmac and glued themselves...