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UN predicts world economic growth to remain at 2.8% in 2025

UN predicts world economic growth to remain at...

New York [US], January 10: Global economic growth is projected to remain at 2.8% in 2025, unchanged from 2024, held...

Russia keeping close eye on Trump's claim to Greenland

Russia keeping close eye on Trump's claim to...

Moscow [Russia], January 10: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia is closely monitoring the situation, after US President-elect Donald...

New York's top court rejects Trump bid to delay hush-money case sentencing

New York's top court rejects Trump bid to...

New York [US], January 10: New York's top court has rejected an attempt by United States President-elect Donald Trump to...

Jimmy Carter honoured with state funeral in Washington

Jimmy Carter honoured with state funeral in Washington

Washington [US], January 10: Former United States President Jimmy Carter has been honoured with a state funeral at the Washington...

Five dead, over 1,000 homes destroyed as LA wildfires rage

Five dead, over 1,000 homes destroyed as LA...

New York [US], January 10: At least five people have died, four firefighters have been injured and more than 1,000...

Meloni positions herself as EU-US 'bridge builder'

Meloni positions herself as EU-US 'bridge builder'

Rome [Italy], January 10: Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is aiming for a central leadership role in Europe as President-elect...

US, Germany pledge more aid for Ukraine

US, Germany pledge more aid for Ukraine

Berlin [Germany], January 10: Washington and Berlin pledged more aid for Ukraine as allies of the embattled nation gathered with...

Massive crowd joins largest religious procession in Philippines

Massive crowd joins largest religious procession in Philippines

Manila [Philippines], January 10: A massive crowd of over 7.4 million mostly barefoot devotees on Thursday joined the largest religious...

Concert marks a month of Assad's fall

Concert marks a month of Assad's fall

Damascus [Syria], January 10: It's been a month since Bashar Al-Assad was overthrown, ending more than five decades of his...

EIB plans to double support for Bangladesh

EIB plans to double support for Bangladesh

Dhaka [Bangladesh], January 10: The European Investment Bank (EIB) plans to double its financial support for Bangladesh to €2 billion...

Donald Trump requests US Supreme Court to pause sentencing in hush money case

Donald Trump requests US Supreme Court to pause...

Washington [US], January 9: US President-elect Donald Trump requested the Supreme Court, to pause his sentencing in the hush money...

"Expected during winter," WHO official on HMPV virus

"Expected during winter," WHO official on HMPV virus

Geneva [Switzerland], January 9: Amid concerns surrounding the Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) virus, WHO official, Margaret Harris, said that the rise...

10 patients evacuated for treatment in Jordan, US

10 patients evacuated for treatment in Jordan, US

New York [US], January 9: World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said his organisation and partners facilitated the...

Ukrainian prisoners executed by Russia: UN

Ukrainian prisoners executed by Russia: UN

Geneva [Switzerland], January 9: The UN Human Rights Office says it has credible reports of the execution of 62 Ukrainian...

Israel bombs women, children in Gaza's 'safe zone'

Israel bombs women, children in Gaza's 'safe zone'

Gaza [Palestine], January 9: Many women and young children have been reported killed in Israel's latest attacks on Gaza, with...

Palisades fire in Los Angeles destroys 1,000 structures; no containment

Palisades fire in Los Angeles destroys 1,000 structures;...

Los Angeles [US], January 9: The worst-case scenario has been realized in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood of Los Angeles, where...

Trudeau says not 'a snowball's chance in hell' Canada will join US

Trudeau says not 'a snowball's chance in hell'...

New York [US], January 9: There is not "a snowball's chance in hell" that Canada will become the 51st US...

Germany and France warn Trump over threat to take over Greenland

Germany and France warn Trump over threat to...

Berlin [Germany] / Paris [France], January 9: Germany and France have warned Donald Trump against threatening Greenland, after the US...

Romania's ruling coalition agrees to hold presidential election on May 4

Romania's ruling coalition agrees to hold presidential election...

Bucharest [Romania], January 9: Romania's ruling coalition has agreed to have the first round of the presidential elections on May...

Wildfires rage out of control near Los Angeles, killing at least two

Wildfires rage out of control near Los Angeles,...

Los Angeles [California], January 9: At least two people were killed as a trio of fast-growing wildfires raged out of...

Urgency mounts in search for survivors of powerful Tibet earthquake

Urgency mounts in search for survivors of powerful...

Lhasa [Tibet], January 9: More than 400 people trapped by rubble in earthquake-stricken Tibet have been rescued.

Russian strike kills 13 in Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia

Russian strike kills 13 in Ukrainian city of...

Moscow [Russia], January 9: A Russian guided bomb attack killed at least 13 people and injured 29 others in Ukraine's...

Italian journalist Sala freed from Iran prison, returns home

Italian journalist Sala freed from Iran prison, returns...

Rome [Italy], January 9: Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was freed by Iran and returned home, three weeks after she was...

WHO says respiratory virus HMPV in China is 'common,' not a threat

WHO says respiratory virus HMPV in China is...

Geneva [Switzerland], January 8: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday offered reassurance about HMPV, a respiratory infection that is...

Bangladesh revokes passport of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina

Bangladesh revokes passport of ousted prime minister Sheikh...

Dhaka [Bangladesh], January 8: Bangladesh's interim administration has revoked the passport of its ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and 74...

US authorities seek to identify bodies found in JetBlue wheel well

US authorities seek to identify bodies found in...

Florida [US], January 8: Authorities in the United States have been working to identify two bodies discovered in the wheel...

Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers

Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers

New York [US], January 8: Meta is abandoning the use of independent fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram, replacing them...