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Egypt welcomes India-Pakistan ceasefire agreement

Egypt welcomes India-Pakistan ceasefire agreement

Cairo [Egypt], May 11: Egypt has welcomed the de-escalation and ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan following mediation efforts led...

Kuwait praises UAE's pioneering approach to advanced media, quality content

Kuwait praises UAE's pioneering approach to advanced media,...

Kuwait City [Kuwait], May 11: Kuwait's Minister of Information and Culture and Minister of State for Youth Affairs, Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi,...

European leaders tell Putin to agree to Ukraine ceasefire or face new sanctions

European leaders tell Putin to agree to Ukraine...

Kyiv [Ukraine], May 11: Major European powers threw their weight behind an unconditional 30-day Ukraine ceasefire on Saturday, with the...

1 missing after ship capsizes near U.S. Pacific Northwest coast

1 missing after ship capsizes near U.S. Pacific...

San Francisco [California], May 10: One person was missing after a ship capsized near Grays Harbor County's Westport, U.S. Washington...

Canada's unemployment rate rises to 6.9 pct

Canada's unemployment rate rises to 6.9 pct

Ottawa [Canada], May 10: Canada's unemployment rate rose 0.2 percentage points to 6.9 percent in April, following an increase of...

15 U.S. states sue over Trump's executive order to fast-track fossil fuel projects

15 U.S. states sue over Trump's executive order...

San Francisco [California], May 10: A coalition of 15 U.S. states is filing a new lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's...

Mexico sues Google over Gulf of Mexico name change

Mexico sues Google over Gulf of Mexico name...

Mexico City [Mexico], May 10: Mexico has filed a legal lawsuit against Google for labeling the Gulf of Mexico as...

Sinotruk unveils Howo Max truck in Kenya

Sinotruk unveils Howo Max truck in Kenya

Nairobi [Kenya], May 10: Chinese heavy-duty truckmaker Sinotruk has launched its Howo Max model in Kenya, appointing local motor dealer...

South Africa raises concerns with U.S. over alleged "refugee" resettlement plan

South Africa raises concerns with U.S. over alleged...

Johannesburg [Gauteng], May 10: The South African government has raised concerns with the United States over its reported processing of...

EAC central banks project 5.8 pct regional economic growth in 2025

EAC central banks project 5.8 pct regional economic...

Nairobi [Kenya], May 10: Central banks of the East African Community (EAC) member states on Friday projected regional economic growth...

False bomb threat temporarily shuts down Eindhoven Airport in Netherlands

False bomb threat temporarily shuts down Eindhoven Airport...

The Hague [Netherlands], May 10: Eindhoven Airport in the southern Dutch province of North Brabant was temporarily closed on Friday...

Spain invests 8.4 mln euros to boost global presence of its food, gastronomy

Spain invests 8.4 mln euros to boost global...

Barcelona [Spain], May 10: Spain is investing 8.4 million euros (9.46 million U.S. dollars) in a fresh push to elevate...

Bulgarian president proposes referendum on euro adoption

Bulgarian president proposes referendum on euro adoption

Sofia [Bulgaria], May 10: Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said on Friday that he is submitting to parliament a proposal to...

Malta becomes Europe's largest ship registry

Malta becomes Europe's largest ship registry

Valletta [Malta], May 10: Malta's ship registry had over 10,000 ships registered by the end of the first quarter of...

Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender died at 103

Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender died at 103

Berlin [Germany], May 10: Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender died at the age of 103 on Friday, according to German media...

Dutch national library appeals to public over theft of rare books

Dutch national library appeals to public over theft...

The Hague [Netherlands], May 10: The National Library of the Netherlands (KB) in The Hague is appealing to the public...

Operation to clear WWI, WWII explosives begins off Lithuania

Operation to clear WWI, WWII explosives begins off...

Vilnius [Lithuania], May 10: An operation to find and clear unexploded ammunition off the coast of Lithuania began on Friday,...

Temperatures remain above 1.5°Cthreshold after second hottest April

Temperatures remain above 1.5°Cthreshold after second hottest April

London [UK], May 10: Last month was the second hottest April on record with world temperatures remaining above the key...

Danish minister meets US envoy over alleged Greenland espionage plot

Danish minister meets US envoy over alleged Greenland...

Copenhagen [Denmark], May 10: Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen met with a senior US embassy official on Thursday to...

Israel won't be involved in new Gaza aid plan, only in security, US envoy says

Israel won't be involved in new Gaza aid...

Jerusalem [Israel], May 10: Israel won't be involved in new Gaza aid plan, only in security, US envoy says A...

US, Europeans finalising 30-day Ukraine-Russia ceasefire proposal, says diplomatic source

US, Europeans finalising 30-day Ukraine-Russia ceasefire proposal, says...

Washington DC [US], May 10: The United States and its European allies are finalising a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire...

In Peru's north, locals remember Pope Leo driving pick-up, playing tennis

In Peru's north, locals remember Pope Leo driving...

Lima [Peru], May 10: The small city of Chiclayo in northern Peru was bustling with excitement on Friday, with businesses...

Warm American welcome for new pope masks US church's deep divide

Warm American welcome for new pope masks US...

Washington DC [US], May 10: As Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as pontiff at the Sistine Chapel on...

Quad concludes simulation exercise for Indo-Pacific Logistics Network

Quad concludes simulation exercise for Indo-Pacific Logistics Network

Washington DC [US], May 9: The US Department of State in a statement on Wednesday (local time) said that the...

More explosions rock Port Sudan

More explosions rock Port Sudan

Khartoum [Sudan], May 9: Sudan's army said its anti-aircraft systems intercepted drones targeting a naval base in the wartime capital...

South Korean presidential candidate accuses party of pushing him out

South Korean presidential candidate accuses party of pushing...

Seoul [South Korea], May 9: South Korea's right-wing presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo accused his party on Thursday of trying to...

Colombia's top court orders arrests of former legislature presidents

Colombia's top court orders arrests of former legislature...

Bogota [Colombia], May 9: Colombia's Supreme Court on Wednesday issued arrest orders for Ivan Name, the former president of the...