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China's Xi seeks closer coordination with Kim
Beijing [China], September 6: Chinese leader Xi Jinping and North Korea's Kim Jong Un have pledged to deepen strategic coordination...

UAE President, Sultan of Oman discuss bilateral ties,...
Dubai [UAE], September 6: UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today held a phone call with...

UN says lives at risk without urgent support...
New York [UAE], September 6: In statement on Afghanistan, Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, warned...

Canada's trade deficit shrinks to $4.9 bn in...
Ottawa [Canada], September 6: Canada's trade deficit narrowed in July as overall exports rose, especially driven by outbound shipments of...

UAE expresses solidarity with Nigeria; offers condolences over...
Dubai [UAE], September 6: The United Arab Emirates expressed its solidarity with the Federal Republic of Nigeria after a boat...

Google hit with €2.95 bn by EU in...
Brussels [Belgium], September 6: The European Commission has fined Google €2.95 billion for abusing its dominant position in the advertising...

Mpox outbreak no longer global emergency, says WHO
Geneva [Switzerland], September 6: After more than a year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) today announced the end of the...

Lammy named UK's new Deputy PM in cabinet...
London [UK], September 6: Following the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has initiated...

Egypt welcomes AL's adoption of resolution on joint...
Cairo [Egypt], September 6: Egypt Friday commended the Arab League Council's adoption of the resolution titled "A Joint Vision for...

Arab FMs affirm support for Lebanon's sovereignty; call...
Cairo [Egypt], September 6: The Council of the Arab League of, at the level of foreign ministers, concluded its 164th...

Pan-Arab condemnation of Israeli plans for Palestinian displacement
Dubai [UAE], September 6: Arab countries today strongly condemned statements attributed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the displacement...

Washington DC sues Trump administration over National Guard...
Washington [US], September 5: Washington DC has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the deployment of National Guard...

Kim Jong-un declares that North Korea will always...
Pyongyang [North Korea], September 5: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has told Chinese President Xi Jinping that Pyongyang's support for...

Former US President Biden has skin cancer surgery
Washington [US], September 5: Former US President Joe Biden's spokesman said Mr Biden recently underwent Mohs surgery - a medical...

US accuses Venezuela of sending 2 F-16 fighter...
Washington [US], September 5: The US Department of Defense announced late on September 4 that two Venezuelan military aircraft flew...

One killed and at least six injured in...
Ottawa [Canada], September 5: One person has died and at least six others have been injured in a mass stabbing...

26 nations vow to give Ukraine postwar security...
Paris [France], September 5: Twenty-six nations have pledged to provide postwar security guarantees to Ukraine, which will include an international...

Ebola outbreak kills 15 in DR Congo
Kinshasa [Democratic Republic of Congo], September 5: At least 15 people have died in a new outbreak of the Ebola...

Nepal to block some social media including Facebook
Kathmandu [Nepal], September 5: Nepal said on Thursday it would block access to several social media platforms, including Facebook, after...

Portugal investigates crash on historic Lisbon funicular that...
Lisbon [Portugal], September 5: Portuguese authorities were investigating on Thursday what caused a Lisbon funicular railway popular with tourists to...

Malaysia pushes TikTok for age verification to protect...
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], September 5: Malaysia has urged the video-sharing platform TikTok to implement age verification for users after summoning...

US senators pit Kennedy against Trump on vaccine...
Washington [US], September 5: Democrats and Republicans pushed U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's Jr. on his recent vaccine policies...

Third quake strikes southeastern Afghanistan after series that...
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 5: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck southeastern Afghanistan on Thursday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences said,...

UN body finds US and UAE responsible for...
New York [US], September 5: A U.N. body has found that the United States and the United Arab Emirates are...

US trade deficit widens in July on soaring...
Washington [US], September 5: The US trade deficit widened sharply in July as record inflows of capital and other goods...

Congo declares new Ebola outbreak
Kinshasa [Democratic Republic of Congo], September 5: Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have declared an outbreak...

UN Security Council calls for Libyan-led, Libyan-owned political...
New York [US], September 5: The members of the UN Security Council called on Libyan institutional stakeholders to engage fully,...