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At least 50 people were killed and 185 others injured in road accidents during the four-day Eid al-Fitr holiday beginning on April 10 across Afghanistan, the country's General Directorate of Traffic Police said Monday.A total of 102 road accidents occurred across Afghanistan in the period, killi...
A project led by the Australian research center ASTRO 3D has recently highlighted age as one of the most crucial drivers in how stars orbit within galaxies, suggesting that the arrangement of stars gets messier over time. In their study recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronom...
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After an eight-day voyage, a cargo ship loaded with 68 tonnes of mangosteens docked at the port of Qinzhou in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Having cleared customs swiftly, the fruits imported from Indonesia were transported to nearby provinces, as well as the Gua...
The Russian Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft, carrying an international crew of three cosmonauts, has successfully returned to Earth on Saturday.The spacecraft landed at 10:17 Moscow time (0717 GMT) on Saturday near the Kazakh city of Jezkazgan, bringing home Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, Belarusian space...
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Marking six months since the escalation of conflict in Gaza, a UN official on Friday briefed the Security Council, highlighting the severe humanitarian crisis and calling for urgent global response.“Six months of heartache and grief,” said Ramesh Rajasingham, director of the Coordination...
Tunisia's maritime guards rescued 1,335 undocumented immigrants during the past 24 hours from sinking boats after they foiled 31 illegal immigration attempts, the Tunisian National Guard announced in a statement on Thursday.The operations were carried out by National Guard units in the eastern p...
UN relief chief Martin Griffiths has released 12 million U.S. dollars to help Haitians affected by gang violence, said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Thursday.The funds from the world body's Central Emergency Response Fund will help provide food, water, prot...
The Russian Investigative Committee said on Friday that evidence shows a potential link between the deadly terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall near Moscow and the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine.In a statement issued on its Telegram channel, the committee noted that from the attackers...
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Nearly 1 million Bangladeshi people are projected to join the ranks of the moderately poor, who earn less than 3.65 U.S. dollars a day in purchasing power parity (PPP), said the World Bank in its Poverty Macro Update on Bangladesh.Released as part of the South Asia Development Update on Tuesday, the...
Israel's military said Wednesday that the result of a preliminary debrief into the killing of seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) workers by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza was the result of "a misidentification.""I want to be very clear -- the strike was not carried out with the intenti...
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday declared a state of disaster due to an El Nino-induced drought threatening food security in the country."The current agricultural season of 2023/2024 has not performed according to expectations due to the El Nino-induced drought. As a result,...
A total of 21 people were killed Wednesday in intense armed confrontations between Yemen's government forces and the Houthi group in the country's southern province of Lahj, said a military official. The military source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said ferocious armed confrontation...
Before entering the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, where the China Development Forum (CDF) 2024 was held, my colleague told me that it may prove impossible for us to find a seat, with a mixture of discontent and excitement in her voice.Her suspicion proved correct.Sitting on the carpet, I turned on my ...
Russia on Thursday vetoed a United Nations (UN) Security Council draft resolution extending the mandate of the Panel of Experts assisting the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Sanctions Committee.The U.S.-drafted resolution won the support of 13 of the 15 members of the Security Counc...
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said six of them were killed in Israeli dawn raids on locations in the countryside of Aleppo city in northern Syria, while a seventh was killed in an Israeli drone attack on a car on the main road between Bazourieh, a municipality, and Wadi Gilo in so...
Israel is ready to send delegations to Qatar and Egypt for negotiations on a Gaza ceasefire deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement on Friday.After speaking with David Barnea, head of the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency, and Ronen Bar, chief of the interna...
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has launched its strategic vision for regional security in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, said the GCC General Secretariat in a statement on Friday. The vision highlights the coordination of positions among the GCC countries towards regional and international issues ...
India's forex exchange (forex) reserves rose by 139 million U.S. dollars to 642.631 billion dollars during the week ending on March 22, data released by the country's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), showed on Friday.This was the fifth straight week when India's forex reser...
UN humanitarians said on Thursday they continue to deliver aid, with their partners, to Haitians despite the upsurge in deadly gang violence that even targets schools and health facilities."Our response continues even as the situation on the ground remains tense and volatile," said the UN ...
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and visiting United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday voiced complete rejection of the displacement of Palestinians from their territories and any Israeli military operation in the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah.During their talks in ...
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