British police probe new Novichok nerve agent case
AFP :British police scrambled on Thursday to determine how a couple were exposed to the same nerve agent used on a former Russian spy earlier...
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Inside Qatar’s charm offensive to win over Washington
Reuters, Washington :There was much bonhomie as a few dozen people, including members of Congress and U.S. administration officials, gathered last week for dinner in...
Polish Supreme Court’s top judge defies ‘purge’
AFP : Poland’s Supreme Court chief justice showed up at work on Wednesday in defiance of a retirement law pushed through by the right-wing government...
Rescuers vow to take ‘no risks’ in evacuation of Thai cave boys
AFP : Thai rescuers vowed to take a “no risk” approach to freeing 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave, as fresh...
9 dead, dozens injured in road accident in Kenya
Reuters, Nairobi : Nine people were killed and dozens injured when a bus and truck collided early on Wednesday on a busy highway southeast of...
Turkey transfers some powers to president
Reuters, Istanbul : Turkey issued a decree on Wednesday transferring some powers to the president, in line with its move to an executive presidential system...
Russia’s top diplomats to meet after Putin-Trump summit: Russian foreign minister
Reuters, Moscow : Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow and Washington had agreed that he would meet U.S. Secretary of State...
Tehran to remain in N deal if its benefits are guaranteed: Rouhani
Reuters, Vienna : Iran will remain in its 2015 nuclear deal only if its benefits are guaranteed by other signatories after the United States withdrew...
Israeli forces wound scores of women in Gaza rally
Al Jazeera News :At least 134 Palestinians have been wounded by Israeli gunfire as thousands of Palestinian women demonstrated along the heavily fortified fence with...
Found alive on 10th day, Thai boys’ cave ordeal not over as rain threatens
Reuters, Chiang Rai : Rescuers raced to pump water from a cave in northern Thailand on Tuesday as forecasted heavy rain threatened to complicate efforts to...
Kremlin critic urges Trump to raise prisoners issue with Putin
AFP, Geneva : A fierce opponent of the Kremlin urged US President Donald Trump Monday to avoid accommodating his Russian counterpart during an upcoming summit, and...
China aims to outstrip NASA with super powerful rocket
AFP, Beijing :China is working on a super-powerful rocket that would be capable of delivering heavier payloads into low orbit than NASA, a leading Chinese...