Bird flu outbreaks strike Japan farms
AFP : Japanese authorities began culling some 50,000 chickens Sunday after a bird flu outbreak at a farm in the northern Iwate region.It is the...
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US plans $8b arms sale to Israel
BBC : The US Department of State has notified Congress of a planned $8bn (£6.4bn) arms sale to Israel, an American official has confirmed to...
Wars trigger record number of children
Deutsche Welle : More children than ever before are estimated to be living in conflict zones or forcibly displaced, the United Nations children’s agency Unicef...
Thousands in S Korea brave cold to protest for-against Yoon
Deutsche Welle : Thousands of protesters took to the snowed-in streets of South Korean capital, Seoul, on Sunday to rally both for and against the...
India flags concern China’s plan for world’s largest dam on Brahmaputra
Agency : India has expressed its concern over China’s plan to construct the world’s largest dam on the Brahmaputra, which is known as Yarlung-Tsangpo River...
China redoubling efforts to undermine democracy
UNB : Taiwan ‘s government says China is redoubling efforts to undermine confidence in the self-governing island’s democracy and close ties with the United States...
Hundreds of animals killed in Dallas fire
UNB : A fire that broke out at a shopping center in Dallas on Friday morning killed more than 500 animals, most of which were...
Syria’s FM to heads UAE, Qatar, Jordan to ‘build partnerships’
Al Jazeera : Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud shakes hands with Syria’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-ShaibaniSyrian Foreign Minister Asaad...
World’s oldest person dies at 116
Agency : Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said...
Trump to be sent over hush money case
BBC : A judge has ordered that Donald Trump will be sentenced on 10 January in his hush-money case in New York – less than...
China food market fire claims 8 live
Agency : A fire erupted at a food market in northern China on Saturday, resulting in the deaths of at least eight people and injuries...
Gaza family of 11 wiped out
Al Jazeera : A Palestinian family of 11 – including seven children – are among at least 28 Palestinians killed as the Israeli military’s intensified...