Riyadh hosts Arab, EU diplomats for talks
AFP : Top diplomats from the Middle East and Europe arrived in the Saudi capital on Sunday to discuss Syria, as world powers push for...
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Trump calls California leaders ‘incompetent’ over fire response
AFP : US President-elect Donald Trump accused California officials on Sunday of incompetence over their handling of deadly wildfires raging around Los Angeles.“The fires are...
Israel bombs Gaza school, sends top officials to truce talks in Qatar
Agency : An Israeli strike on a school sheltering forcibly displaced Palestinians in north Gaza’s Jabalia has killed at least eight people, including children.Israel’s Prime...
4 bodies recovered from flooded India coal mine
AFP : Indian search and rescue teams had recovered four bodies from a flooded coal mine by Saturday evening, days after gushing waters inundated the...
N Korean troops in Ukraine gain battlefield experience
UNB : Ukrainian forces have been confronting an unfamiliar enemy on the battlefield: North Korean soldiers deployed to support Russia. Their arrival, following a summer...
5 Bangladeshi officials withdrawn from foreign missions
NN Online: Five Bangladeshi officials stationed in missions in Pakistan, Malaysia, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Japan have been withdrawn and instructed to return home....
Restaurant fire claims 6 lives in Czech Republic
NN Online: A devastating fire at a restaurant in northern Czech Republic claimed six lives and left six others seriously injured, authorities confirmed on Sunday....
Why wildfires are becoming faster-more furious
BBC : It was terrible timing. In the late morning of Tuesday 6 January, a “life-threatening and destructive” windstorm was heading for the northern suburbs...
Will Iran build nuclear bomb while Trump in power ?
Al Jazeera : Donald Trump’s second term as president of the United States promises Iran a rocky road that could lead to different outcomes when...
Surreal finish to Trump’s historic criminal trial
AFP : It was, by many measures, a trial like New York had definitely seen before — a panel of citizen jurors finding a real...
Free-meal programme to combat stunting
AFP : Indonesia launched an ambitious $4.3 billion free-meal programme on Monday to combat stunted growth due to malnutrition, a key election promise of President...
Gaza death toll 40pc higher than recorded
AFP : Research published in The Lancet medical journal on Friday estimates that the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of the...