Body of missing Mongolian climber found
AFP : Rescuers found the body of one of two missing Mongolian climbers on Mount Everest on Friday, expedition organizers said, the first confirmed fatality...
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Putin for growing Moscow-Beijing trade in China’s northeast
Reuters : After sealing pledges of a “new era” of strategic partnership with China’s Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday is set to...
Slovakia PM in ‘very serious’ condition after being shot
Al Jazeera : Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is stable but his condition remains “very serious”, his deputy has said, after an assassination attempt that...
Top Asean officials meet Myanmar junta chief for ‘cooperation’ talks
AFP : Myanmar’s military chief has held talks with top Asean officials on the junta’s participation in the Southeast Asian regional bloc, from which it...
Indonesia raises alert for Ibu volcano
Reuters : Indonesia’s volcanology agency on Thursday raised the alert level of the Ibu volcano to the highest on its scale after recording six eruptions...
Israel PM says no humanitarian crisis as hundreds of thousands flee Rafah
AFP : Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday insisted there was no “humanitarian catastrophe” in Rafah, even as hundreds of thousands fled the south...
Israel will ‘set sights’ on Turkey if Hamas defeated: Erdogan
AFP : President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday claimed that Israel would “set its sights” on Turkey if it succeeded in defeating Hamas in the...
Russia escalates the war in Ukraine, aiming to complicate Kyiv’s defence
Aljazeera : Russia escalated its aggressive war in Ukraine psychologically, tactically and economically in the past week, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted,...
Any time, any place’: Biden and Trump agree to June debate
Aljazeera : United States President Joe Biden and his Republican challenger Donald Trump have agreed to a CNN-hosted debate in late June, the US media...
China-Russia relations: What is Xi Jinping prepared to pay for Putin’s war?
BBC : More than two years into his invasion of Ukraine, China has emerged as a vital ally. It has refused to condemn the war...