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AFP :The world’s chemical weapons watchdog voted Thursday to curb chemical exports to Syria, accusing Damascus of violating its toxic arms control treaty.Syria agreed in 2013 to join the Organisation for the Prohibition of...
AFP :A mine blast and ambush killed at least 11 civilians in eastern Iraq, two security officials said, in an attack which the provincial governor blamed on jihadists.The attack, in Diyala province, occurred on...
AFP :Iranian delegates walked out of UN climate talks in the United Arab Emirates on Friday in protest over the presence of Israeli representatives, state media reported.The Iranian side considered Israel’s presence at COP28...
AFP :Cellphones will be banned in schools across New Zealand, conservative Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Friday, as his fledgling government looks to turn around the country’s plummeting literacy rates.New Zealand’s schools once boasted...
AFP :Britain’s King Charles III is praying that the UN’s COP28 climate talks will be a “critical turning point” in the fight against global warming, he told world leaders in Dubai on Friday.“I pray...
AFP :More than two million people across the Horn of Africa have been forced from their homes by torrential rains and floods, according to an AFP tally compiled Thursday from government and UN figures.Almost...
AFP :Kazakhstan said Thursday that at least 13 people were killed in a fire that broke out at dawn in a hostel in the Central Asian country’s largest city Almaty.The victims most likely suffocated...
AFP :Japan’s coastguard said late Thursday that there was still no sign of seven missing US Air Force personnel whose Osprey crashed during a training exercise, in the latest incident involving the tilt-rotor aircraft.One...
AFP :North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister on Thursday dismissed international condemnation of Pyongyang’s recent spy satellite launch as “absurd”, saying her country would never relinquish its space programme.Kim Yo Jong’s statement...
Al Jazeera :Three people have been killed and several wounded after two gunmen opened fire at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Israeli police said. The attackers were also killed.Police said 16...
Reuters : Hamas freed 12 more hostages and Israel released 30 Palestinian captives on Tuesday, the fifth day of an extended six-day truce between the fighter Palestinian group and Israel in the Gaza war....
