IS claims responsibility for deadly Iran attack
Reuters :Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for two explosions in Iran that killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a memorial for top...
International
Iraq blames US-led coalition for deadly drone strike in Baghdad
Al Jazeera : Iraq’s government has accused the United States-led international coalition forces of carrying out a drone strike targeting an Iran-aligned paramilitary group in...
Biden and Trump make Jan 6 riot a political rallying cry
AP : Former President Donald Trump will spend Saturday’s third anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection on the campaign trail in Iowa, holding two rallies...
Swedish snow chaos leaves 1,000 vehicles trapped
BBC Online : People who got trapped in 1,000 vehicles in heavy snow for more than 24 hours have been evacuated, Swedish authorities say.Rescuers worked...
US to send top diplomats to Middle East as regional tensions spread
Al Jazeera : The United States is to engage in a renewed diplomatic push to calm tensions in the Middle East as the region teeters...
IDF strikes south Lebanon stoking fears of widening conflict
Al Jazeera : Several Hezbollah members have been killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon in one of the deadliest days for the Iran-aligned group...
China ‘tells story of Xinjiang’
Al Jazeera :Albanian-Canadian historian and journalist Olsi Jazexhi believed in early 2019 that reports about human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang)...
Japan quake toll rises
Al Jazeera :Japanese rescuers continue to search for survivors from Monday’s earthquake in Ishikawa prefecture as authorities warned heavy rain, landslides and repeated aftershocks could...
Who was Saleh al-Arouri?
Al Jazeera :A drone strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold, killed senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday.The drone hit a...
Satya Nadella is CNN Business’ CEO of the Year
CNN :It was the year of artificial intelligence, and no Big Tech company leaned into the trend like Microsoft. In 2023, the company’s CEO Satya...
Thailand and China to waive visa requirements from March
BBC : Thailand and China will permanently waive visa requirements for each other’s citizens from March, Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said. Thailand waived visas...
XpoSat: India launches space mission to study black holes
BBC :India’s space agency has successfully launched a rocket that is carrying an observatory which will study astronomical objects like black holes. It was launched...