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Agencies : Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang, one of the most influential scientists in modern physics, died in Beijing on Saturday. He was 103. The prestigious Tsinghua University, where he studied and...
Agencies : Myanmar’s ruling junta said Saturday that it had recaptured a town on a trade highway to China from an ethnic armed group in the country’s war-wracked north. Following a 16-day operation, “on...
Agencies : Peru’s government on Friday suspended the police chief of the capital Lima after violent anti-government protests which left one person dead and over 100 injured, according to a statement seen by AFP....
AFP : An explosion at a chemical plant in southern Russia has killed three people, the regional governor said Saturday without giving the cause of the blast. The Avangard factory, located in the Bashkortostan...
Agencies : Thousands of residents of the Philippines left their homes along the Pacific coast Saturday as weather experts warned of coastal flooding ahead of Tropical Storm Fengshen’s landfall. The storm was forecast to...
NN ONLINE: For the first time in months, Bassil Naggar can sleep peacefully, no longer startled awake by the thunder of Israeli airstrikes. Although the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has brought a...
NN ONLINE: Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday to make a deal with Russia, pouring cold water on Kyiv’s hopes for Tomahawk missiles as the US leader renews a push...
NN ONLINE: Afghan officials claimed Friday that Pakistan carried out airstrikes in southeastern Afghanistan shortly after a two-day ceasefire between the neighboring nations expired. According to Mohammadullah Amini Mawia, a police spokesperson in...
AFP : A ceasefire along the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan was holding on Thursday, officials on both sides said, after dozens of troops and civilians were killed in cross-border clashes. In Spin Boldak,...
Reuters : At least one person was killed and dozens of police officers injured in widespread protests overnight in Peru against President Jose Jeri, who assumed power just days ago, the state ombudsman’s office...
Agencies : A car belonging to one of Italy’s leading investigative journalists exploded outside his home overnight, prompting an investigation by Italy’s anti-Mafia authorities and condemnation Friday from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and others....
AP : China’s second-highest ranking general and eight other senior officials were expelled from the ruling Communist Party and the military on suspicion of serious official misconduct linked to corruption, the Defense Ministry said...