Seven killed in Ireland petrol station blast: Police
BSS/AFP :Seven people have been killed in an explosion at a petrol station in County Donegal in Ireland’s northwest, police said on Saturday. mThe Garda...
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Nobel prize will give us ‘strength’, says Ukraine NGO head
Al Jazeera :The head of the Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), a Kyiv-based human rights organisation that was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize on...
IMF releases $1.3b in emergency aid for Ukraine
BSS :The International Monetary Fund announced Friday it will provide $1.3 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine through its new food crisis assistance program.The package...
Zelensky says Ukraine has retaken nearly 2,500 sq km in new counteroffensive
BSS/AFP :Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said that Ukrainian forces have recaptured nearly 2,500 square kilometres (965 square miles) of territory from Russia in...
US aims to hobble China’s chip industry with sweeping new rules
Al Jazeera :The Biden administration on Friday published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips...
WHO says it has no mechanism for announcing end of Covid-19 pandemic
BSS/AFP :The end of the novel coronavirus pandemic is “in sight,” but the World Health Organization (WHO) has no mechanism for announcing its end, according...
Nearly 200 dead in Niger floods
BSS :Flooding caused by heavy rains in the West African state of Niger has claimed nearly 200 lives and affected more than a quarter of...
God put you in power’, Putin told on 70th birthday
BSS :The head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill said Friday that Vladimir Putin’s reign over Russia had been mandated by God, congratulating the...
US targets ‘senior’ IS militants in Syria’s northeast: Centcom
BSS :American forces killed a “senior” member of the jihadist Islamic State group Thursday in a pre-dawn raid on northeastern Syria, the US military’s Central...
Iran rejects Mahsa Amini died from blows
Al Jazeera :The death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s “morality police” was not a result of being hit but due to...
EU leaders struggle for common response to energy crisis
BSS :EU leaders meeting in Prague on Friday looked to bridge divisions on how to tackle soaring energy prices as they grapple with the fallout...
At least 15 dead in separate Greece migrant boat sinking
BSS :Greece’s coastguard on Thursday said that it had recovered the bodies of 15 people in two separate migrant boat sinking, with several more feared...