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UAE not leaving war-torn Yemen despite drawdownAFP, DubaiThe United Arab Emirates, part of a Saudi-led military coalition, is not leaving war-torn Yemen despite an ongoing...
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‘South Korea fired hundreds of shots at Russian jet in its airspace’
Reuters, Seoul :South Korean warplanes fired hundreds of warning shots at a Russian military aircraft that entered South Korean airspace on Tuesday, defence officials in...
Airstrikes kill 50 civilians in Syria’s northwest
AFP, Maaret al-Numan (Syria) : Regime and Russian air strikes killed 50 people in northwest Syria on Monday, most of them in a crowded market, a...
Trump praises Pakistan’s role in ‘progress’ on Afghan peace
President Donald Trump on Monday hailed Pakistan’s help in advancing peace talks in Afghanistan, a marked shift in tone as the United States seeks an...
Iran to meet with nuclear partners amid tanker crisis
AFP, Tehran :Iran said Tuesday it will attend an urgent meeting with countries still party to the troubled nuclear deal, as it declared itself the...
India launches historic bid to put spacecraft on Moon
AFP :India launched a bid to become a leading space power Monday, sending up a rocket to put a craft on the surface of the...
Britain holds crisis talks after Iran seizes tanker
AFP :British Prime Minister Theresa May convened an emergency meeting of ministers and security officials on Monday to discuss how to respond after Iran seized...
Israeli forces surround demolition-threatened Palestinian homes
AFP . Jerusalem :Israeli forces surrounded a number of Palestinian homes it considers illegal south of Jerusalem early Monday, an AFP journalist saw, ahead of...
Zelensky party heads for absolute majority in Ukraine
AFP :Ukraine’s comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelensky is set to control an absolute majority in parliament, ushering in a generational shift in the ex-Soviet country’s political arena.The...
UK leadership favourite Johnson hits more turmoil on last voting day
AFP :Britain’s leadership contest entered its finale Monday with the favourite Boris Johnson facing more defections from ministers over his Brexit plan.The month-long contest between...
Anger soars over vicious mob attack on Hong Kong protesters
AFP :Anger soared in Hong Kong on Monday over a vicious assault on pro-democracy protesters by suspected triad gangsters that left dozens wounded, a dramatic...
Hong Kong on security alert as thousands march in fresh wave of protests
Reuters, Hong Kong: Tens of thousands marched in sweltering heat in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong on Sunday as anti-government protests show no signs of let-up, with...