Two vessels of the United Arab Emirates were attacked while transiting the Strait of Hormuz last evening. In a statement posted on social media, the UAE Ministry of Foreign...
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Millions across Europe swelter through a new wave of extreme temperatures.
Repeat heatwaves and drought have fuelled a historically hot summer of wildfires, and contributed to the deaths of thousands of people. Millions of people across Europe, particularly in France,...
A Singapore court barred Pritam Singh, the chief of the main opposition party, from practising law following his criminal conviction for lying under oath to a parliamentary committee. The...
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Britain not equipped to deal fifth heat wave with mercury rising to 38 degrees Celsius.
Large parts of western Europe are reeling under sweltering heat as Britain is poised for its fifth heat wave of an exceptional summer that is expected to be the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin today, for the first time, visited the Kuril Islands, a Russian-controlled Pacific island chain also claimed by Japan, in a move that drew a protest...
A terrorism monitoring team of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has declared the deadly Red Fort suicide car bombing in Delhi that killed 11 people the work of...
China and Russia have reaffirmed their support for India’s BRICS presidency this year, as New Delhi chairs the grouping for the fourth time. Chinese Ambassador to India Xu Feihong...
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Bangladesh. BNP nominates its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul as presidential candidate.
The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) today nominated its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as its candidate for the country’s presidency. The presidential election will be held on...
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi today rejected US President Donald Trump’s claim that Washington has total control over the Strait of Hormuz. In a social media post, Mr....
A former US Marine, Robert Gilman, who had been imprisoned by Russia for over four years, has been freed on humanitarian grounds and is due to return home after...