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Nepal, China floods: Death toll rises to 633, nearly 3,000 missing
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Nepal flood death toll rises to 616: police
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US judge throws out confessions of alleged 9/11 mastermind: report
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10 shot during filming of rapper French Montana's music video in Miami
At least 10 people were injured in a shooting outside Miami during the filming of a music video by Moroccan-American rapper French Montana, police and US media said Friday.
6 January 2023
Flexible working hours are good for business: UN
Flexible working arrangements like those introduced during the Covid-19 crisis are not only good for employees but also boost productivity and potentially a business's bottom line, the United Nations said today..In its first report focusing on work-life balances, the UN's International Lab
6 January 2023
Mexican passenger plane caught in cartel crossfire
"That's an attack plane, Dad," said one of David Tellez's young children as they spotted Mexican military aircraft touching down alongside their Aeromexico passenger plane early on Thursday.
6 January 2023
Drug lord El Chapo's son arrested in Mexico
Ovidio Guzman, the son of infamous drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman, was arrested in northern Mexico on Thursday, authorities have confirmed.
6 January 2023
US in crisis amid once-in-a-century political standoff
The US House of Representatives plunged deeper into crisis Thursday as Republican favorite Kevin McCarthy failed again to win the speakership -- entrenching a three-day standoff that has paralyzed the lower chamber of Congress.
6 January 2023
UNSC members stress Al Aqsa Mosque status quo
UN Security Council members voiced concern on Thursday and stressed the need to maintain a status quo at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, days after Israel's new far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir briefly visited the site.
6 January 2023
Iran closes French institute to protest Khamenei cartoons
Iran yesterday announced the closure of a Tehran-based French Institute for Research in protest against cartoons of the Islamic republic’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei published by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The magazine printed
5 January 2023
German MPs, minister to visit Taiwan
Germany will send a high-ranking parliamentary delegation to Taiwan next week, an MP told AFP yesterday, followed by the first ministerial visit in two decades in moves certain to spark tensions with China. Deputies from the pro-business Free Democratic
5 January 2023
16-year-old Palestinian killed in WB
The Israeli army killed a Palestinian boy yesterday in the West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said, where armed clashes broke out between militants and Israeli forces.
5 January 2023
2022 confirmed as UK’s hottest year
The UK’s average temperature exceeded 10 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit) last year for the first time since records began -- a once-in-500 years event without man-made climate change.
5 January 2023
Row over Meghan - William knocked Harry to floor: report
Britain’s Prince Harry says in his much-awaited memoir that older brother and heir to the throne Prince William knocked him to the floor during a 2019 argument over Harry’s American wife Meghan, the Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday.
5 January 2023
US House speaker showdown: Deadlock deepens
The US House of Representatives had to adjourn until yesterday (Thursday) as bitter infighting within the Republican ranks continues to paralyze the chamber and prevent the election of a new speaker.
5 January 2023
Putin orders 36-hr Ukraine ceasefire
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday ordered a 36-hour ceasefire in Ukraine to run during Orthodox Christmas, a move that war-battered Kyiv swiftly branded as “hypocrisy”.
5 January 2023
Two years after US Capitol attack, police still seeking 350 suspects
Two years after the violent attack on the US Capitol by supporters of president Donald Trump, justice officials have arrested 950 suspects but are seeking some 350 more, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
5 January 2023
Peruvians clamor anew for president’s removal
After a fortnight-long break, Peruvians took to the streets again on Wednesday, blocking roads countrywide to demand the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, who took over from her ousted predecessor in December.
5 January 2023
UNSC to discuss Israeli minister’s Al-Aqsa visit
The UN Security Council was scheduled to meet yesterday to discuss the controversial visit to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound by an Israeli minister that has enraged Palestinians.
5 January 2023
Scholz under pressure for tanks to Kyiv after France move
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz faced renewed calls yesterday to deliver Leopard tanks long sought by Kyiv, after France became the first in the West to agree to supply light tanks to Ukraine.
5 January 2023
Oil rebounds
Oil rebounded on Thursday after posting the biggest two-day loss for the start of a year in three decades with the shutdown of a US fuel pipeline providing support, though economic concerns capped gains.
5 January 2023
Belarus Nobel Prize winner Bialiatski goes on trial
Jailed Nobel Prize winner Ales Bialiatski went on trial in Minsk yesterday in what supporters see as a bid to clamp down on Viasna, Belarus’s top rights group which he founded. Bialiatski, who was co-awarded last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, founded Viasna
5 January 2023
Putin orders 36-hr ceasefire in Ukraine over Orthodox Christmas
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a ceasefire in Ukraine over Orthodox Christmas, the Kremlin said on Thursday.
5 January 2023