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Italy plans prison crackdown that pushes Western boundaries

Italy plans prison crackdown that pushes Western boundaries

Rome [Italy], March 14: Prisoners in the northern Italian city of Parma are on hunger strike over poor sanitation and...

Chinese foreign minister to visit Australia next week

Chinese foreign minister to visit Australia next week

Beijing [China], March 14: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Australia next week, the Guardian reported, amid a thaw...

Philippines' Marcos to meet Blinken next week

Philippines' Marcos to meet Blinken next week

Mindanao [Philippines], March 14: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will meet U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on March 19...

Russia is ready for nuclear war: Putin

Russia is ready for nuclear war: Putin

Moscow [Russia], March 14: President Vladimir Putin told the West that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that...

Biden, Trump nominated for presidential rematch

Biden, Trump nominated for presidential rematch

Washington [US], March 14: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both clinched their parties' nomination on Tuesday, kicking...

UNRWA staff member killed, 22 wounded in Rafah warehouse strike

UNRWA staff member killed, 22 wounded in Rafah...

Gaza [Palestine], March 14: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said a member of staff was killed and 22 others...

Sixty people die in heavy rainfall, cold weather in Afghanistan

Sixty people die in heavy rainfall, cold weather...

Islamabad [Pakistan], March 14: Afghanistan has experienced heavy rainfall and cold weather over the past three weeks, resulting in at...

Close Alexei Navalny ally combative after brutal hammer attack in Lithuania

Close Alexei Navalny ally combative after brutal hammer...

Vilnius [Lithuania], March 14: Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, a close ally of the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who...

US: Georgia judge drops 6 charges in Trump interference case

US: Georgia judge drops 6 charges in Trump...

Georgia [US], March 14: A judge in the US state of Georgia dismissed some of the charges in the sweeping...

Berlin techno added to UNESCO cultural heritage list

Berlin techno added to UNESCO cultural heritage list

Berlin [Germany], March 14: UNESCO announced on Wednesday that it has added six new entries in Germany to the intangible...

European Parliament approves Artificial Intelligence Act

European Parliament approves Artificial Intelligence Act

Brussels [Belgium], March 14: The European Parliament on Wednesday approved the Artificial Intelligence Act that ensures safety and compliance...

EU's exports to USA at €502 billion in 2023

EU's exports to USA at €502 billion in...

Brussels [Belgium], March 14: In 2023, the EU exported €502 billion worth of goods to the United States while importing...

Global child deaths reach historic low in 2022: UN report

Global child deaths reach historic low in 2022:...

Geneva [Switzerland], March 14: The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping...

Online child sexual exploitation rates triple in Canada

Online child sexual exploitation rates triple in Canada

Ottawa [Canada], March 13: Canada's online child sexual exploitation rates more than tripled between 2014 and 2022, Statistics Canada...

Japan's Space One rocket explodes after lift-off: live footage

Japan's Space One rocket explodes after lift-off: live...

Tokyo [Japan], March 13: The inaugural rocket launch of Japanese company Space One failed on Wednesday as the Kairos...

Orban claims Trump won't 'give a penny' to Ukraine

Orban claims Trump won't 'give a penny' to...

Budapest [Hungary], March 13: Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has asserted former US president Donald Trump told him during a...

UK wants investigation into reports Gazan medical staff were beaten

UK wants investigation into reports Gazan medical staff...

London [UK], March 13: A full investigation must be carried out into reports that Gazan medical staff were beaten...

US strikes Houthi drones and missiles

US strikes Houthi drones and missiles

Washington [US], March 13: The US armed forces said that they carried out self-defence strikes against drones and missiles in...

NATO chief defends Ukraine's exports of long-range missiles

NATO chief defends Ukraine's exports of long-range missiles

Brussels [Belgium], March 13: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg defended Ukraine's right to defend itself and welcomed French and British...

Greece and Turkey ready to develop relations

Greece and Turkey ready to develop relations

Ankara [Turkey], March 13: Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Burak Akcapar held a meeting with his Greek counterpart, Alexandra Papadopoulou, in...

European Commission supports starting membership talks with Bosnia-Herzegovina

European Commission supports starting membership talks with Bosnia-Herzegovina

Strasbourg [France], March 13: The European Commission on Tuesday formally advised EU leaders to open talks with Bosnia-Herzegovina about joining...

Boeing whistleblower found dead of apparent suicide

Boeing whistleblower found dead of apparent suicide

South Carolina [US], March 13: John Barnett, a former Boeing (BA.N), opens a new tab.

Alexei Navalny ally attacked in Lithuania

Alexei Navalny ally attacked in Lithuania

Moscow [Russia], March 13: A long-time ally of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been attacked outside his...

Republican US Representative Ken Buck leaving Congress, blames dysfunction

Republican US Representative Ken Buck leaving Congress, blames...

Washington [US], March 13: Republican U.S. Representative Ken Buck will leave Congress at the end of next week, he said...

US, allies eye commercial maritime option for Gaza aid

US, allies eye commercial maritime option for Gaza...

Washington [US], March 13: The U.S. may urge partners and allies to fund a privately run operation to send aid...

US to send new weapons package worth $300 million for Ukraine

US to send new weapons package worth $300...

Washington [US], March 13: The United States will send a new military aid package for Ukraine worth $300 million, President...

David Cameron says BBC report into Nasser hospital raid 'very disturbing'

David Cameron says BBC report into Nasser hospital...

Gaza [Palestine], March 13: David Cameron has said the BBC report about Palestinian medical staff in Gaza being beaten and...