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Indonesian president declares operation of Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway

Indonesian president declares operation of Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway

Jakarta [Indonesia], October 2: Indonesian President Joko Widodo declared the official operation of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) at Halim...

Iraq investigators blame fatal wedding fire on ignored safety rules

Iraq investigators blame fatal wedding fire on ignored...

Cairo [Egypt], October 2: Investigators in Iraq say a fire that killed more than a hundred people at a wedding...

Top EU diplomat is counting on continued US aid to Ukraine

Top EU diplomat is counting on continued US...

Kyiv [Ukraine], October 2: EU foreign policy chief JosepBorrell is counting on the United States to continue security assistance to...

Coalition talks loom after win for former Slovak PM Fico

Coalition talks loom after win for former Slovak...

Bratislava [Slovakia], October 2: Slovakia's former prime minister Robert Fico and his left-wing nationalist party have won the country's parliamentary...

UN mission visits Karabakh, first in 30 years

UN mission visits Karabakh, first in 30 years

Lachin[Azerbaijan], October 2: A United Nations mission visited Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijan said, after almost the entire ethnic-Armenian population fled...

Erdogan defiant after PKK attack

Erdogan defiant after PKK attack

Ankara [Turkey], October 2: Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan said Sunday that "terrorists" will never achieve their aims, hours after a...

McCarthy vows to survive ouster threat for avoiding shutdown

McCarthy vows to survive ouster threat for avoiding...

Washington [US], October 2: Top U.S. House Republican Kevin McCarthy said he expected to survive a threat to his speakership...

Swiss trial acquits man who admitted abducting Belarus politicians

Swiss trial acquits man who admitted abducting Belarus...

Geneva [Switzerland], October 2: YuryGaravsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent...

Spain: Nightclub fire kills 13 in Murcia

Spain: Nightclub fire kills 13 in Murcia

Murcia[Spain], October 2: At least 13 people have died in a fire that engulfed three nightclubs in the south-eastern Spanish...

Mourners hail dead Russian mercenary Prigozhin as hero of the people

Mourners hail dead Russian mercenary Prigozhin as hero...

Moscow [Russia], October 2: At memorials to Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in an unexplained plane crash exactly 40 days...

Nigeria's President Tinubu increases wages as national strike looms

Nigeria's President Tinubu increases wages as national strike...

Abuja [Nigeria], October 2: Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has announced a six-month increase to the minimum wage as workers are...

Attackers set off bomb at Turkish government building, both die

Attackers set off bomb at Turkish government building,...

Ankara [Turkey], October 2: Two attackers detonated a bomb in front of Turkish government buildings in Ankara this morning, leaving...

House of Wisdom and King Faisal Centre sign MoU to organise exhibition of rare manuscripts in Sharjah

House of Wisdom and King Faisal Centre sign...

Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], October 2: The House of Wisdom (HoW) in Sharjah signed a cooperation agreement with the King Faisal...

Scottish companies set to showcase world-leading energy transition innovations at ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi

Scottish companies set to showcase world-leading energy transition...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], October 2: Twenty-four innovative Scottish companies will showcase Scotland's outstanding strengths in delivering energy transition at this...

ADIPEC Awards 2023: Recognising changemakers transforming energy industry

ADIPEC Awards 2023: Recognising changemakers transforming energy industry

Abu Dhabi [UAE], October 2: A coveted recognition for the energy industry, the ADIPEC Awards is an important part of...

UAE President holds phone call with Turkish President

UAE President holds phone call with Turkish President

Abu Dhabi [UAE], October 2: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan held a telephone call with...

Iran sends oil tankers abroad under U.S. eyes: deputy minister

Iran sends oil tankers abroad under U.S. eyes:...

Tehran [Iran],October 1: Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Morteza Shahmirzaei said on Saturday Iran sends its oil tankers to other countries...

Japan forbids stealth advertising with new regulation

Japan forbids stealth advertising with new regulation

Tokyo [Japan], October 1: The Japanese government started to forbid stealth marketing, a practice in which companies promote their products...

Tens of thousands attend climate justice protest in Switzerland

Tens of thousands attend climate justice protest in...

Geneva [Switzerland], October 1: In the Swiss city of Bern, tens of thousands of people took to the streets on...

French government avoids 18th vote of no confidence: Parliament

French government avoids 18th vote of no confidence:...

Paris [France], October 1: The lower house of the French parliament said on Saturday it had dismissed a no-confidence motion...

Putin vows to rebuild occupied Ukraine as part of Russia

Putin vows to rebuild occupied Ukraine as part...

Moscow [Russia], October 1: On the first anniversary of Russia's annexation of the four Ukrainian regions of Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk...

Kosovo demands Serbia withdraw troops from border

Kosovo demands Serbia withdraw troops from border

Pristina [Kosovo], October 1: Kosovo on Saturday demanded that Serbia withdraw its troops from their common border, saying it was...

Climate change means New York City's flooding is 'new normal

Climate change means New York City's flooding is...

New York [US], October 1: Torrential downpours that caused flash flooding in New York City on Friday reflect a "new...

US Congress avoids government shutdown in last-minute deal

US Congress avoids government shutdown in last-minute deal

Washington [US], October 1: The US government has avoided a federal shutdown after both House and Senate agreed on a...

Musk slams German-funded migrants rescue Med operations

Musk slams German-funded migrants rescue Med operations

Berlin [Germany], October 1: Billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday waded into German politics at a time of a heated debate...

Indonesian families face trauma, threats year after stadium crush

Indonesian families face trauma, threats year after stadium...

Malang[Indonesia], October 1: Holding buckets of water, Cholifatul Nur sprinkles flowers planted at her young son's grave and wipes clean...

Malta summit urges EU to stop migration at source

Malta summit urges EU to stop migration at...

Mdina[Malta], October 1: The leaders of nine Mediterranean and southern European countries called Friday for a "significant increase" in the...