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S. Korea, U.S. to conduct Vigilant Storm air drills next week amid N.K. threats

S. Korea, U.S. to conduct Vigilant Storm air...

Seoul (South Korea), October 28: South Korea and the United States will hold major combined air drills, involving some 240...

Yoon says S. Korea has never provided lethal weapons to Ukraine

Yoon says S. Korea has never provided lethal...

Seoul (South Korea), October 28: South Korea has never provided lethal weapons to Ukraine, President Yoon Suk-yeol said Friday, after...

S. Korea to release vegetable, salt reserves amid price hikes

S. Korea to release vegetable, salt reserves amid...

Seoul (South Korea), October 28: South Korea plans to release its stockpile of vegetables and salt to cope with the...

Real estate speculation by foreigners on rise in S. Korea

Real estate speculation by foreigners on rise in...

Seoul (South Korea), October 28: South Korea will continue to look into suspicious real estate transactions by foreigners as a...

9 civilians killed in DRC fighting: UN

9 civilians killed in DRC fighting: UN

United Nations, October 28: UN peacekeepers joined the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) troops to protect villagers after rebel...

Security Council renews mandate of UN Verification Mission in Colombia

Security Council renews mandate of UN Verification Mission...

United Nations, October 28: The UN Security Council on Thursday decided to extend the mandate of the United Nations Verification...

U.S. stocks end mixed amid disappointing tech earnings

U.S. stocks end mixed amid disappointing tech earnings

New York (US), October 28: Wall Street's major indexes finished mixed on Thursday, weighed by weakness in tech-related stocks.

13 African countries report 6,883 monkeypox cases in 2022: Africa CDC

13 African countries report 6,883 monkeypox cases in...

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), October 28: , October 28: Some 13 African countries have reported 6,883 monkeypox cases since the start...

Ukrainian seaports ship 9 mln tons foodstuffs under grain deal

Ukrainian seaports ship 9 mln tons foodstuffs under...

Kiev (Ukraine), October 28: Ukraine's Black Sea ports have shipped 9 million tons of foodstuffs under a key grain deal...

Racial, ethnic disparities persist in U.S. outpatient COVID-19 treatment: CDC

Racial, ethnic disparities persist in U.S. outpatient COVID-19...

Washington (US), October 28: Racial and ethnic disparities persisted in outpatient COVID-19 treatment in the United States, according to a...

EU to provide Albania with 80 mln euros to tackle energy crisis

EU to provide Albania with 80 mln euros...

Tirana (Albania), October 28: The European Union (EU) will provide 80 million euros (79.7 million U.S. dollars) in grants to...

Iran calls for expanding trade ties with Belarus to counter Western sanctions

Iran calls for expanding trade ties with Belarus...

Tehran (Iran), October 28: Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad BaqerQalibaf said Thursday that Iran's expansion of economic and trade ties with...

U.S. dollar rises amid ECB decision, economic data

U.S. dollar rises amid ECB decision, economic data

New York (US), October 28: The U.S. dollar appreciated in late trading on Thursday as market participants parsed a key...

Majority of Australians unable to identify most endangered species: study

Majority of Australians unable to identify most endangered...

Canberra (Australia), October 28: A majority of Australians cannot identify the country's most endangered species, a study has found.

Inflation down to 9.7 pct in October in Zambia

Inflation down to 9.7 pct in October in...

Lusaka (Zambia), October 28: Year-on-year inflation in Zambia stood at 9.7 percent in October, down from 9.9 percent in...

Iraqi lawmakers approve al-Sudani's new cabinet lineup

Iraqi lawmakers approve al-Sudani's new cabinet lineup

Baghdad (Iraq), October 28: The Iraqi parliament on Thursday approved the new cabinet lineup and the government program presented by...

Japan's unemployment rate rises to 2.6 pct in September

Japan's unemployment rate rises to 2.6 pct in...

Tokyo (Japan), October 28: Japan's unemployment rate rose in September from the previous month, the government said in a report...

Iran blacklists European individuals, institutions for inciting violence

Iran blacklists European individuals, institutions for inciting violence

Tehran (Iran), October 27: Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday announced sanctions on a number of European individuals and institutions for...

Yoon wishes to give hope to people through televised economic meeting

Yoon wishes to give hope to people through...

Seoul (South Korea), October 27: President Yoon Suk-yeol said Thursday that he wishes to give hope to the people by...

N. Korean nuclear test would constitute a 'grave escalatory action': State Dept.

N. Korean nuclear test would constitute a 'grave...

Washington (US), October 27: A nuclear test by North Korea would constitute a "grave escalatory action" that will be met...

Aid for majority of largest group of refugees in West Africa threatened: UN

Aid for majority of largest group of refugees...

United Nations, October 27: A lack of funding threatens assistance for most of the 575,00 refugees in Chad, the largest...

Iran says ready for talks with Ukraine over claims of drone supplies to Russia

Iran says ready for talks with Ukraine over...

Tehran (Iran), October 27: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Wednesday rejected "baseless" claims of Iran's supplies of drones to...

Israel to exhibit for 1st time at Bahrain Airshow

Israel to exhibit for 1st time at Bahrain...

Jerusalem (Israel), October 27: Israel's aerospace and defense company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will exhibit at the 2022 Bahrain International...

U.S. stocks close mixed with disappointing big tech earnings

U.S. stocks close mixed with disappointing big tech...

New York (US), October 27: U.S. stocks finished mixed on Wednesday, driven by disappointing earnings reports from big tech companies.

New Serbian gov't headed by PM Brnabic sworn in

New Serbian gov't headed by PM Brnabic sworn...

Belgrade (Siberia), October 27: The Serbian parliament elected the new government led by Prime Minister Ana Brnabic here on Wednesday.

Macron promises solution to high inflation, strikes

Macron promises solution to high inflation, strikes

Paris (France), October 27: French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Wednesday to "never leave the French without a solution" in...

End of federal hospital funding for COVID-19 looming disaster: Australian medical association

End of federal hospital funding for COVID-19 looming...

Canberra (Australia), October 27: Top Australian medical bodies have warned that a planned change to the hospital funding model will...