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Indonesia starts cloud seeding to prevent forest fires

Indonesia starts cloud seeding to prevent forest fires

Jakarta [Indonesia], May 5: Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has started weather modification operations in Riau province to anticipate...

Emir of Kuwait receives written message from Emir of Qatar regarding regional, international developments

Emir of Kuwait receives written message from Emir...

Kuwait, May 5: His Highness Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait, received a letter from...

President El-Sisi emphasises Egypt's keenness on success of Arab Summit in Baghdad

President El-Sisi emphasises Egypt's keenness on success of...

Cairo [Egypt], May 5: President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt met with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the...

Hundred of tourists evacuated amid flash floods in Jordan's Petra

Hundred of tourists evacuated amid flash floods in...

Petra [Jordan], May 5: Jordan's Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority (PDTRA) evacuated hundreds of tourists from the ancient city...

Syrian security forces 'oversaw' armed civilians who killed Alawites

Syrian security forces 'oversaw' armed civilians who killed...

Damascus [Syria], May 5: One of the men accused of taking part in a wave of sectarian violence against Syria's...

NGO in talks with Malta to repair Gaza-bound aid ship

NGO in talks with Malta to repair Gaza-bound...

Gaza [Palestine], May 5: An international NGO that intends to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea said on Sunday...

Trump AI pope image 'wasn't good'- New York cardinal

Trump AI pope image 'wasn't good'- New York...

New York [US], May 5: U.S. Cardinal Timothy Dolan said on Sunday that President Donald Trump's posting of an AI-generated...

Starmer talks defence cooperation with Australia's re-elected Albanese

Starmer talks defence cooperation with Australia's re-elected Albanese

London [UK], May 5: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has congratulated Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese's election win in a phone...

Ceasefire with Russia possible at any moment

Ceasefire with Russia possible at any moment

Kiev [Ukraine] / Moscow [Russia], May 5: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that a ceasefire with Russia in...

Trump not considering running for third term

Trump not considering running for third term

New York [US], May 5: US President Donald Trump has denied that he is considering running for a third presidential...

Israel calls on Qatar to 'stop playing both sides' in Gaza talks

Israel calls on Qatar to 'stop playing both...

Tel Aviv [Israel], May 5: Israel called on Qatar, a key mediator between Israel and Hamas, to "stop playing both...

Pro-Kurdish MP and key peace negotiator Onder dies at 62

Pro-Kurdish MP and key peace negotiator Onder dies...

Istanbul [Turkey], May 5: Sirri Sureyya Onder, a prominent pro-Kurdish party lawmaker and key figure in Turkey's tentative process to...

Australia's reelected government says US-China tussle a top priority

Australia's reelected government says US-China tussle a top...

Sydney [Australia], May 5: Australia's government will prioritise dealing with the "dark shadow" of the U.S.-China trade war following its...

Houthis vow to continue targeting Israel's airport

Houthis vow to continue targeting Israel's airport

Aden [Yemen], May 5: Military spokesperson of Yemen's Houthi group Yayha Saree has called on international airlines to cancel flights...

Zelensky slams Russia for 'cynicism of highest order'

Zelensky slams Russia for 'cynicism of highest order'

Kiev [Ukraine] / Moscow [Russia], May 5: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday accused Moscow of cynicism, saying Russian attacks...

Planned attack on Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro foiled: Brazilian police

Planned attack on Lady Gaga concert in Rio...

Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], May 5: Police in Rio de Janeiro say they have stopped a planned attack on a...

President Trump says he doesn't know if he needs to uphold the US constitution

President Trump says he doesn't know if he...

Washington [US], May 5: US President Donald Trump apparently does not feel bound by the country's constitution. Asked whether he...

290,000 Gaza children on 'the brink of death' amid Israeli blockade

290,000 Gaza children on 'the brink of death'...

Gaza [Palestine], May 5: More than 3,500 children below the age of five years "face imminent death by starvation", Gaza's...

Singapore's ruling party PAP wins election in landslide

Singapore's ruling party PAP wins election in landslide

Singapore, May 5: Singapore's long-governing People's Action Party (PAP) has retained its strong grip on power in the city-state's general...

14 children arrested in England after boy dies in fire

14 children arrested in England after boy dies...

London [UK], May 5: Fourteen children aged between 11 and 14 have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after the...

Hamas releases video of hostage allegedly injured in Israeli attack on Gaza

Hamas releases video of hostage allegedly injured in...

Gaza border [Israel], May 4: The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released a new video on Saturday showing...

Cambodia encourages businesspeople, entrepreneurs, producers to participate in China-ASEAN Expo

Cambodia encourages businesspeople, entrepreneurs, producers to participate in...

Phnom Penh [Cambodia], May 4: Cambodia has encouraged businesspeople, entrepreneurs, investors and producers to participate in the 22nd China-ASEAN Expo...

New Zealand PM congratulates newly elected leaders of Australia, Singapore

New Zealand PM congratulates newly elected leaders of...

Wellington [New Zealand], May 4: New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon on Sunday congratulated Anthony Albanese and Lawrence Wong on...

War-torn Yemen's PM Ahmed bin Mubarak resigns amid economic hardships

War-torn Yemen's PM Ahmed bin Mubarak resigns amid...

Sanaa [Yemen], May 4: Yemen's Prime Minister Ahmed bin Mubarak said on Saturday he had resigned, a symbolic step signalling...

S Korea's conservative party picks presidential candidate

S Korea's conservative party picks presidential candidate

Seoul [South Korea], May 4: South Korea's main conservative party has nominated Kim Moon-soo, a former labour minister and veteran...

Driver released from custody after fatal crash in Germany

Driver released from custody after fatal crash in...

Berlin [Germany], May 4: The driver of an SUV that hit a group of people waiting at a tram stop...

Ukraine says it shot down Russian jet after Black Sea coast targeted

Ukraine says it shot down Russian jet after...

Kyiv [Ukraine], May 4: Ukraine said on Saturday it had shot down a Russian fighter jet near the Russian port...