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