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Egypt to host high-level Arab meeting on Palestinian...
Cairo [Egypt], February 1: The Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that foreign ministers from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar,...

4 IS militants killed in airstrikes in central...
Baghdad [Iraq], February 1: Four Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Friday in airstrikes on their hideout in central...

U.S. 15-year air safety streak comes to end:...
New York [US], February 1: The United States' streak of more than 15 years without a major fatal airline crash...

Canada announces deferral in implementing capital gains tax...
Ottawa [Canada], February 1: The Canadian Minister of Finance Dominic LeBlanc announced on Friday that the federal government is deferring...

Canada deploys investigators to Washington for midair collision...
Ottawa [Canada], February 1: Canada has sent a team of investigators following a midair collision accident in Washington, D.C. involving...

OpenAI launches "reasoning" model o3-mini
San Francisco [US], February 1: OpenAI on Friday launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) "reasoning" model o3-mini.

U.S. stocks slump after Trump commits to impose...
New York [US], February 1: U.S. stocks dived on Friday, after the White House confirmed that tariffs on Mexico and...

Small plane crashes in Philadelphia
New York [US], February 1: A small plane crashed in a neighborhood of northeast Philadelphia on Friday, sparking a...

UN forms task force to coordinate war debris...
New York [US], February 1: International organisations and donor entities have begun assessing aid plans, funding programmes and development initiatives...

UN appeals for $500 million to address global...
Geneva [Switzerland], February 1: Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has launched an appeal to raise $500...

'Gazans depend on us for sheer survival', insists...
Geneva [Switzerland], February 1: UNRWA said on Friday that its staff are still providing aid to the people of Gaza...

Norway seizes ship suspected of sabotaging submarine cables...
Oslo [Norway], February 1: According to Reuters, Norwegian police have detained a Norwegian ship at the request of Latvia on...

US fires dozens of FBI agents who investigated...
New York [US], February 1: CNN reported on February 1 that President Donald Trump's administration is about to lay off...

Trump may raise tariffs on China, Canada and...
New York [US], February 1: The US leader said he would increase import taxes to 25% on goods imported from...

Another plane crash causes many casualties in the...
New York [US], February 1: The incident occurred near Roosevelt Mall in northeast Philadelphia. The Learjet 55 crashed at around...

US limits helicopter flights after Washington crash, 41...
New York [US], February 1: U.S. authorities restricted helicopter flights near Reagan Washington National Airport indefinitely on Friday, after a...

Investigators find black boxes after deadly Washington plane...
New York [US], February 1: U.S. authorities said on Thursday it was not yet clear why a regional jet and...

Trump takes aim, without evidence, at diversity policies...
New York [US], February 1: President Donald Trump suggested without evidence on Thursday that the deadly midair collision of two...

Russia launches themed train to mark Chinese New...
Moscow [Russia], January 31: Moscow unveiled a themed metro train on Wednesday to mark the start of the Spring Festival,...

Belarus president approves resolution on border protection
Minsk [Belarus], January 31: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday approved a resolution on state border protection in 2025.

Italy's GDP grows 0.5 pct in 2024: ISTAT
Rome [Italy], January 31: Italy's economy sputtered into the final quarter of last year with expansion of just 0.5 percent...

Norwegian Centre Party quits coalition gov't over EU...
Helsinki [Finland], January 31: Norway's Centre Party announced on Thursday that it is leaving the coalition government due to its...

Romania faces surge in respiratory infections
Bucharest [Romania], January 31: Romania recorded 133,635 cases of acute respiratory infections and eight flu-related deaths in the week from...

NATO scrambles for drones that can survive the...
New York [US], January 31: In 2023, Mads Petersen, owner of Greenland-based startup Arctic Unmanned, sat in a car to...

Belgian airspace reopens after short closure over technical...
Brussels [Belgium], January 31: Belgian airspace reopened on Thursday after a closure lasting a little over an hour due to...

France's Le Pen condemns death threats against those...
Paris [France], January 31: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said those behind death threats against a judge and prosecutors...

Nicaragua's Ortega expands power
Managua [Nicaragua], January 31: Constitutional reforms proposed by Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega to further consolidate power by extending his control...