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Cameroon opposition's Tchiroma claims election victory

Cameroon opposition's Tchiroma claims election victory

Yaounde [Cameroon], October 15: Cameroon opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma declared victory late in the country's October 12 presidential election, urging...

U.S Justice Department confirms Meta deletes Facebook page

U.S Justice Department confirms Meta deletes Facebook page

New York [US], October 15: The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday that Meta (META.O), opens new tab had complied...

Nations pledge funds for Gaza's $70bn reconstruction, says UN

Nations pledge funds for Gaza's $70bn reconstruction, says...

Gaza [Palestine], October 15: European and Arab nations, Canada and the U.S. appear willing to contribute to the estimated $70...

Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings

Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover...

Damascus [Syria], October 15: The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one...

Israel limits Gaza aid, keeps border closed as Hamas regains control

Israel limits Gaza aid, keeps border closed as...

Jerusalem [Israel], October 15: Israel restricted aid into Gaza and kept the enclave's border shut on Tuesday while re-emergent Hamas...

PowerSchool hacker sentenced to four years for data theft, extortion

PowerSchool hacker sentenced to four years for data...

New York [US], October 15: A Massachusetts man who breached the network of education software provider PowerSchool to steal data...

French PM Lecornu suspends Macron's pension reform

French PM Lecornu suspends Macron's pension reform

Paris [France], October 15: French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has postponed President Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reform, delaying the planned...

Racism allegations overshadow exploratory Czech coalition talks

Racism allegations overshadow exploratory Czech coalition talks

Prague [Czech Republic], October 15: Exploratory talks on a future government in the Czech Republic are being overshadowed by serious...

Explosion at farmhouse during police raid kills three officers in Italy

Explosion at farmhouse during police raid kills three...

Rome [Italy], October 15: A large-scale operation to enforce the eviction of a farmhouse in the small northern Italian town...

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for role in Gaza ceasefire

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for role in Gaza...

Washington [US], October 15: Former Democratic presidents Joe Biden and Bill Clinton on Monday praised US President Donald Trump for...

Russia strikes Kharkiv hospital, UN convoy as Ukraine seeks US Tomahawks

Russia strikes Kharkiv hospital, UN convoy as Ukraine...

Moscow [Russia], October 15: Russian forces have struck a hospital and a United Nations convoy in Ukraine, officials say, in...

Tens of thousands rally in Brussels to protest austerity measures

Tens of thousands rally in Brussels to protest...

Brussels [Belgium], October 15: A general strike against proposed austerity measures in Belgium has grounded flights and halted public transport...

Torrential rains collapse Venezuelan gold mine killing at least 14

Torrential rains collapse Venezuelan gold mine killing at...

Caracas [Venezuela], October 15: At least 14 people have died after torrential rainfall led to the collapse of a Venezuelan...

Zelensky revokes Ukrainian citizenship of Odessa mayor Trukhanov

Zelensky revokes Ukrainian citizenship of Odessa mayor Trukhanov

Kyiv [Ukraine], October 15: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stripped the mayor of the port city of Odessa, Gennadiy Trukhanov,...

Prominent Iranian filmmaker Nasser Taghvaei dies

Prominent Iranian filmmaker Nasser Taghvaei dies

Tehran [Iran], October 15: The prominent and highly controversial Iranian filmmaker Nasser Taghvai has died at the age of 84...

Iranian court hands long prison terms to 2 French nationals

Iranian court hands long prison terms to 2...

Tehran [Iran], October 15: An Iranian court has sentenced two French citizens to long prison terms for alleged espionage for...

Recognising Palestinian state helped bring peace to Gaza, says Starmer

Recognising Palestinian state helped bring peace to Gaza,...

London [UK], October 15: Recognising a Palestinian state helped to bring about peace in Gaza, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer...

Madagascar's army seizes power after protests against president

Madagascar's army seizes power after protests against president

Nairobi [Kenya], October 15: Madagascar's military said on Tuesday it has seized power following weeks of protests against the fugitive...

Israel hands over bodies of 45 Palestinians

Israel hands over bodies of 45 Palestinians

Gaza City [Gaza], October 15: Israel has handed over the bodies of 45 Palestinians as part of an agreement with...

Gaza ceasefire tested as Israeli forces kill five Palestinians

Gaza ceasefire tested as Israeli forces kill five...

Gaza City [Gaza], October 15: At least five Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza City, medical...

Dozens killed in Pakistan-Afghanistan clashes, border closed

Dozens killed in Pakistan-Afghanistan clashes, border closed

Kabul [Afghanistan], October 14: Dozens of fighters were killed in overnight border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan, both sides said...

Netanyahu absent from Egypt-led Gaza conflict summit

Netanyahu absent from Egypt-led Gaza conflict summit

Jerusalem [Israel], October 14: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not attend Monday's summit on ending the Gaza war in...

Heavy rains flood Mexico towns, leave nearly 130 dead or missing

Heavy rains flood Mexico towns, leave nearly 130...

Mexico, October 14: Torrential rains that lashed Mexico last week killed at least 64 people and 65 more are missing,...

Israel releases Palestinian prisoners under U.S brokered ceasefire

Israel releases Palestinian prisoners under U.S brokered ceasefire

Jerusalem [Israel], October 14: Joyous Palestinians rushed to embrace prisoners freed under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement as they arrived by...

Imprisoned Cuban dissident goes into exile in US

Imprisoned Cuban dissident goes into exile in US

Havana [Cuba], October 14: One of Cuba's best known dissidents went into exile from prison, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said,...

Madagascar's president has left the country after Gen Z protests

Madagascar's president has left the country after Gen...

Antananarivo [Madagascar], October 14: Madagascar's president Andry Rajoelina has fled the African nation, the head of the opposition, a military...

Arab Parliament welcomes outcomes of 'Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit'

Arab Parliament welcomes outcomes of 'Sharm El-Sheikh Peace...

Cairo [Egypt], October 14: Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Yammahi, President of the Arab Parliament, welcomed the outcomes of the Sharm...