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Austria sees economic contraction in Q2

Austria sees economic contraction in Q2

Vienna [Austria], September 2:Austria's gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 1.1 percent in real terms year on year in the...

U.S. anti-drug trafficking strategy "very misguided," says Mexican president

U.S. anti-drug trafficking strategy "very misguided," says Mexican...

Mexico City [Mexico], September 2: The United States has adopted a "very misguided" strategy to fight drug trafficking at home...

Growing drought, wildfires impact Canada's Q2 economy

Growing drought, wildfires impact Canada's Q2 economy

Ottawa [Canada], September 2: Canada's real gross domestic product (GDP) by industry was essentially unchanged in the second quarter of...

Gold rises on cooling U.S. job data

Gold rises on cooling U.S. job data

Chicago [US], September 2: Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose on Friday as...

6.1-magnitude quake hits 13 km ENE of Severo-Kurilsk, Russia: USGS

6.1-magnitude quake hits 13 km ENE of Severo-Kurilsk,...

Moscow [Russia], September 2: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted 13 km ENE of Severo-Kurilsk, Russia at 20:49:54...

5 killed as elevator crashes in Indonesia's Bali

5 killed as elevator crashes in Indonesia's Bali

Jakarta [Indonesia], September 2: At least five people were killed after an elevator at a resort hotel crashed on the...

100 years on, victims of 1923 earthquake massacre commemorated in Japan

100 years on, victims of 1923 earthquake massacre...

Tokyo [Japan], September 2: A ceremony has been held in Tokyo to commemorate the victims of a massacre in which...

Myanmar exports over 59,000 tons of rice, broken rice in August

Myanmar exports over 59,000 tons of rice, broken...

Yangon [Myanmar], September 2: Myanmar exported 59,971 tons of rice and broken rice in August, according to data released by...

1 killed, 2 injured in armed attack in east Myanmar

1 killed, 2 injured in armed attack in...

Yangon [Myanmar], September 2: One villager was killed and two others injured in an ethnic armed group attack in eastern...

Iran's draft hijab law may amount to 'gender apartheid': UN experts

Iran's draft hijab law may amount to 'gender...

Geneva [Switzerland], September 2: A draft law in Iran ordering new penalties for women not wearing a headscarf in public...

US to continue deporting Haitians

US to continue deporting Haitians

Washington [US], September 2: The United States will continue deporting Haitian migrants back to their country.

Abortion rights center stage in Democrats' 2024 US election campaign

Abortion rights center stage in Democrats' 2024 US...

Washington [US], September 2: Abortion rights helped Democrats stave off a hefty defeat at midterm elections last year and the...

Dubai Holding's iconic 19.28-metre Hatta Sign breaks Guinness World Records title for 'The Tallest Landmark Sign'

Dubai Holding's iconic 19.28-metre Hatta Sign breaks Guinness...

Dubai [UAE], September 2: Dubai Holding's iconic Hatta Sign has garnered international acclaim by breaking the Guinness World Records title...

UAE President receives Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Kuwait

UAE President receives Deputy Prime Minister and Minister...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], September 2: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan received Sheikh Ahmad Fahad Al-Ahmad...

Abdullah bin Zayed congratulates Tuggar on his appointment as Nigeria's Foreign Minister

Abdullah bin Zayed congratulates Tuggar on his appointment...

Abu Dhabi [UAE],September 2: H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, congratulated Yusuf Tuggar on his...

Warmer, drier spring forecast with higher bushfire risks in Australia

Warmer, drier spring forecast with higher bushfire risks...

Canberra [Australia], September 1: Most of Australia is likely to brace for a drier and warmer spring, which may raise...

5 injured in hospital bomb blast in Myanmar's Mandalay

5 injured in hospital bomb blast in Myanmar's...

Yangon [Myanmar], September 1: Five people were injured on Thursday in a hospital bomb blast in Myanmar's second largest city...

EU FMs stress diplomacy amid Niger coup fallout

EU FMs stress diplomacy amid Niger coup fallout

Washington [US], September 1: EU foreign ministers in the Spanish city of Toledo stressed the value of democracy on Thursday...

Fire guts house-turned-factory in Philippines, killing 16

Fire guts house-turned-factory in Philippines, killing 16

Manila [Philippines], September 1: Sixteen people were killed in a fire that swept through a two-storey house converted into a...

Indonesia's tropical glacier melting rapidly

Indonesia's tropical glacier melting rapidly

Jakarta [Indonesia], September 1:The Puncak Jaya glacier in Indonesia's Papua Province, one of the world's few tropical glaciers, could disappear...

Protests against Dutch nominee as EU climate commissioner

Protests against Dutch nominee as EU climate commissioner

The Hague [Netherlands], September 1: The nomination of Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra as the new European Union commissioner for...

Climate crisis one step ahead of us: Greek PM

Climate crisis one step ahead of us: Greek...

Athens [Greece], September 1: The enormous scope of the wildfires that have struck Greece this summer can be attributed primarily...

'Shut up': Ukraine's Kuleba lashes out at counteroffensive critics

'Shut up': Ukraine's Kuleba lashes out at counteroffensive...

Kyiv [Ukraine], September 1: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Thursday slammed the critics of his country's counteroffensive strategy and...

Trump pleads not guilty in Georgia election interference case

Trump pleads not guilty in Georgia election interference...

Washington [US], September 1: Former US President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday in the sprawling Georgia election interference...

In Sudan's east, murky arms trade thrives as war rages

In Sudan's east, murky arms trade thrives as...

Khartoum [Sudan], September 1: More than four months into Sudan's devastating war, arms dealers are struggling to keep up with...

Storm Idalia strikes Georgia, Carolinas after slamming Florida

Storm Idalia strikes Georgia, Carolinas after slamming Florida

Tbilisi [Georgia], September 1: Florida began assessing the damage Wednesday from Idalia's flooding after the powerful storm inundated coastal communities...

UK names Grant Shapps as new defense secretary

UK names Grant Shapps as new defense secretary

London [UK], September 1: Grant Shapps was on Thursday appointed UK defense secretary, succeeding Ben Wallace who formally stepped down...