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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...

EU to sign UN Convention on cybercrime

EU to sign UN Convention on cybercrime

Brussels [Belgium], October 14: The European Council today adopted a decision authorising the European Commission and member states to sign...

Three recipients share 2025 Nobel Prize in economics

Three recipients share 2025 Nobel Prize in economics

Stockholm [Sweden], October 14: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic...

Ghana boat capsize kills 15, mostly children

Ghana boat capsize kills 15, mostly children

Accra [Ghana], October 14: A boat capsized on Lake Volta in northeastern Ghana, killing 15 people, maritime authorities said on...

64 dead in Mexico floods, landslides

64 dead in Mexico floods, landslides

Mexico City [Mexico], October 14: Severe storms have caused widespread destruction across Mexico, with at least 64 people reported dead...

Zelensky hopes for solution for Ukraine after Gaza ceasefire

Zelensky hopes for solution for Ukraine after Gaza...

Gaza City [Gaza], October 14: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is hoping for peace for his country following the breakthrough in...

At least 69 people injured in train collision in Slovakia

At least 69 people injured in train collision...

Bratislava [Slovakia], October 14: Around 69 people were injured in a collision between two express trains in Slovakia on Monday.

NATO begins manoeuvres practising defence with nuclear weapons

NATO begins manoeuvres practising defence with nuclear weapons

Brussels [Belgium], October 14: NATO has begun its annual manoeuvres to practise defending the alliance's territory with nuclear weapons.

Russian foreign minister calls for clarity on Palestinian statehood

Russian foreign minister calls for clarity on Palestinian...

Moscow [Russia], October 14: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov voiced concern on Monday that US President Donald Trump's plan to...