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Egypt to host high-level Arab meeting on Palestinian issues

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 Iraq

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: WSJ

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 increase

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 involving Bombardier

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

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 tariffs

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

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 removal in Gaza

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 human rights needs

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 UNRWA

'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 in Baltic Sea

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 Trump

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 Mexico today

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 US

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 bodies found

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 crash

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 over midair collision

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 Year

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

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

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 energy directives

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

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 Arctic

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 issue

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 trying her

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

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...