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Japan approves ($139bn plan for disaster-resilient infrastructure

Japan approves ($139bn plan for disaster-resilient infrastructure

Tokyo [Japan], June 7: The Japanese government on Friday approved a plan to enhance the disaster resilience of the country's...

UAE sets global benchmark in peaceful nuclear energy development

UAE sets global benchmark in peaceful nuclear energy...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], June 7: The UAE continues to cement its status as a global role model in developing a...

Bangladesh Chief Adviser announces national election in first half of April 2026

Bangladesh Chief Adviser announces national election in first...

Dhaka [Bangladesh], June 7: The Bangladesh interim government on Friday announced that the national election will be held in the...

North Korea straightens capsized warship and completes launch

North Korea straightens capsized warship and completes launch

Pyongyang [North Korea], June 6: North Korea announced on June 6 that it had completed launching and mooring the warship...

Israel admits for first time supporting armed groups in Gaza against Hamas

Israel admits for first time supporting armed groups...

Tel Aviv [Israel], June 6: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted that his country is using armed gangs in...

Global energy investment set to rise to $3.3 trillion in 2025: IEA

Global energy investment set to rise to $3.3...

Paris [France], June 6: The International Energy Agency (IEA) said that global energy investment is set to increase in 2025...

Tech sector emissions, energy use grow with rise of AI: Report

Tech sector emissions, energy use grow with rise...

Geneva [Switzerland], June 6: Tech sector carbon emissions continued their rise in recent years, fueled by rapid advances in artificial...

WFP: Over 70,000 children in Gaza suffer from acute malnutrition

WFP: Over 70,000 children in Gaza suffer from...

Gaza [Palestine], June 6: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced that more than 70,000 Palestinian children in Gaza...

Small magnitude 3.4 earthquake 10 km southwest of Italy's Naples

Small magnitude 3.4 earthquake 10 km southwest of...

Rome [Italy], June 6: An earthquake of magnitude 3.4 occurred early morning on Thursday, June 5th, 2025, at 6:48 am...

Hajj 1446: 1.673 million pilgrims

Hajj 1446: 1.673 million pilgrims

Mecca [Saudi Arabia], June 6: Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Statistics has announced that the total number of Hajj pilgrims...

UN Security Council calls for immediate release of hostages detained by Houthis

UN Security Council calls for immediate release of...

New York [US], June 6: The United Nations Security Council, in a statement today, called on the Houthis to immediately...

Gaza doctors give their own blood to patients

Gaza doctors give their own blood to patients

Gaza [Palestine], June 6: Doctors in the Gaza Strip are donating their own blood to save their patients after scores...

Russia targets teachers who cooperated with the British Council

Russia targets teachers who cooperated with the British...

Moscow [Russia], June 6: Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) accused British intelligence on Thursday of using the British Council as...

Israeli military strikes Beirut's southern suburbs

Israeli military strikes Beirut's southern suburbs

Gaza [Palestine], June 6: The Israeli military said on Thursday that it was attacking Hezbollah targets in Beirut's southern suburbs,...

Trump: 'I'm very disappointed in Elon'

Trump: 'I'm very disappointed in Elon'

New York [US], June 6: President Trump said he's always liked Elon Musk, and was surprised to see Musk's criticism...

Eight injured on Ryanair flight hit by 'severe turbulence'

Eight injured on Ryanair flight hit by 'severe...

Berlin [Germany], June 6: Eight passengers were injured on a Ryanair flight that diverted to an airport in southern Germany...

Canada prepares reprisals over US metals tariffs

Canada prepares reprisals over US metals tariffs

Ottawa [Canada], June 6: Canada prepared possible reprisals while the European Union reported progress in trade talks on Wednesday as...

Three New Zealand lawmakers suspended for performing Maori haka

Three New Zealand lawmakers suspended for performing Maori...

Wellington [New Zealand], June 6: Three lawmakers in New Zealand were formally suspended from parliament on Thursday for performing a...

'Premeditated genocide': Brazil President Lula slams Israel over Gaza war

'Premeditated genocide': Brazil President Lula slams Israel over...

Paris [France], June 6: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused Israel of carrying out "premeditated genocide" in Gaza...

Trump refuses to lay blame for war on Russia

Trump refuses to lay blame for war on...

Washington [US], June 6: US President Donald Trump once again refused to single out Russia as the aggressor and instigator...

Israeli strikes kill at least 52 across Gaza

Israeli strikes kill at least 52 across Gaza

Gaza [Palestine], June 6: At least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza on Thursday, medical sources told...

NATO begins Baltic drills; Russian spy plane triggers jet scramble

NATO begins Baltic drills; Russian spy plane triggers...

Rostock [Germany], June 6: NATO forces began conducting a two-week exercise on the Baltic Sea, with the first ships departing...

Trump imposes travel ban on 12 countries for security concerns

Trump imposes travel ban on 12 countries for...

Washington [US], June 6: US President Donald Trump imposed a travel ban on 12 countries on Wednesday, citing security risks.

Musk turns on Republicans

Musk turns on Republicans

New York [US], June 5: For 130 days, tech billionaire Elon Musk was a "special government employee" working inside the...

North Korea's Kim vows unconditional support for Russia

North Korea's Kim vows unconditional support for Russia

Pyongyang [North Korea], June 5: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Russia's Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu...

Deported Venezuelans have right to challenge detention

Deported Venezuelans have right to challenge detention

Caracas [Venezuela], June 5: Hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the United States to El Salvador under an 18th-century wartime law...

Trump cannot proceed with gutting US Education Department

Trump cannot proceed with gutting US Education Department

New York [US], June 5: A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to lift a judge's order blocking President Donald...