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In the days after his convincing win in the US presidential election, Donald Trump named several of his nominees to form his future cabinet at the White House, ahead of his inauguration on January...

Bengaluru - Schools in India's south were shut and hundreds of people moved inland to storm shelters ahead of a powerful cyclone storm set to hit the region on Saturday.Cyclonic storm Fengal is...

Air pollution caused by fires is linked to more than 1.5 million deaths a year worldwide, the vast majority occurring in developing countries, a major new study said on Thursday.This death toll is...

Paris - Donald Trump's return to the White House, Israel's expansion of the Gaza war into Lebanon, and the Olympics that lit up Paris were among the news events that marked 2024. AFP looks back at 12...

Paris - The wars in the Mideast and Ukraine-Russia have dominated world headlines in 2024 but several other conflicts are ravaging countries and regions.Here we turn the spotlight on five of...

Beirut - A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon took effect on Wednesday after more than a year of fighting that has killed thousands of people.The truce, which began at 4:00 am (0200...

A DHL cargo plane crashed as it came in to land at Lithuania's Vilnius airport on Monday morning, killing one person in what Germany's foreign minister later said could be an accident or a hybrid...

Paris - Before it threatened biodiversity, the oceans, and the global food chain, plastics saved lives and transformed societies as a durable, malleable and cheap material. From the 1950s, plastics...

GAZA: Dozens of people were killed or unaccounted for after Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, a hospital director and the civil defence agency said on Thursday.One strike near the Kamal Adwan...

TEHRAN: A censure motion put forward by Western governments at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) "will weaken and disrupt" Iran's dealings with the UN watchdog, it warned ahead of the vote...

BEIRUT: Israeli strikes killed 79 fighters, including from Iraq and Lebanon, in the Syrian city of Palmyra, a monitor said on Thursday, updating the toll for the raids a day earlier.The toll was "the...

BANGKOK: Four foreign tourists have died after a suspected mass methanol poisoning from drinking tainted spirits at a backpacker hotspot in Laos, Western government officials and media said on...

KYIV: Russia fired an intercontinental ballistic missile during an attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday, Kyiv's air force said, in what would be the first use in war of a weapon designed...

LONDON: The UK government on Thursday announced sanctions on Angola's Isabel dos Santos, the billionaire businesswoman and daughter of the country's former president, as part of a new anti-corruption...

PERTH, Australia: Stand-in skipper Jasprit Bumrah insisted on Thursday that India were carrying no baggage from their Test whitewash by New Zealand and warned Australia that star batsman Virat Kohli...

MALAGA, Spain: Italy won the Billie Jean King Cup for the fifth time as Jasmine Paolini beat Rebecca Sramkova to secure a dominant 2-0 win over Slovakia on Wednesday.World number four Paolini...

LOS ANGELES: Ty Jerome scored 29 points as the Cleveland Cavaliers bounced back from their first defeat of the season with a 128-100 rout of the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday.The Cavs saw their...

MALAGA, Spain: Australia defeated record 28-time Davis Cup winners the United States in a decisive doubles rubber on Thursday to reach the semifinals with a hard-fought 2-1 victory.World number four...

Baku - A fresh draft of a climate pact unveiled Thursday at COP29 failed to break an impasse between nations, with negotiators racing against the clock to broker a trillion-dollar finance...

Reuters - New EU and British sanctions on Iran contradict international law are based on false claims of missile transfers to Russia and are "unjustified", Iran Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil...