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 US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said hevplans to meet the newly elected mayor of New York, 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani, at the White House."Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran...

Twelve people, including nine children, were killed overnight in a house fire in southern Kazakhstan, the Tengri news news agency reported on Tuesday.Three people were rescued unconscious from the...

 The consequences of climate change have already driven millions of people worldwide to flee their homes, according to figures released by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) ahead of the 30thannual UN...

 Nearly 1 million people fled their homes in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Fung-Wong on Sunday brought severe winds and torrential rain, almost a week after another powerful typhoon left more than...

Around 520 million children worldwide lived in conflict zones in 2024, 47 million more than the previous year and the highest number recorded since 2005, according to a report by Save the Children...

Foreign ministers from eight countries will meet in Istanbul on Monday to discuss further steps toward implementing the Gaza peace plan.Turkey says the meeting will include the top diplomats of the...

 About 600 employees in Meta Platforms' artificial intelligence division are set to be laid off as part of a wider effort to speed up decision-making and streamline operations.Meta chief AI...

 Swiss food giant Nestlé said on Thursday it will cut about 16,000 jobs globally over the next two years as part of a cost-savings drive.The reductions will include roughly 12,000 white-collar...

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday for the Gaza peace summit, multiple Israeli media outlets reported.US President Donald Trump will also...

 Indonesian rescue teams on Tuesday concluded a week-long search for victims in the rubble of a collapsed four-storey building at an Islamic boarding school, confirming 61 deaths in one of the...

The 2025 Nobel Prize season begins on Monday with the announcement of the winner in the Physiology or Medicine category.The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm is set to reveal, no...

The United States has denied the Iranian delegation entry to attend the World Cup draw in the country, according to the spokesperson for the Iranian Football Federation (FFI), Amir-Mehdi Alawi.Among...

Elon Musk has become the first person estimated to reach a net worth of $500 billion, according to US magazine Forbes, largely held in shares of electric carmaker Tesla and aerospace firm...

 European Union senior officials on Tuesday welcomed US President Donald Trump's 20-point peace plan for Gaza."President Trump's Gaza plan is an opportunity for lasting peace. It offers the...

Paris - More than 16 years after the crash of an Air France flight between Rio de Janeiro and Paris that killed all 228 people on board, the airline and aircraft manufacturer Airbus will once again...

The world's highest bridge has opened to traffic in the south-western Chinese province of Guizhou, cutting travel time through the mountainous Huajiang Canyon from about two hours to just a few...

Munich: US tech giant OpenAI and Europe's largest softwaregroup SAP are to cooperate in providing artificial intelligence (AI) to the German public sector.The partnership, termed OpenAI for...

Super Typhoon Ragasa is causing major flight disruptions across Asia as it churns in the South China Sea, with Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific saying on Tuesday that more than 500flights were being...

 FIFA has been accused of not caring about fans and "living in a parallel universe" over its controversial ticket pricing policy for next year's World Cup.A 10-day window opened on Wednesday,...

 At least 29 people were injured - including two who are in a critical condition - after a magnitude-6 earthquake struck Sunday morning on the island of Sulawesi in central Indonesia, an official...