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Canberra: Australia's Prime Minister (PM) has announced funding to build a new hydrogen hub in South Australia (SA), according to an official statement.Australian PM Anthony Albanese and Peter Malinauskas, the Premier of SA, on Monday committed a combined 100...

Islamabad: A soldier was killed in an exchange of fire between security forces and militants in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a military statement said.The incident happened during an intelligence-based operation by the security forces in Mir Ali area...

Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has commented that if there is a conspiracy from foreign countries to thwart the national election of Bangladesh, the people of this country will also impose sanctions on them.She said, there is nothing to...

Tianjin: The middle route of China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project has benefited more than 12 million people living in north China's Tianjin Municipality, authorities said.As of 9 a.m. on Friday, the project had transferred over 9 billion cubic meters...

Dhaka: International Republican Institute (IRI) and National Democratic Institute (NDI), with the funding of the United States government, will send an independent and impartial Pre-Election Assessment Mission (PEAM) to Bangladesh.A six-member delegation and their support staff will visit Bangladesh...

Jerusalem: Israeli archaeologists have discovered two ancient farmhouses dating back about 1,200 years, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said on Thursday.The farmhouses, from the early Muslim period, were discovered during excavations in the Negev desert city of Beer Sheva...

Washington: U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a new military aid package worth 325 million U.S. dollars for Ukraine, including more air defense, while the U.S. Congress is struggling to reach a compromise to avert a federal government...

Wellington: Experts call for caution as New Zealand has detected the highly mutated Covid-19 variant BA.2.86, known as "Pirola," in wastewater samples taken earlier this month."Pirola," the Omicron subvariant detected by the New Zealand Institute of Environmental Science and...

Beijing: At the invitation of Premier of the State Council Li Qiang, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda of Nepal will pay an official visit to China from Sept. 23 to 30, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning announced on...

Santiago: A total of 25 people were killed in traffic accidents during Chile's annual "Fiestas Patrias" independence celebrations from Sept. 15 to 19, Chilean authorities reported Wednesday.Eleven people died as a result of being run over, six from crashes,...