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Mogadishu: At least four people have been killed and dozens more injured after jihadist militants attacked a popular hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.Witnesses told the BBC they heard multiple explosions and heavy gunfire coming from the Villa Rose hotel...

Ramallah: The Israeli ministerial coalition has signed a deal to abandon bilateral peace agreements signed under international auspices, a senior Palestinian official said.Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman of the Palestinian presidency, told reporters that the declared agreements and understandings in...

Moscow:An unmanned SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft has successfully docked to the International Space Station (ISS) after a four-day delay caused by poor weather in Florida, NASA said on Sunday."A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to the space-facing port...

Wellington:The New Zealand Government on Monday announced a multi million dollar package to tackle retail crime and reoffending, with new initiatives to partner with small businesses and local councils."While youth crime is now much lower than in the past,...

Beijing:China's number of new daily infections rose to a record high of 32,943 since the beginning of the pandemic in 2019, the Chinese National Health Commission said on Friday.The country saw a record 31,656 new cases on Thursday and,...

Jakarta: At least 100 children under the age of 15 were among those killed in the recent earthquake in the Indonesian province of West Java, UNICEF Indonesia said in a statement on Friday."According to the latest official estimate as...

Brasilia: At least three people were killed and eleven more were wounded by a man armed with a gun, who attacked two schools in the Brazilian city of Aracruz in the state of Espirito Santo, the country's news outlets...

Washington: Apple is interested in buying Manchester United for 5.8 billion pounds ($7 billion) in a deal that will make it the richest football club in the world, media reported Thursday.The British club’s American billionaire owners, brothers Avram and...

Tokyo: The Japanese health ministry has authorized the country’s first locally made COVID-19 oral treatment, Xocova, for emergency use.The pill was developed by Osaka-based pharma firm Shionogi & Co to treat coronavirus patients after they develop initial symptoms, such...

Siem Reap, (Cambodia):Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday called for urgent and resolute global efforts to counter transnational and cross-border terrorism, terming it as the gravest threat to regional and global security.Addressing the ADMM Plus forum, Singh said, "The...