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Manila: Super typhoon Noru slammed Luzon island in the Philippines with heavy rainfall and winds on Sunday afternoon, leaving five people dead, as it blew away from the Southeast Asian country on Monday.Bulacan province Governor Daniel Fernando said Monday...

Rome: Italy opened polling stations for snap parliamentary elections at 07:00 a.m. local time (05:00 GMT) on Sunday.The citizens are electing 400 members of parliament and 200 senators, after the cabinet led by Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned in...

Geneva: British music stars Harry Styles and Ed Sheeran, US basketball legend Shaquille O´Neal and other celebrities will donate personal objects for a campaign launched Saturday to support healthcare in Ukraine.Seven months into Russia´s war, the WHO Foundation --...

Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given utmost importance to dialogue to resolve crises and disputes, urging the world community to stop any arms race, war, and sanctions for building a peaceful world, the PMO in Dhaka...

London: The EU must take Vladimir Putin's threats seriously as the Russian President could use nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told the BBC hinting that the war has reached a...

New York:  China has accused the US of sending “very wrong, dangerous signals” on Taiwan after the US secretary of state told his Chinese counterpart that the maintenance of peace and stability over Taiwan was vitally important.Taiwan was the...

Washington: The US says it will ease Internet curbs on Iran to counter Tehran's clampdown on protests which were sparked by a woman's death in police custody leading to 35 deaths in the worst unrest in Iran for years."We...

Geneva: The United Nations has said its investigators have concluded that Russia committed war crimes in Ukraine, including bombings of civilian areas, numerous executions, torture and horrific sexual violence.The team of three independent experts on Friday presented their first...

Islamabad: Pakistan should suspend international debt repayments and restructure loans with creditors after recent floods added to the country’s financial crisis, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing a UN policy memo.The memorandum, which the UN Development Programme will...

Damascus: At least thirty-four people were dead and several others injured after a boat carrying immigrants from Lebanon capsized in the Syrian territorial water, the Syria Health Ministry announced.Twenty people onboard the ship were rescued and are currently receiving...