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Jerusalem: Israel on Thursday rejected the United Nations (UN) Security Council's call for extended humanitarian pauses in the Israel-Hamas conflict."Extended humanitarian pauses are untenable as long as 239 abductees remain in the hands of Hamas," Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesperson...

Beijing: The death toll from a massive fire in China’s Shanxi province went up to 25, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Thursday.The fire broke out in a four-storey Yongju Coal Industry office building at 6:50 a.m. local time...

St Petersburg: The Saint Petersburg International Cultural Forum (SPICF) will open on Thursday, November 16, in Russia’s so-called cultural capital, bringing together delegates from 80 countries.The SPICF has been designed as a platform to talk over the most pressing...

Jerusalem: The Israeli armed forces have expanded the operation at the Shifa hospital to its southern part, the i24 broadcaster reported on Thursday.If on Wednesday, the Israeli forces were focused on buildings located in the western part of the...

Taiyuan: Eleven people were killed after a fire broke out Thursday morning at a building of a coal mine company in Lyuliang City in north China's Shanxi Province, according to the municipal emergency management authority.The fire occurred in Lyuliang's...

Moscow: Madagascar is holding a presidential election on Thursday, with a total of 13 candidates running for office.Former Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina, who resigned in September in line with the country's constitution in order to run for reelection, is...

Beijing: The summit of Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden in San Francisco will become a milestone in the history of relations the China-US relationship, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Thursday."The heads of the two...

Jakarta: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 rocked off Indonesia's North Sulawesi province on Thursday, without causing giant waves, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency BMKG said.The agency had earlier reported the quake's magnitude at 6.2 before...

Tokyo: Japan closely monitors developments in North Korea, including the visit of a Russian government delegation to Pyongyang, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Wednesday."Japan closely monitors the situation in North Korea, including and conducts information...

Moscow: The Russian Defense Ministry said its air defense system had shot down a Ukrainian drone over the Russian western region of Smolensk Region on Wednesday."On November 15, at about 7:30 a.m. Moscow time , an attempt by the...