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Taipei: Taiwan on Thursday launched its first homegrown defense submarine, the Indigenous Defense Submarine (IDS) Narwhal, the island's Central News Agency (CNA) reported.The launching ceremony took place in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung and was presided over by Taiwanese...

Vladivistok: Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos announced that two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut have safely returned to the Earth on Wednesday after living for a year in the International Space Station (ISS).The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, carrying Sergey...

Jerusalem: Five people, all in a family, were killed Wednesday in a shooting in an Arab town in northern Israel, the latest in a wave of violence sweeping through Arab communities across the country.Israeli police said in a statement...

Manila: Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos on Wednesday signed into law a measure creating a master plan to boost employment in the Southeast Asian country.In a speech, Marcos said the new act will help solve the challenges plaguing the...

Macao: China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) has reported the first case of monkeypox in the city, urging people with high risks to be vaccinated against the disease.The patient is a 29-year-old Macao resident, male, who has recently traveled...

Mexico City: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 jolted off the coast of Michoacan, Mexico at 0621 GMT on Tuesday, the U.S. geological Survey said.The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at...

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...