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Beijing: A court in east China's Shandong Province sentenced one person to death with a reprieve and another to life imprisonment for child trafficking on Wednesday.Guo Gangtang, the father of an abducted boy, inspired the 2015 road drama film...

Moscow: A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket carrying a military satellite has been launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.On December 21, Russia launched another rocket with a military satellite from the Plesetsk cosmodrome."On Wednesday, December...

Buenos Aires: Argentine President Javier Milei said on Wednesday he would call a referendum on proposed economic reforms if the country's parliament votes against them.Last week, Milei said he had signed an emergency decree for more than 300 reforms...

Baghdad: Iraqi security forces on Tuesday found two bodies of Kuwaiti and Saudi tourists who were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in a desert in western Iraq, the Iraqi military said.One Saudi citizen and one Kuwaiti citizen, who...

Beirut: Two Hezbollah fighters and a member of the Lebanese Civil Defense were killed on Tuesday in confrontations between Hezbollah and Israeli forces on the border, Lebanese military sources told Xinhua.The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said...

Sanaa: Yemen's Houthi rebels on Tuesday claimed responsibility for fresh attacks on a commercial ship in the Red Sea and on the Israeli city of Eilat in the northern part of the Red Sea."Our naval forces carried out...

Sydney: At least eight people have lost their lives in Australia, with one still missing, as wild thunderstorms ripped through the country's southeast coast during Christmas and Boxing Day.In Queensland, the death toll rose to six following the conclusion...

Abuja: Some sixteen people have been killed in a clash between herders and farmers in the village of Mushu in northcentral Nigeria, according to media reports on Sunday.The attack occurred around midnight Saturday and investigation was underway to determine...

Gaza: At least 70 Palestinians were killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, reported the state-run Palestine TV.Ashraf Al-Qedra, spokesman for the Gaza-based Health Ministry, said in a statement...

Tehran: Iran's Navy on Sunday took delivery of new homegrown armament, including cruise missile systems and helicopters, in a ceremony in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, the official news agency IRNA reported.The handover ceremony, which was held...