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Warsaw: Poland's Culture Minister sacked the heads of three state media outlets on Wednesday, leading to protests from the conservatives.The dismissals came one week after the new government led by Donald Tusk took power from the conservative Law and...

Los Angeles: A SpaceX Dragon cargo resupply spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and return to Earth with supplies and scientific experiments, according to NASA.Dragon will undock from the space station's Harmony module...

Jerusalem: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had struck an operational command center of the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon."A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck a Hezbollah operational command center in Lebanon," the IDF said in a...

Tehran: Iranian and Qatari foreign ministers on Wednesday exchanged views on greater efforts to ensure a political solution to the Gaza crisis.During their talks in the Qatari capital Doha, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Qatari counterpart Sheikh...

Ankara: The Turkish authorities have issued arrest warrants for 49 suspects in two investigations over their alleged ties to the Islamic State (IS) and the Gulen Movement, the Chief Public Prosecutor's office said Tuesday.Among the 16 suspected members of...

Jishishan, Gansu Province: The number of injured people from the 6.2-magnitude earthquake in northwest China's Gansu Province has risen to 782 in Gansu, with the death toll standing at 113 as of 9 a.m. on Wednesday, according to a...

Jakarta: Hydrometeorological disasters have hit some areas in the Indonesian province of West Sumatra, killing two, an official said.West Sumatra Governor Mahyeldi Ansharullah told local media on Monday that the two people were killed after being buried in a...

Jishishan, Gansu Province: The 6.2-magnitude earthquake that jolted an ethnic county in northwest China's Gansu Province at midnight Monday has killed 105 people in the province, according to a local press conference held on Tuesday morning.According to the China...

Asuncion: At least 10 people were killed in a police and military operation on Monday at Tacumbu Penitentiary in the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion, the National Police announced.According to the preliminary report, nine inmates and an agent of the...

Urumqi: No casualties have been reported so far after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake jolted the city of Atux in Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.According to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), the earthquake occurred...