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Israel will do to Iran what it has done to Hamas in Gaza, Defence Minister Israel Katz warned Thursday."You are directly responsible. What we have done to Hezbollah in Beirut, to Hamas in Gaza, to...

A man was admitted to the World Expo in Japan with a ticket to a 1940 event that was called off as war escalated, organisers said.Tickets for the "Grand International Exposition of Japan" in Tokyo...

Bangkok - Clashes between India and Pakistan on Wednesday sent airlines scrambling to cancel, divert, or reroute flights.The neighbours exchanged heavy artillery fire along their contested frontier...

Washington: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he hoped clashes between India and Pakistan end "very quickly," after New Delhi's forces launched strikes and Islamabad vowed retaliation."They've...

Muzaffarabad: India fired missiles at Pakistani territory early Wednesday in a major escalation of tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals, with Islamabad vowing retaliation.Pakistan military says...

Sydney - An Australian woman accused of murdering three people with a toxic mushroom-laced lunch rejected offers of help before serving the dish, the sole guest to survive the deadly meal told a court...

Port Sudan - A drone strike on Tuesday on Port Sudan's airport, war-torn Sudan's main port of entry, grounded all flights, according to an airport official in the country's wartime capital."The drone...

Sanaa - The United States and Israel struck the port of Hodeida on Monday, hours after a reported US air raid on Sanaa and a day after rebels targeted Israel's main airport.An Israeli official,...

Oil prices slumped on Monday after eight OPEC+ members announced a sharp increase in production, while Asian stocks treaded water in thin trade with major markets closed. The output increase of...

Washington - US President Donald Trump said Sunday he was ordering new tariffs on all films made outside the United States, claiming Hollywood was being "devastated" by a trend of US filmmakers and...

Cairo - In living rooms across Egypt, a television drama has shattered the silence around child sexual abuse, forcing a national reckoning with a subject long buried in taboo.The show, "Lam Shamseya",...

When he grows up, five-year-old Ahmad wants to be "stronger than Spider-Man". But his dream clashes with a harsh reality -- the Jordanian boy has a serious disability, and major US aid cuts mean he...

Dhaka: Three days of political rallies began in Bangladesh on Thursday with rival groups set to stage mass demonstrations in Dhaka, drumming up support for eagerly anticipated elections following an...

Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after six months on the country's space station, state media footage showed, as Beijing advances towards its aim to become a major celestial...

Islamabad - Pakistan's information minister said Wednesday that Islamabad had "credible intelligence" that India was planning an imminent military strike and he vowed a "decisive response", as worries...

Kolkata - A fierce fire ripped through a hotel in the Indian city of Kolkata, killing at least 15 people, police said Wednesday, with some clambering out of windows and onto the rooftop to escape....

Ottawa - Prime Minister Mark Carney won Canada's election Monday, leading his Liberal Party to a new term in power after convincing voters his experience managing crises had prepared him to confront...

Amazon on Monday launched its first batch of Project Kuiper internet satellites, marking the start of its push to rival Elon Musk's Starlink.The mission, called Kuiper Atlas 1, lifted off from Cape...

New York - US President Donald Trump has agreed to soften the impact of tariffs on automakers who have been hit by multiple levies, US media reported on Monday.The move comes ahead of a Trump rally...

Madrid - Electricity had been restored to nearly 90 percent of mainland Spain after the massive outage that hit the Iberian Peninsula, the national grid operator said early Tuesday. As of 04:00 am...