Israel and Hezbollah in major missile exchange as escalation fears grow
Tel Aviv [Israel], August 26: Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early on Sunday, as Israel's military said it struck Lebanon with...
TICAD Ministerial Meeting explores boosting AU-Japan cooperation
Tokyo [Japan], August 26: Participants in the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Ministerial Meeting, which took place on 24th and 25th August, 2024,...
Sheikh Zayed, Fatima bint Mubarak shaped UAE's vision on women's empowerment: Omar...
Cairo [Egypt], August 26: Dr. Omar Habtoor Al Darei, Chairman of the General Authority of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, and Zakat, affirmed that the UAE has...
Guterres stresses importance of de-escalation, calls for urgent ceasefire across Blue Line
New York [US], August 26: Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), has expressed deep concern over the significant increase in crossfire across the...
Tunisia reshuffles cabinet, appointing new foreign, defence ministers
Tunis [Tunisia], August 26: Tunisian President Kais Saied ordered on Sunday a cabinet reshuffle, which included 19 ministries.
NASA astronauts cannot return, one-week mission turns into half a year
Washington [US], August 25: This decision was made after the Boeing Starliner spacecraft used to carry two NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore to...
Many people suddenly realize they belong to a new gender.
Washington [US], August 25: News.com.au reported on August 25 that many people realized their true gender after discovering the term "sexual fluidity" on social media...
Italy investigates manslaughter after yacht sinking kills British billionaire
London [UK], August 25: Chief prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio said investigators had found that the cause of the sinking was not the weather but the crew's...
Hezbollah is about to launch a massive attack, Israel launches a preemptive...
Gaza [Palestine], August 25: The Israeli military said on August 25 that it had launched preemptive strikes in Lebanon after discovering that Hezbollah forces there...
US warns Houthi-attacked ship could spill 'millions of barrels' of oil
Washington [US], August 25: The US State Department on August 24 warned of the risk of an environmental disaster in the Red Sea, after Houthi...
Trump 'riding a lion' to campaign
Washington [US], August 25: The Independent newspaper reported on August 25 that former US President Donald Trump shared on the social network Truth Social an...
Hezbollah begins retaliatory attacks, Israel declares emergency
Jerusalem [Israel], August 25: Hezbollah has just announced the start of a large-scale attack on Israel in response to the assassination of military...
Canada rail shutdown: Union challenges government move
Ottawa [Canada], August 25: The union representing over 9,000 Canadian rail workers vowed on Friday to challenge the federal government's effort to mandate binding arbitration...
Floods, landslides in India's Tripura displace tens of thousands
Tripura (Assam) [India], August 25: Soldiers in lifeboats ferried people to safety in India's northeastern state of Tripura after heavy rain triggered floods and landslides,...
Germany attack: Police arrest suspected knifeman
Berlin [Germany], August 25: German police have arrested a man suspected of killing three people and injuring another eight in Friday's knife attack in the...
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
Paris [France], August 25: Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov has been arrested by French police at an airport north of Paris.
Wildfires affecting 30 cities in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, leave 2 dead
Brasilia [Brazil], August 25: Brazil's Sao Paulo state said that wildfire outbreaks were affecting or closing in on 30 of its cities on Friday evening,...
Zelenskiy touts new 'drone missile', calls Putin 'sick old man'
Kyiv [Ukraine], August 25: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy touted a newly developed Ukrainian "drone missile" on Saturday that he said would take the war back to...
Sharjah Charity International disbursed AED84.3M in UAE in H1-24
Sharjah [UAE], August 25: The Sharjah Charity International (SCI) spent AED84.3 million on aid programmes within the country during the first half of this year....
Madeira's wildfire finally under control
Lisbon [Portugal], August 25: The fire that raged on several fronts in Madeira for 11 days is finally under control and in the dampening down...
King Salman International Complex, UNA to hold symposium on promoting Arabic content
Jeddah [Saudi Arabia], August 25: The King Salman International Academy for the Arabic Language and the Union of News Agencies of the Organisation of Islamic...
NASA decides to keep 2 stranded astronauts in space until February
Washington [US], August 25: Two NASA astronauts who flew to the International Space Station in June aboard Boeing's (BA.N), opens new tab faulty Starliner capsule...
Kuwait welcomes ALPS joint statement after Sudan talks in Geneva
Kuwait City [Kuwait], August 25: Kuwait welcomed Saturday the joint statement issued by the Aligned for Advancing Lifesaving and Peace in Sudan (ALPS) Group which...
Turkish lira hits record low against USD
Istanbul [Turkey], August 24: The Turkish lira plummeted to a historic low against the U.S. dollar on Friday, with the exchange rate exceeding 34 liras...
Egyptian, U.S. presidents discuss Gaza ceasefire talks
Cairo [Egypt], August 24: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and U.S. President Joe Biden discussed the Gaza ceasefire negotiations on Friday during a phone call, focusing...
Yemeni gov't says intercepts Houthi drones targeting oil facility
Aden [Yemen], August 24: The Yemeni army intercepted three Houthi drones carrying explosives targeting the Safer oil facility in Marib Governorate on Friday, according to...
Deadly fire at South Korea battery maker due to quality failure
Seoul [South Korea], August 24: A fire at a South Korean lithium battery maker in June that killed 23 people occurred as the company raced...