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Macron says 'counting' on Xi to 'bring Russia to its senses'

French President Emmanuel Macron called on his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to "bring Russia to its senses" over Ukraine and urged him not to deliver weapons to Moscow..The French president, who arrived on Wednesday for a three-day state visit, has made clear he is seeking to dissuade Ch
6 April 2023, 13:19 PM

Deadly snake on plane: South African pilot makes emergency landing

"I saw the cobra... receding its head backwards underneath the seat," the pilot said
6 April 2023, 06:21 AM

'Operation Cookie Monster': International police action seizes dark web market

International law enforcement agencies have seized a sprawling dark web marketplace popular with cybercriminals, Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Wednesday, in a multinational crackdown dubbed "Operation Cookie Monster"
6 April 2023, 06:00 AM

Cat climbs onto sheikh leading Ramadan prayers in Algeria

A cat wandered around the Sheikh until it jumped on him
6 April 2023, 05:07 AM

Tornado kills 5 after tearing through Missouri in US

First responders from multiple agencies combed through destroyed homes and businesses in the rural area that Missouri Governor Mike Parson said faces "a long journey ahead" toward recovery
6 April 2023, 04:28 AM

Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images

Facebook-owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind
6 April 2023, 02:09 AM

Israeli police attack worshippers

Israeli police entered Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque in force before dawn yesterday and clashed with worshippers, drawing condemnation from Arab countries and a furious reaction in the occupied West Bank and crossborder strikes in Gaza.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM

War crimes in Ukraine: Bangladesh abstains from UN voting

A total of 17 countries, including Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, abstained from voting on a UN resolution for the extension of the mandate of the investigation into possible war crimes committed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM

US ‘going to hell’

Donald Trump offered a full-throated defense of his conduct Tuesday in his first public remarks since being charged over hush money payments to a porn star, blasting the criminal prosecution as “an insult to our country.”
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM

Webb telescope discovers oldest galaxies ever observed

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the four most distant galaxies ever observed, one of which formed just 320 million years after the Big Bang when the universe was still in its infancy, new research said on Tuesday.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM

Iran names envoy to UAE after nearly eight-year absence

Iran has named an ambassador to the United Arab Emirates nearly eight years after his predecessor left, as a thaw in relations with the Gulf Arab states picks up pace.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM

Ukraine could pull out of Bakhmut

President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday thanked Poland for its “historic” help in rallying Western support for Ukraine during a visit to Warsaw and said Ukrainian troops were still fighting for Bakhmut in the east but could withdraw if they risked being cut off.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM

US, S Korea hold air drills

South Korea and the United States yesterday staged joint air drills involving at least one US nuclear-capable B-52H strategic bomber, Seoul’s military said.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM

440 migrants rescued: MSF

More than 400 migrants have been rescued from a boat off Malta after an 11-hour operation, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said yesterday after its ship responded to a distress alert. While heading to shelter in the Mediterranean due to bad weather,
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM

Iran welcomes US call to back peace process

Iran yesterday welcomed a US call to help end the long-running conflict in Yemen by backing a peace process, one year after a United Nations-brokered truce dramatically reduced fighting.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM

Biden eyes AI dangers

US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday it remains to be seen whether artificial intelligence (AI) is dangerous, but underscored that technology companies had a responsibility to ensure their products were safe before making them public.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM

Ardern delivers final speech

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern bowed out of parliament yesterday, making an impassioned plea during her tearful final speech to “please take the politics out of climate change”.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM

US House speaker meets Taiwan leader

US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was set to sit down with Taiwan’s president yesterday for a highly symbolic meeting in California that has already prompted outrage and dire warnings from China. The meeting outside Los Angeles comes on what is
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM

Four children killed in attack

A 25-year-old attacker burst into a preschool in southern Brazil and killed four children yesterday with a bladed weapon before turning himself in to police, authorities said.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM

UK royals took more than £1b income: revealed

Britain’s King Charles and the late Queen Elizabeth II received payments equivalent to over £1bn from two land and property estates that are at the centre of a debate over whether their profits should be given to the public instead.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM