Half of Afghan women rarely leave home: UN
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Colombia declares three days mourning for quake victims
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Putin threatens to seize EU vessels if bloc targets Russia’s
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Ex-Chinese PM Zhu Rongji dies aged 97
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Border peace key to ties with China: India
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Mecca defence pact / Erdogan eyes expansion, courts Egypt
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Toyota ex-chief Okuda, pioneer of the Prius, dead at 93
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Pakistan interior minister in Iran to discuss regional security
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New attacks on shipping as Iran war talks hit fresh impasse
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Colombians dig through rubble as quake death toll surpasses 240
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Biden pledges $150m to Asean
US President Joe Biden opened a gathering of Southeast Asian leaders with a promise to spend $150 million on their infrastructure, security, pandemic preparedness and other efforts aimed at countering the influence of rival China.
13 May 2022
Iran nuke talks have ‘reopened’
Stalled negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme have been unblocked after fresh talks in Tehran, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said
13 May 2022
Palestinians bid farewell to slain Al Jazeera journo
Thousands of people packed Jerusalem’s tense Old City yesterday for the burial of veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, after Israeli police stormed the start of the funeral procession.
13 May 2022
Fighting rages in Donbas
Ukrainian forces destroyed parts of a Russian armoured column as it tried to cross a river in the Donbas region, video from Ukraine’s military showed yesterday, as Moscow appeared to be refocusing its assault in the east after a new pushback by Kyiv.
13 May 2022
UAE President Sheikh Khalifa dies aged 73
The United Arab Emirates’ President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan died aged 73 yesterday, state media said, after battling illness for several years.
13 May 2022
One small pot of moon soil, one giant leap for space agriculture
That’s one small pot of soil, one giant leap for man’s knowledge of space agriculture: scientists have for the first time grown plants in lunar soil brought back by astronauts in the Apollo program.
13 May 2022
Israeli police clash with mourners at Al Jazeera journalist's funeral
Israeli police clashed with Palestinian mourners packed around the coffin of killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh at the start of her funeral procession in Jerusalem on Friday.
13 May 2022
Those responsible for killing Al Jazeera journalist Shireen must face justice: DCAB
Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB) has condemned the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead on May 11, 2022, during an Israeli raid in the West Bank.
13 May 2022
UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed passes away
United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has died, the Ministry of Presidential Affairs said on Friday. He was also ruler of Abu Dhabi emirate.
13 May 2022
War in Ukraine: Finland moves to join Nato
Finland must apply to join the Nato military alliance “without delay”, its president and prime minister said yesterday, in a historic policy shift triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
12 May 2022
Milky way’s centre: Astronomers reveal first image of black hole
An international team of astronomers yesterday unveiled the first image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy -- a cosmic body known as Sagittarius A*.
12 May 2022
US mourns one million dead from Covid-19
The United States has crossed the threshold of one million deaths from Covid-19, the White House said yesterday, as the nation seeks to turn the page on the pandemic despite threats of another surge.
12 May 2022
Palestinians honour slain Al Jazeera journo
Thousands of Palestinians yesterday honoured Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at a memorial service in the occupied West Bank, a day after she was shot dead during an Israeli army raid.
12 May 2022
Finland for NATO membership 'without delay'
Finland’s leaders said Thursday they’re in favor of rapidly applying for NATO membership, paving the way for a historic expansion of the alliance that could deal a serious blow to Russia as its military struggles with its war in Ukraine.
12 May 2022
North Korea orders nationwide lockdown as first Covid-19 outbreak reported
North Korea confirmed its first Covid-19 outbreak on Thursday, calling it the "gravest national emergency" and ordering a national lockdown, with state media reporting an Omicron variant had been detected in Pyongyang.
12 May 2022
Al Jazeera journo shot dead in Israeli raid
An Al Jazeera reporter was shot dead during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank yesterday, with Palestinians and the news channel accusing Israel of killing her and Israel’s leader saying she was likely hit by Palestinian fire.
11 May 2022
Ukraine claims battlefield gains
Ukrainian forces reported battlefield gains yesterday in a counterattack that could signal a shift in the momentum of the war, while Kyiv shut gas flows on a route through Russian-held territory, raising the spectre of an energy crisis in Europe.
11 May 2022
Every heatwave enhanced by climate change: experts
All heatwaves today bear the unmistakable and measurable fingerprint of global warming, top experts on quantifying the impact of climate change on extreme weather said Wednesday.
11 May 2022
Great Barrier Reef - Heatwave bleaches 91pc of it: report
A prolonged summer heatwave in Australia left 91 percent of the Great Barrier Reef’s coral damaged by bleaching, according to a new government monitoring report.
11 May 2022
Elon Musk willing to lift Trump’s Twitter ban
Elon Musk said on Tuesday that as owner of Twitter he would lift the ban on Donald Trump, contending that kicking the former US president off the platform “alienated a large part of the country.”
11 May 2022