JERUSALEM, May 24 (Reuters): Benjamin Netanyahu professed his innocence at the start of his corruption trial on Sunday, saying he was being framed in the first criminal prosecution of a serving Israeli pri
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JAKARTA, May 24 (Reuters): For Indonesia's 225 million Muslims, celebrating Eid al-Fitr this year, the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, is bittersweet. Many are forced to spend it
WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters): Nearly 200 political figures from around the world on Saturday decried Beijing's proposed national security laws for Hong Kong, including 17 members of the U.S. Congress,
KABUL, May 24 (Reuters): The Taliban declared a three-day Eid ceasefire in Afghanistan starting Sunday, via a tweet on Saturday from the hardline Islamist group, and the country's president said the go
JERUSALEM, May 24 (Reuters): A week after being sworn into office for a fifth term, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes on trial on Sunday, charged with corruption. WHAT ARE THE CHARGES
DUBAI, May 24 (Reuters): A 107-year-old Iranian woman who was infected with the new coronavirus has recovered, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday. The woman, Saltanat
JERUSALEM, May 24 (Reuters): The corruption trial of Benjamin Netanyahu opens on Sunday in a Jerusalem court, where he will become the first serving Israeli prime minister to face criminal prosecution, in
London, May 24 (IANS): Amid growing calls for him to resign for travelling during the COVID-19 restrictions, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief aide Dominic Cummings was now facing fresh allegations th
May 24 SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China recorded three new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the mainland for May 23, following the first day with no new cases since the outbreak began, the National Health Commission (NHC)
HONG KONG, May 24 (Reuters) - Hong Kong braced on Sunday for its first protests since Beijing’s controversial plan to directly impose national security laws on the city, in what could provide a litmus tes
Seoul, May 24 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over a Central Military Commission meeting and discussed "new policies for further increasing the nuclear war deterrence of the country",
Washington, May 24 (IANS) The overall number of global coronavirus cases has increased to over 5.3 million, while the death toll surged past 342,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As o
KARACHI, Pakistan, MAy 23 (Reuters): The flight data recorder from the Pakistani airliner that crashed into a residential neighbourhood of Karachi has been found, an official said on Saturday, as the
Washington, May 23 (IANS): NASA is seeking US citizens for an eight-month study on social isolation in preparation for missions to Mars and the moon. The international space agency is preparing for its
HONG KONG/BEIJING, May 23 (Reuters): China's foreign ministry branch in Hong Kong dismissed concerns that its proposed national security laws for the city would harm foreign investors, hitting back at
GAZA, May 23 (Reuters): A woman has died in Gaza Strip after contracting coronavirus, the Palestinian enclave's first known fatality from the global pandemic, the health ministry said on Saturday. &
HONG KONG, May 23 (Reuters): For Chinese leader Xi Jinping it is a high-stakes power play. His move to impose tough national security laws on Hong Kong risks reigniting pro-democracy protests that plunged
Beijing, May 23 (IANS): China did not register any new confirmed COVID-19 cases for the first time since the pandemic began and detected only two suspicious cases, the countrys National Health Commission report
Ottawa, May 23 (IANS): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that his government was ready to track the contacts of those who test positive for COVID-19 by making tracing calls every day.
Karachi, May 23 (IANS): Pakistan's Sindh government on Saturday confirmed that 97 bodies were recovered from the debris of the plane crash that took place a day earlier in a residential area in Karachi near
