Joint ministerial meeting discuss GCC-Brazil ties
HE Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, the current President Ministerial Council of the Gulf Cooperation Council...
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Venezuela’s opposition figure flees to Spain to save ‘his life’
Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia – who insists that he, not strongman Nicolas Maduro, is Venezuela’s legitimate president-elect – fled for exile in Spain yesterday to save...
Sudan rejects UN appeal for ‘impartial’ force to protect civilians
Sudan has rejected a call by UN experts for the deployment of an “independent and impartial force” to protect millions of civilians driven from their...
Thousands defy roadblocks in rally for former premier Khan
Thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan gathered in Islamabad on Sunday despite authorities’ attempts to block the protesters’ main routes into...
Greece to tax cruise ship arrivals
Greece plans to impose a €20 levy on cruise ship visitors to the islands of Santorini and Mykonos during the peak summer season, in a...
48 killed in Nigerian fuel truck explosion
At least 48 people were killed yesterday in a fuel tanker truck explosion following a collision with another vehicle in north-central Nigeria, the state’s disaster...
Malaysia calls on global leaders to enhance coordination to fight transnational crime
Malaysia has called on global leaders to further enhance coordination mechanisms among nations to fight transnational crime more effectively.In his keynote address on Monday at...
Trump, Harris tied on eve of televised presidential debate
The US presidential race remains neck-and-neck according to polls released yesterday, two days before Kamala Harris and Donald Trump hold their first – and potentially...
UK PM Keir Starmer launches anti-knife crime coalition
Prime Minister Keir Starmer convened a coalition to stop young people from falling into knife crime on Monday, joined by actor and anti-knife crime campaigner...
UN rights chief warns world risks ‘dystopian future’
The UN rights chief warned Monday that the world needed to change paths to avoid a future filled with military escalation, repression, disinformation, deepening inequality...