France investigates death threats against Israeli athletes at Paris Olympics
Paris [France], July 29: AFP news agency reported on July 28 that French police have opened an investigation after three Israeli athletes received death threats...
Italy 'restarts' relations with China
Rome [Italy], July 29: Italy and China signed a three-year economic cooperation agreement on July 28, following talks between Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and...
Countdown 100 days to US election
Washington [US], July 29: Former US President Donald Trump continued to attack Vice President Kamala Harris yesterday after her late entry slowed his momentum.
Israel vows to strike back after rocket kills 12
Tel Aviv [Israel], July 29: Israel convened its security cabinet on Sunday to discuss responding to a rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that...
Jordan's agricultural exports surge 25% in Jan-May 2024
Amman [Jordan], July 29: The Minister of Agriculture of Jordan, Khaled Hunaifat, announced on Sunday that the national agricultural exports have reached half a billion...
15 killed as rainstorms pound parts of China
Beijing [China], July 29: Torrential rain has triggered landslides and rising water levels in major rivers in many parts of China, killing 15 people and...
UAE Team Emirates' Hirschi takes overall Czech Tour title
Olomouc [Czechia], July 29: Marc Hirschi of UAE Team Emirates showed poise to take home the overall victory at the Czech Tour today on stage...
NASA, SpaceX target Aug. 18 to launch crew rotation mission
New York [US], July 28: SpaceX and NASA said on Friday they planned to launch the SpaceX Crew-9 mission, a crew rotation mission to the...
Park Fire explodes in size, among largest in California's history
California [US], July 28: A massive wildfire torching Northern California, known as Park Fire, has quickly grown to nearly 1,400 square kilometers in just three...
Central Tokyo condo prices down 16 pct in Jan.-June
Tokyo [Japan], July 28: The average price of a new condominium in central Tokyo in the first half of 2024 dropped 16.3 percent from a...
11 injured after leisure fishing boat hits breakwater in western Japan
Tokyo [Japan], July 28: A leisure fishing boat in Tottori Prefecture in western Japan hit the breakwater on Sunday, with all 11 people injured including...
Coastguard says oil leak detected from sunken tanker in the Philippines
Manila [Philippines], July 28: The Philippine coastguard reported on Saturday that a portion of the 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil from a tanker...
Paris-Germany trains back on schedule after arson attacks
Paris [France], July 28: Train services between Paris and Germany have resumed their normal schedule following recent arson attacks on the high-speed railway in France,...
Eight dead as car hits pedestrians in central Chinese city of Changsha
Beijing [China], July 28: A car driver has ploughed into a crowd of people in the central Chinese city of Changsha, killing eight people,...
Former presidents looking to observe Venezuela election denied entry
Caracas [Venenzuela], July 28: A plane carrying four former Latin American presidents planning to observe Sunday's presidential election in Venezuela has not been allowed to...
President Zelensky says situation on Ukraine's eastern front is difficult
Kyiv [Ukraine], July 28: The Ukrainian armed forces are under heavy pressure from Russian attacks in the east of the country, President Volodymyr Zelensky said...
Bangladesh authorities detain protest leaders
Dhaka [Bangladesh], July 28: Bangladeshi authorities have taken three student leaders, who helped coordinate rallies against government job quotas, from a hospital following days of...
Korean War victory anniversary
Pyongyang [North Korea], July 28: A photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un laying a...
French bishops, Russian Church criticize Olympic opening ceremony
Paris [France], July 28: The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris has been criticized by the Catholic Church in France as insulting to...
Leader of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel arrested in Texas
Dallas (Texas) [US], July 28: One of the world's most powerful drug lords, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, has been arrested...
At least 30 dead in Gaza school airstrike, Israel says targeted militants
Tel Aviv [Israel], July 28: At least 30 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced people in Gaza on Saturday,...
Israel says Hezbollah rocket kills 11 at football ground, vows response
Tel Aviv [Israel], July 28: A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 11 people including children on Saturday, Israeli...
Trump tells Christians they won't have to vote after this election
Washington [US], July 28: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Christians on Friday that if they vote for him this November, "in four years, you...
Fourth UAE aid ship bound for Gaza arrives at Al Arish Port...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], July 28: The fourth UAE aid ship bound for Gaza arrived on Thursday at the port of Arish in the Egyptian governorate...
French rail sabotage causes chaos as Paris Olympics open
Paris [France], July 27: Streets in the centre of Paris have been blocked off, metro stations closed and thousands of police, soldiers and other guards...
Finland probes suspected violation of territorial waters by Russian vessel
Helsinki [Finland], July 27: Finland suspects a Russian vessel to have violated Finnish territorial waters in the Gulf of Finland on Friday.
EU takes action against 7 states for violating budget regulations
Brussels [Belgium], July 27: The European Council on Friday placed France and six other European Union (EU) member states under formal procedures, urging them to...