Cambodia parliament passes law on citizenship
Bangkok [Thailand], August 26: Cambodia's parliament on Monday passed a controversial law that allows citizens to be stripped of their citizenship for "co-operation with foreign...
Polish president vetoes bill on social benefits for Ukrainians
Warsaw [Poland], August 26: Polish President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed a bill to extend social benefits for Ukrainian refugees.
German FM warns Putin against playing for time in Ukraine war
Zagreb [Croatia], August 26: German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Monday called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to engage in swift negotiations with Ukrainian President...
Death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Yemen climbs to 10
Jerusalem [Israel], August 26: The death toll from the latest Israeli airstrikes on Yemen has risen to 10, authorities said on Monday.
Typhoon Kajiki hits Vietnamese coastline
Hanoi [Vietnam], August 26: Typhoon Kajiki made landfall in Vietnam on Monday, battering coastal areas of the South-East Asian country with strong winds and heavy...
French police hold suspect after bodies of four men found in River...
Paris [France], August 26: French police have detained a man on suspicion of murder after the discovery of four men's bodies in the River Seine...
Trump wants to meet North Korea's Kim this year, he tells South...
Pyongyang [North Korea], August 26: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he wanted to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this year...
French government risks collapse with budget confidence vote in September
Paris [France], August 26: France's minority government could be ousted next month after three main opposition parties said they would not back a confidence vote...
Israel hits Gaza hospital, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists
Gaza [Gaza City], August 26: Israel struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 20 people, including five...
Israel pounds Gaza City suburbs, vows to press on with offensive
Jerusalem [Israel], August 25: Israeli planes and tanks pounded the eastern and northern outskirts of Gaza City overnight Saturday to Sunday, destroying buildings and homes,...
Trump crime crackdown deploys troops in Washington's safest sites
New York [US], August 25: Hundreds of National Guard soldiers in military fatigues and combat boots mingled with tourists, posed for selfies, and treated themselves...
Pakistan: Flash floods ravage Buner, Swat; 60% families lose livelihoods
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 25: A recent evaluation conducted by the humanitarian organisation Islamic Relief indicates that 60 per cent of families in the severely affected...
Ukrainian drone hits Russian plant, sparks Ust-Luga fire
Kiev [Ukraine], August 25: Ukraine launched a drone attack on Russia on Sunday, forcing a sharp fall in the capacity of a reactor at one...
Sri Lanka ex-President Wickremesinghe hospitalised after arrest
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 25: Sri Lanka's jailed former president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, was hospitalised on Saturday, local media reported, a day after his arrest on...
China: Under-construction bridge collapses, 12 workers dead, 4 missing
Qinghai [China], August 25: At least 12 construction workers were killed after a steel cable snapped during bridge construction in northwest China's Qinghai Province. Four...
How Florida is rebuilding for a stormy, costly future
Florida [US], August 25: "The road was a raging river. It was like the ocean," recalled Maria Blancett. "There were white caps going down the...
Trump's plan to send troops to Chicago is abuse of power: Illinois...
New York [US], August 25: President Donald Trump's plan to deploy troops to Chicago is an abuse of power, the Democratic governor of the US...
Asylum protests in UK as govt plans new process
London [UK], August 25: Protests continued in the UK on Sunday over the use of hotels to house asylum seekers as the government set out...
Over 500,000 to be evacuated as typhoon nears Vietnam
Hanoi [Vietnam], August 25: More than 150,000 households are set to be evacuated as Vietnam braces for the landfall from Typhoon Kajiki, with some 587,000...
UN's OCHA warns of man-made Gaza famine, calls for ceasefire
Gaza [Palestine], August 25: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that famine in Gaza is "man-made" and called for...
Israel launches massive strikes on Yemen
Sana'a [Yemen], August 25: Two people were killed and 35 injured as Israel launched massive airstrikes on Yemen's capital Sana'a on Sunday, the Houthi-run Health...
Iran will stand up to US demands to be 'obedient', says Khamenei
Tehran [Iran], August 25: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that the United States wants Tehran "to be obedient" to it, but the...
N Korea's Kim oversees test-firing of new air defence missiles
Pyongyang [North Korea], August 25: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen the firing of two new air defence missiles, state media reported, announcing that...
Seven drown near popular Egyptian summer resort: Local media
Cairo [Egypt], August 25: Rescuers pulled another dead body from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Sunday, bringing...
Allies express support for Ukraine as Zelensky marks Independence Day
Kiev [Ukraine], August 25: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated his compatriots on Independence Day on Sunday, exactly three and a half years after the war...
US scales down contested military presence in Iraq, say sources
Baghdad [Iraq], August 25: US troops have begun withdrawing from bases in Iraq, where their presence as part of an international coalition fighting Islamic State...
Moscow and Kiev swap 146 POWs
Moscow [Russia], August 25: Russia and Ukraine have carried out another exchange of prisoners of war, the Defence Ministry in Moscow said on Sunday.