UK foreign minister raises BBC tax searches, India says laws are for...
New Delhi [India], March 2: British Foreign Minister James Cleverly raised the issue of tax searches at the BBC's offices in India during a meeting...
Sunak pitches new Brexit vision to Northern Ireland and his lawmakers
London [UK], March 2: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was in Northern Ireland and then met with his own lawmakers to sell his new deal...
After Italian migrant boat wreck, police arrest three alleged traffickers
Rome [Italy], March 2: Italian authorities arrested three people and were looking for a fourth suspect who they believe trafficked up to 200 migrants aboard...
Nigeria's Tinubu defends win in disputed presidential vote
Abuja [Nigeria], March 2: Nigeria's new president-elect, Bola Tinubu, defended the election he just won as credible on Wednesday but Peter Obi, one of his...
Hours after deadly train crash, Greece agonises over what went wrong
Athens [Greece], March 2:Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called it an unspeakable tragedy but questions are being asked whether the fatal collision of passenger and...
Netanyahu under pressure from U.S., Israeli protests grow
Jerusalem [Israel], March 2:Israel's closest ally the United States demanded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repudiate a call by his hardline Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich for...
Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah meets President of Azerbaijan
Baku [Azerbaijan], March 2: H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, met today with IlhamAliyev, President...
Mansour bin Zayed receives Chief of Mongolian Presidential Court
Abu Dhabi [UAE], March 2: H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, today received the Chief...
Two Syrian children receiving medical treatment in UAE under directives of Sheikha...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], March 2: Under the directives of Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women's Union, President of the Supreme...
Iranian armed forces launched large-scale air defensemaneuver
Tehran [Iran], March 1: Iran's armed forces on Tuesday started a large-scale real-combat air defensemaneuver in the country to show their preparedness of defending the...
Criminal complaints filed against Japan's ad giant Dentsu, others over Olympics bid-rigging
Tokyo [Japan], March 1: Japan's antitrust watchdog on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against advertising giant Dentsu Group Inc., five other companies and a high...
Thunberg demonstrates against wind farm, for indigenous rights
Copenhagen [Denmark], March 1: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has demonstrated in Oslo against a Norwegian wind farm that a court has ruled violates...
Istanbul hospitals evacuated due to earthquake effects
Istanbul [Turkey], March 1: Authorities in Istanbul have begun evacuating two city hospitals due to structural damage and decreased safety caused by the recent massive...
Danish parliament votes to abolish public holiday - the Great Prayer Day
Copenhagen [Denmark], March 1: A majority of the Danish parliament on Tuesday voted in favour of abolishing the public holiday the Great Prayer Day.
'Time is now' to let Finland, Sweden join NATO: Stoltenberg
Brussels [Belgium], March 1: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday reiterated his call for Turkey and Hungary to let Finland and Sweden join the...
Pro-UK party in N Ireland urged to back Brexit deal
London [UK], March 1: Leading politicians in Northern Ireland's parliament called on the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to make decision over a trade agreement to...
Shooting injures two people in front of elementary school in Germany
Berlin [Germany], March 1: German police announced Tuesday that two people were seriously injured in a shooting spree near an elementary school in Bramasche, in...
Moroccans struggle to afford vegetables as Ramadan looms
Sale[Morocco], March 1: Shoppers inspect vegetables at a huge market in Sale, near the Moroccan capital Rabat, but exploding prices mean they are keeping their...
Hong Kong to scrap COVID mask mandate from today
Hong Kong, March 1:Hong Kong will drop its COVID-19 mask mandate, chief executive John Lee said yesterday, in a move to lure back visitors and...
Indonesia vows restraint as troops surround separatists holding NZ pilot
Jakarta [Indonesia], March 1: Security forces in Indonesia's restive Papua region have surrounded separatists holding captive a New Zealand pilot, but will exercise restraint while...
Russians tighten noose on Ukraine's Bakhmut, Putin warns of Western espionage
Moscow [Russia], March 1: Russian forces on Tuesday pressed forward their weeks-long drive to encircle and capture the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, where the...
80 Afghan citizens dead in Italian shipwreck - Taliban foreign ministry
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 1: Afghanistan's Taliban-led foreign ministry said on Tuesday that 80 Afghan citizens, including children, had died in Sunday's shipwreck off the southern...
Russia, US bicker at UN over donating fertilizer to Syria
Damascus [Syria], March 1: Russia and the United States bickered on Tuesday over whether Russian fertilizer could be donated to Syria as Moscow heightens complaints...
US Supreme Court conservatives question Biden student debt relief
Washington [US], March 1: Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaledskepticism over the legality of President Joe Biden's plan to cancel $430 billion in student debt...
US House Democrat opposes giving Biden power to ban TikTok
Washington [US], March 1: The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said he opposes a Republican bill that would give President Joe Biden...
UAE President receives Ruler of Fujairah
Abu Dhabi [UAE], March 1: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan received today, at Qasr Al Bahr Majlis, H.H. Sheikh Hamad bin...
FAB facilitated over $9 bn worth of sustainable projects in 2022: CEO
Abu Dhabi [UAE], March 1: Hana Al Rostamani, Group Chief Executive Officer of FAB said that throughout 2022 the bank continued to build and leverage...