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Manila: The Philippines on Saturday praised its removal from a global financial "grey list" of countries under increased monitoring for money laundering and...

Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for strong ties with the US following a meeting with US envoy Keith Kellogg in Kyiv. This...

Geneva: Around 42,000 people have fled the conflict raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and crossed into Burundi in the past two...

Doha, Qatar: Oman has achieved a significant milestone by ranking 8th globally in the 2023/2024 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) report, improving from the...

Seoul: South Korea has asked Washington to exclude it from planned US tariffs on steel and aluminium, Seoul's trade ministry said Friday. US...

Paris: French police will start random searches for knives and other weapons concealed in bags at and around schools in a bid to...

Stockholm: Swedish authorities said Friday they were investigating suspected damage to an underwater cable in the Baltic Sea, following a string of incidents...

Shanghai: Chinese tech companies shrugged off foreign scrutiny of upstart chatbot maker DeepSeek, telling AFP on Friday they were confident the country's tech...

Tokyo: Japan's cabinet approved a bill Friday allowing hunters to shoot bears in populated areas at their own discretion after human encounters with...

Tokyo: Only around one in six Japanese citizens hold valid passports, fresh data shows, with the number of residents travelling abroad slowly recovering...

Pontianak, Indonesia: A boy is missing on Indonesia's Borneo island after he was attacked by a crocodile, police said on Thursday, the second...

Tokyo: Residents of northern Japan were sheltering from deep snow up to the rooftops in some areas on Thursday after a two-week whiteout....

Prague: A 16-year-old boy killed two women in a knife attack in a shop in the Czech Republic on Thursday morning, police said,...

Stockholm: Swedish police said Thursday they were looking for information on how the gunman responsible for Sweden's worst mass shooting spent the final...

Paris: France's parliament on Thursday voted to limit the production and sale of some items containing polluting and health-threatening "forever chemicals" including cosmetics,...

Seoul: South Korea's ousted premier said Thursday that he had opposed suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law, testifying for the...

Lagos: Nigeria will ban large fuel trucks from its roads after a series of deadly tanker explosions killed hundreds in recent months. Road...

New Delhi: A member ofIndia's ruling Hindu-nationalist party was sworn in Thursday as chief minister of Delhi after an election landslide handed it...