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Oil prices rose more than 3% on Tuesday, continuing to rebound from a sudden rise in hostilities in the Middle East, after extended trading after-hours. The market rampage came after
The Mexican government said it will seek criminal charges in the U.S. in the deaths of 17 Mexican nationals. They were all deaths that happened during immigration operations or immigration
Preliminary data released on 30th June by the statistics agency INSEE showed French inflation ended its streak of over two years at a high with a retreat in energy costs,
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The British Council has launched the 2026 funding round of its Cultural Protection Fund, which will accept applications from eligible organisations for grants of up to £500,000 to help countries
Controversial laptop deal The former education minister for Indonesia, Nadiem Makarim, and his co-founder, the super-app entrepreneur from Southeast Asia Gojek, have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for
The United Kingdom sort of announced this big Defense Investment Plan, with a £15 billion ( $20 billion) boost in spending. What’s next for the British military is expected to
The Kansas City Chiefs have released a newly updated economic projection outlining the staggering economic impact the team will have when it moves to Kansas. Tuesday’s report noted the vast
A federal judge in Massachusetts has halted a Trump administration effort to allow political appointees to have a bigger say in the voting process at federal agencies‘ union elections. The
The months-long heat wave in June, which set some European temperature records, has put pressure on accepting global warming in a continent that’s used to a relatively mild climate and
Canada will be part of the colourful Eurovision Song Contest next year, organisers of the world-famous music festival announced on Wednesday. They also snapped up a new country, this time
The U.S. military has built up a strong presence of U.S. troops in and around Venezuela to assist relief efforts, and they now have a war footprint of more than
The nine-month lag that Britain has suffered in finalising its plans for military defence has dealt a harsh blow to the country’s military supply base. The government is having difficulty
India and Japan have signed a series of strategic pacts to further strengthen bilateral ties in various fields, including defence, maritime security and economics. The announcements came as a result
The Supreme Court has, in a landmark judgment, relaxed the guidelines on financial and organizational coordination between the political parties and their candidates. The conservative majority ruled that the former
A letter inviting leaders of a number of countries to participate in a so-called U.S.-led Board of Peace took place on 17th January and would initially seek to stop conflict
Thursday session in the U.N. Security Council convened an emergency meeting to deliberate on the fatal protests in Iran at the behest of the United States, although President Donald Trump
Uganda’s elections came to an end on 15th January after a turbulent day of voting during which the internet was shut down, and there were lengthy delays due to technical
One of the highest-ranking Danish officials opined on 14th January that the most fundamental of the disagreements with President Donald Trump about Greenland is still there after meeting with the
The European Commission (EC) is drawing up new sanctions on Iran due to the ongoing riot control operations in the nation and is completely in support of the protesters, EC
The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, promised on 9th January that the Islamic Republic would not retreat under the largest protests in years past, and authorities tightened an
On 9th January, Pope Leo condemned the application of military strength as a tool of pursuing diplomatic ends with an unusually angry annual foreign policy speech, where he also demanded
Russia on 8th January, days after France and the UK vowed to send troops to Ukraine in case of a peace agreement, reiterated its long-standing stance of declaring the Western
President Donald Trump issued a warning to Republicans on 6th January that unless they retain their control of Congress during this year’s midterm elections, the Democrats will have him impeached
Provisional results of the electoral commission announced on Monday showed that a third term of office has been won by the President of the Central African Republic, Faustin-Archange Touadera, who
The first occurrence in a U.S. courtroom of Nicolás Maduro provided an insight into the forthcoming legal battle over the questions to be addressed infrequently, with the primary one being
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the leader of Iran, is said to intend to fly to Moscow in case his security agents betray him or rebel against him due to the current
In his speech as the newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani affirmed that he was the one who would reinvent New York City and bring a new generation to the city,
In the early morning, President Trump claimed that the United States had conducted airstrikes on Venezuela and seized President Nicolás Maduro and his wife after a series of explosions and
When asked whether the military action by US leader Donald Trump against Venezuela might have violated international law, Labour leader Keir Starmer has not given an outright response. During an
France has called for NATO to hold a military exercise in Greenland. The French presidency said the country is ready to take part. The statement comes as tensions rise over
The Chief of Defence Staff of India, General Anil Chauhan, has published a new policy framework detailing the way quantum technologies will find their way into the nation’s armed forces
The United Nations (UN) indicates that it will assume control of a camp in north-eastern Syria that has thousands of people who are suspected of having connections to the jihadist
On the visit, Colonel General Karim Valiyev, the First Deputy Minister of Defense and Chief of the General Staff of Azerbaijan Army, received meetings with the Department of the Prime
In the near future, several aircraft of the North American Joint Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) will land on an American military base in Greenland as Washington threatens to annex Greenland.
The Pentagon announced on 15th January that it is transforming the independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes into one that focuses on “reporting to our warfighters” and no longer includes
The Joint Arctic Command base in Greenland, in Denmark, is not concerned with the U.S. military threats; it is concerned with potential Russian activity, its head, Major General Soren Andersen,
Military officials announced on 15th January that the US military has taken another oil tanker at sea to enforce its sanctions against Venezuela, as the sanctions were announced by Donald
On 14th January, the defense ministry once again endorsed the special defense budget proposed to be funded between 2026 and 2033 in the value of NT 1.25 trillion (USD 39.5 […]
The Russian government announced on 13th January, four days after its last major drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, that it was launching another attack on the power grid in
Pakistan has had final negotiations to sell a deal of $1.5 billion to provide arms and jets to Sudan, a former senior official in Pakistan Air Force and three sources
Officials reported that Russia overnight tested Ukraine by bombing it with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles, killing at least four people in the capital. It made only the
The Syrian Army conducts the operation against the SDF controlled by the YPG terrorist group in the city of Aleppo completely, and the developments are observed, the Turkish Ministry of
The warships of some members of the BRICS group of third-world countries were sent to a naval exercise in the waters of Cape Town, which has put host South Africa
On 5th January, the military announced that the IDF had taken the first steps to attack Hezbollah and Hamas terror targets in Lebanon, hours after it had warned that it
The second occasion was on 13th January, when French farmers brought their tractors to Paris one week after another to protest against an EU-Mercosur trade agreement that they claim endangers
The Government of Niger State has given a two-month warning to the families residing in hamlets near the Kainji Lake to clear out of the region and be reestablished by
On 14th January, the government announced that it has closed the British embassy in Tehran, which has been closed on a temporary basis. “The British Embassy in Tehran has temporarily
On 6th January, thousands of farmers throughout Ireland came to the town of Athlone to take part in a rolling tractor protest and hold a large national protest against the
On 10th January, the authorities of Iran implied that they may cut back their crackdown on the largest anti-government protests in decades, where the Revolutionary Guards attribute the instability to
In Argentina, the situation in a sparsely populated district of Patagonia had been devastated by wildfires, and authorities in the south had evacuated some 3,000 tourists, officials said on 7th
On 8th January, the Interior Ministry said that about 100 tractors were in place in the capital at a number of symbolic sites, such as in front of the Eiffel
The West African country of Burkina Faso has announced that a plot to assassinate the military leader of the country, Capt Ibrahim Traore, has been averted. The military officer overthrown
Rebels allied to the Islamic State murdered at least 15 individuals in three villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the Lubero territory on 2nd January, continuing the
On 2nd January, a powerful earthquake hit southern Mexico, damaging roads and hospitals and temporarily halting the first press conference of the new year during which President Claudia Sheinbaum was
Four people are thought to be trapped beneath a multi-story building after it collapsed in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi. On Friday, Jan. 2, the Kenya Red Cross said,
Victims of the disastrous bar fire in the luxury Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana are under special burns treatment in special burns units spread throughout Europe, and investigators estimate that
On 1st January, the most recent among a series of attacks on small-scale gold miners in the Andean country, at least three people were killed in an attack on informal
Nigeria’s state oil company NNPC Ltd reported that on December 10, an explosion at its major Escravos-Lagos gas pipeline had affected the operations and had led to an emergency response.
Two four-story buildings adjacent to each other in the Moroccan city of Fez collapsed overnight, and 22 people are dead, in the second time this year that buildings in the
Chinese manufacturersfUS are developing all over the world with cheap and high-technology electric cars, and the latest development in Canada to provide some farm trade concessions in exchange for easing
The world economy is becoming even more resilient than anticipated, with the growth of the economy projected in 2026 to be slightly better than it was projected last June, the
The cost of oil rose by over 2% on 13th January as the likelihood of the Iranian crude export being interrupted overshadowed the potential of increased supply in Venezuela. The
Industrial output in Germany has increased unannounced, as per the records of the federal statistics company Destatis; monthly output has increased by 0.8 per cent in November, which was contrary
Annual inflation in consumer prices of China gained momentum to a 34-month high in December, yet the overall rate fell to the lowest in 16 years as producer deflation remained,
According to an annual assessment of the United Nations, global economic growth will decline slightly in 2026 as tariffs under President Donald Trump would have a stronger effect and geopolitical
The largest volume of capital was also raised by the gold and silver mining companies in the last year during the sale of shares, which is more than 10 years,
The economy of India will continue to be one of the fastest-growing major economies in the world, with a growth projected at 7.4 per cent in 2025, according to the
The red metal kept gaining a steady but impressive upward momentum, approaching lifetime highs, a strong combination of structural demand, supply tightness, and deep-rooted investor interest. The copper futures contract
Major stock indices and oil prices increased on 5th January. Energy stocks rose, and investors responded calmly to the potential consequences of a U.S. attack that apprehended the Venezuelan president
US $4.6 billion (RM18.65billion) of electronics component investments in India have been given clearance as the Narendra Modi government tries to establish local supply chains and compete with China. Under
On 31st December, the Saudi Arabia National Debt Management center announced that it had completed the process of arranging a $13 billion, seven-year syndicated loan to fund power, water, and
The economy of Singapore increased 5.7 per cent in the fourth quarter compared to a year ago, boosting the full-year growth in the GDP to the highest in 2021, with
Inflation on consumer prices in Pakistan decreased to 5.6% annually in December, and prices declined in the month of December, according to official data released on 1st January. The data
President Donald Trump announced that he planned to impose fresh 100 percent tariffs on Chinese imports starting next month as a retaliatory measure to what he described as aggressive actions
On 13th March, EU countries supported a ban on AI that creates sexualised deepfakes, and it was sparked by an uproar over such images created by an AI chatbot, Grok,
In an eventual move in reclaiming cultural heritage, on Friday, traditional chiefs in crowns and gold chains assembled in Ivory Coast main airport as the first of a larger initiative
On 12th March, China enacted a law on a so-called “shared” national identity among the 55 ethnic minority groups that make up the nation, providing critics with a chance to
Ethiopia perhaps has no place as closely related to coffee as it is. It is the birth of coffee, the cradle on which Kaldi and his goats were known to
The representatives of 22 states urged the organisers of the exhibition not to grant Russia a cultural platform. It is the first time that Russia has tried to get back
Moltbook is a social networking platform designed to support artificial intelligence agents, acquired by Meta, which has brought the founders of the company into its AI research department. In accordance
Trying to answer what makes Exeter special, one might refer to such old buildings as Exeter Cathedral or probably even its Roman history. The organisers of its City of Culture
The MPs have opposed an Australia-style ban on social media under-16s, and have supported a flexible ministerial authority. MPs reject call for under-16s social media ban, backing more flexible powers
UNESCO has again sounded a grave alarm and has shown its great concern over the ongoing war in the Middle East, saying the war is exposing some of the most
Over the upcoming days, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus will all be visible concurrently during the night sky, though binoculars or a telescope will be necessary to view
In 2025, the national police agency (NPA) released figures on the number of elementary school children in Japan who became victims of sex crimes and other offences due to social
Azerbaijan will implement age limits to access social networks, as a new presidential order is supposed to protect children against harmful online content. It is a document signed by
On 17 May 2014, at first reading, the parliamentary Committee on Culture and Media passed a bill to ratify an agreement between Bulgaria and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
As a part of the expanded parental supervision features, Instagram will soon start notifying parents in case a teenager searches the app more than once in a short time to
In Belarus, it will be held in 2026, the Days of Culture of the Republic of Tajikistan, in the comments of Permanent Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to
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