DUBAI, Feb 18 - Iran issued a notice to airmen (NOTAM) that it plans rocket launches in areas across its south on Thursday from 330 GMT to 1330 GMT, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration website showed on Wednesday.
BERLIN, Feb 18 - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday he would seek \"strategic partnerships\" with China during a trip next week, as he looks to discuss future cooperation between Europe and the world's second-biggest economy while the United States leans on
MOSCOW, Feb 18 - Russian President Vladimir Putin met Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Wednesday in the Kremlin, where he said that new restrictions imposed on the communist-run island were \"unacceptable\", Russian state news agencies reported.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is a real estate man. He knows when he’s being played – and the British are doing their best to play him over some Indian Ocean real estate that’s little known but immensely important to the United States. The Chagos Archipelago – which
The international economic system is undergoing a structural transformation marked by intensifying US-China strategic and economic rivalry, supply chain fragmentation, technological bloc formation, demographic asymmetries, and the gradual reconfiguration of globalization.
NAIROBI, Feb 18 - British authorities on Wednesday issued removal orders against four Chagossians who landed this week on a remote atoll in the Chagos Archipelago in a move they hoped would complicate British plans to transfer the territory to Mauritius.
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 18 - Four South African men who were lured into fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine landed at Johannesburg's main airport on Wednesday, public broadcaster the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported.
Duterte is detained in a Dutch prison complex in the district of Scheveningen.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's goals include an increase in military power, more government spending and strengthened conservative social policies.
BEIJING, Feb 18 - Twelve people were killed on Wednesday when a store selling firecrackers exploded and caught fire in China's Hubei province, burning 50 square metres of the premises, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Nvidia – the world’s most valuable company – said it was teaming up with three Indian cloud computing providers.
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18 - Before Pakistan commits to sending troops to Gaza as part of the International Stabilization Force it wants assurances from the United States that it will be a peacekeeping mission rather than tasked with disarming Hamas, three sources told Reuters.
HELSINKI, Feb 18 - The EU-India trade deal will create opportunities and is what the world needs instead of tariffs, Finland's Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said, after meeting with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday.
When Lithuania challenged China over Taiwan four years ago, it expected argument or outrage. It got silence. What began as a bold stand for democracy and human rights collided head-on with China’s unyielding One China principle. In 2021, Lithuania tested one of China’s most
The suspect said he never imagined that his actions would cause such a huge disturbance to students.
The victim was playing with the fireworks in front of his house amid Chinese New Year celebrations.
MOSCOW, Feb 18 - Russia is demanding that European countries who accused Moscow of poisoning Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny with a dart frog toxin provide concrete data to support their allegation, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
BANGKOK, Feb 18 - Thailand hopes to bring Myanmar back into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) nearly five years after a military coup, Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow said on Wednesday after meeting his Myanmar counterpart.
BEIJING, Feb 18 - Twelve people were killed on Wednesday when a store selling firecrackers exploded and caught fire in China's Hubei province, burning 50 square metres of the premises, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Rescuers alerted the pair to the large predator slipping through the waters on Feb 15.
A professor claimed that a robotic dog made by Chinese firm Unitree had been made by the university.
The authorities will attempt to recover the bodies, the local fire department said.
VARADERO BEACH, Cuba, Feb 18 - Cuba's Varadero peninsula is a postcard of a tropical paradise: turquoise waters, powder-white sand and palm trees.
More divisions had reportedly announced plans to dissolve after the expulsion of deputy president Hamzah Zainudin.
The ban will extend to charging smartphones via onboard power outlets.
MOSCOW, Feb 18 - Russia's chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said on Wednesday that U.S.-mediated peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Geneva had been difficult but business-like, and that a new round of talks would be held soon.
BERLIN, Feb 18 - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has questioned whether developing a manned sixth-generation fighter jet still makes sense for his country's air force, referring to the troubled FCAS project that seeks to build such a jet.
ANKARA, Feb 18 - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will travel to Washington in lieu of President Tayyip Erdogan for the inaugural meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump's \"Board of Peace\" on Thursday, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
China accused the United States of “using Tibet-related issues to interfere in China’s internal affairs”.
The cyberattack in September caused a system failure, forcing Asahi to suspend shipments of beer and food products.
The new leader faces no shortage of issues domestically and in the near abroad that need urgent tending and deft handling.
MOSCOW, Feb 18 - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that neither China nor Russia havecarried out secret nuclear tests, noting Beijing had denied U.S. accusations that it had done so.
By any honest reading of history, the international monetary system was never neutral. It was a political settlement, forged in 1944 at Bretton Woods, that elevated one country’s currency to the status of global money. That settlement—shaped by the ideas of Harry Dexter White
Myanmar has been mired in nationwide conflict and repression since a military coup in 2021.
The eight-year-old female shorthair named Pepsi, had been collapsing as many as four times a day pre-procedure.
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved the bipartisan No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act, marking a significant legislative move to prevent American taxpayer funds from directly or indirectly benefiting the Taliban or other designated terrorist groups in
Some couples have said they even considered significant changes to their wedding plans.
DUBAI, Feb 18 - The departure of the chief executive of Dubai port giant DP World is the biggest fallout in the Middle East from U.S. Department of Justice documents which show that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein tried to build a powerful network of political figures and
The robot – a model sold by China's Unitree – appeared at a booth run by Galgotias University.
The impact has rippled through Japan’s retail sector, with duty-free sales falling.
The discount will be available starting Feb 18.
The country has not carried out capital punishment in almost three decades, despite its courts continuing to hand down death sentences.
The 50-member Cabinet announced in a gazette notification issued late on Feb 17.
GENEVA, Feb 18 - Peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in Geneva ended abruptly on Wednesday after only two hours, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy saying that the discussions had been \"difficult\" and accusing Russia of deliberately seeking to delay progress
The person temporarily banned is among a group of 34 who this week attempted to leave the camp for Australia.
