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A shallow 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit near the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said, with no damage or casualties immediately reported. The tremor hit at 9:43 p.m. local time (1443 GMT) at a depth of 9.9 kilometres, according to the USGS. Indonesia’s geophysics agency (BMKG) reported no immediate tsunami but…
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Commercial vessels including vessels which are part of Black Sea grain deal wait to pass the Bosphorus strait off the shores of Yenikapi in Istanbul, Turkey. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Kremlin said on Saturday it was sticking to its conditions for a return to the Black Sea grain deal which it quit in…
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In this April 21, 2019, file photo, Sri Lankan police officers inspect the site of an explosion at the Shangri-la hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lanka’s Defence Ministry on Saturday defended the country’s intelligence chief after he was accused by a British television channel as the plotter of the 2019…
“The longer it takes, the more people suffer,” said Zelensky. (File) Kyiv, Ukraine: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Friday that “slower” arms shipments from Western countries were threatening his counteroffensive, calling for more powerful and long-range weapons to push back Russian forces. Ukraine launched its counteroffensive in June after stockpiling Western weapons, but has made…
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The military has secured the area and the fragments will be analyzed, said defence ministry. (File) Buscharest, Romania: New fragments of a drone similar to those used by the Russian military were found on Romanian soil, the defence ministry said on Saturday, and President Klaus Iohannis said this indicated an unacceptable breach of Romania’s air…
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TOPSHOT – Ukrainian cadets attend a ceremony for taking the military oath at The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, in Kyiv, on September 8, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. More than 300 cadets took the oath of enlistment. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP) | Photo…
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New Delhi: The G20 in India will be remembered for years to come, not only for the expected conclusions it reached but also the historic extras it generated — like bringing the African Union on the table and producing the global bio-fuel alliance, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said today. The Central theme of this…
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Police patrol in the Chiswick area as the hunt for Daniel Khalife enters its fourth day, in west London, on Sept. 9, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP A former soldier who escaped from a London prison while awaiting trial on terrorism charges was captured Saturday, police said. Daniel Abed Khalife was on the run four…
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Putin noted that the Soviet Union was the first country to recognise the North Korean regime (File) Moscow, Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday on the 75 anniversary of the country’s founding and called for stronger ties “on all fronts”. “I am convinced that thanks to our…
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New Delhi: The G20 meet has adopted the “New Delhi declaration,” seen as a huge win for the country. Reaching a consensus for international groupings has been difficult of late owing the war in Ukraine and divisions over tackling climate change. Here are the Top 10 points in this big story: G20 will work to…
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