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Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer take part in the BBC’s Prime Ministerial Debate, in Nottingham, England, on June 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP In a final and noisy pre-election debate on Wednesday night, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and opposition Labour Party Leader, Keir Starmer, argued loudly…
The United States and China resumed semi-official nuclear arms talks in March for the first time in five years, with Beijing’s representatives telling U.S. counterparts that they would not resort to atomic threats over Taiwan, according to two American delegates who attended. The Chinese representatives offered reassurances after their U.S. interlocutors raised concerns that China…
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File picture of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) force attending a rally in Tehran, Iran | Photo Credit: via Reuters Iran condemned Canada’s listing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation as “an unwise and unconventional politically-motivated step,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news…
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The boat was sailing in a border area where Greece and Italy carry out search-and-rescue operations. | Photo Credit: AP Sixty-four people were missing in the Mediterranean Sea and several were rescued after their ship wrecked off Italy’s southern coast on Monday, United Nations’ agencies said in a statement. In a separate shipwreck, rescue workers…
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File picture of the International Atomic Energy Agency flag at the organisation’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria | Photo Credit: AP Iran has started up new cascades of advanced centrifuges and plans to install others in the coming weeks after facing criticism over its nuclear programme, the United Nations’ atomic watchdog said Friday. The U.S. called…
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A plastic bag carrying various objects including what appeared to be trash that crossed inter-Korean border with a balloon believed to have been sent by North Korea, is pictured in Seoul, in this picture provided and released by the Defense Ministry, June 2, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters North Korea said on June 2 it…
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Current vaccines should still have some benefit against new variants: Dr Aaron Glatt (Representational) New York: The so-called FLiRT variants of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that cause COVID-19 have been the dominant forms of the virus circulating this year globally, according to the World Health Organization The moniker FLiRT is an acronym for the locations of the…
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Combination picture of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (left to right). Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet on May 26 in Seoul for their first trilateral talks since 2019 | Photo Credit: AP Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will…
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Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store speaks during a news conference in Oslo, Norway, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Norway said it would recognise a Palestinian state and Ireland was expected to do the same. | Photo Credit: AP Norway, Ireland and Spain said Wednesday they are recognising a Palestinian state in a historic move that…
File picture of U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller | Photo Credit: AP The United States on Monday said it had been unable, due largely to logistical reasons, to accept an Iranian request for assistance following the helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi, as Washington offered its condolences. The rare request from Iran, which…