Yemen prisoner exchange talks end with focus on political detainees
Sanaa [Yemen], June 20: The latest round of talks between the Yemeni government and the Houthi movement to exchange prisoners has concluded, with an increasing...
North Korea calls botched spy satellite launch 'gravest failure' this year
Pyongyang [North Korea], June 20: Top North Korean officials have promised to try a second time to launch a military spy satellite, calling their country's...
Biden visits California to talk climate, raise cash
Los Angeles [US], June 20: President Joe Biden planed to unveil more than $600 million in federal spending to fight the effects of climate change...
Tension on the Ukrainian battlefield amid Kyiv's counter-offensive
Kyiv [Ukraine], June 20: Yesterday (June 19), TASS reported that Alexey Polishchuk, an official of the Russian Foreign Ministry, confirmed that Ukraine has deployed a...
Japan's cabinet approval rating declines
Tokyo [Japan], June 20: Support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet has dropped 12 percentage points to 33 percent, after peaking with the G7...
Mass attack at Chinese restaurants in New Zealand
Wellington [New Zealand], June 20: AP reported on June 20 that a young man with a hammer attacked diners at three Chinese cuisine restaurants in...
Flying cars flooded the Paris Air Show
Paris [France], June 20: Nikkei Asia newspaper reported on June 20 that many flying car models were brought to the Paris Air Show ...
Ukraine prepares 'biggest blow' as it claims recapture of eight villages from...
Kyiv [Ukraine], June 20: Ukraine said it had driven Russian forces out of an eighth village in its two-week-old counteroffensive and a defence official vowed...
UK parliament backs report that Boris Johnson lied over 'partygate'
London [UK], June 20: Britain's parliament delivered another blow to the political career of former prime minister Boris Johnson on Monday when it endorsed a...
Ships, planes search for sub that went missing on trip to Titanic...
Washington [US], June 20: U.S. and Canadian ships and planes searched for a submarine that went missing more than a day earlier off the coast...
Rome to open ancient square where Julius Caesar was killed
Rme [Italy], June 20: History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when...
US judge orders Trump lawyers not to release evidence in documents probe
Washington [US], June 20: A U.S. judge in Florida ordered defence lawyers for former President Donald Trump not to release evidence in the classified documents...
Voters back carbon cuts as glaciers melt
Geneva [Switzerland], June 20: Voters in Switzerland have backed a new climate bill designed to cut fossil fuel use and reach net-zero carbon emissions by...
Islamic banks' assets up to AED650 bn by end of March 2023:...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], June 20: Gross assets of the Sharia-compliant banks operating in the UAE grew to AED650 billion by the end of Q1-2023, an...
Kuwait forms new gov't
Kuwait City [Kuwait], June 19: A new Kuwaiti government led by Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah was formed on Sunday, the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)...
Twelve dead and others missing as cyclone hits southern Brazil
Brasilia [Brazil], June 19: At least 12 people have died, five are missing and nearly 3,000 have been left homeless after an "extratropical cyclone" hit...
Prince William: Young royals 'will definitely be exposed' to homelessness
London [UK], June 19: The Prince of Wales has said his children "will definitely be exposed" to homelessness as he prepares to launch a new...
Woman who knocked on coffin at her funeral dies after week in...
Quito [Ecuador], June 19: An Ecuadorean woman has died days after mourners at her funeral were shocked to find her alive in her coffin.
Taliban dismiss US watchdog report
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 19:The Taliban on Sunday rejected the latest report by a US watchdog claiming that foreign armed groups and domestic threats have increased...
Tunisia bars TV, radio reports of opposition
Tunis [Tunisia], June 19: Radio and TV programmes in Tunisia have been banned from reporting on the cases ofprominent opposition figures accused of conspiring against...
Mali's military rulers hold constitutional referendum
Bamako [Mali], June 19: Malians were voting on Sunday in a referendum on changing the constitution that the military rulers and regional powers have said...
Oman Embassy hosts 2nd GCC coordination meeting
Kuwait City [Kuwait], June 19: The Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman in Kuwait hosted at its headquarters on Sunday the second coordination meeting for...
Swiss vote on net-zero climate law
Geneva [Switzerland], June 19: The Swiss, feeling the impact of global warming on their rapidly melting glaciers, were voting on Sunday on a new climate...
South Africa's Ramaphosa tells Putin Ukraine 'war must be settled'
Moscow [Russia], June 19: South Africa's president, in Russia as part of a delegation pushing for peace between Kyiv and Moscow, told his Russian counterpart...
Iraq unveils 2,800-yr-old stone tablet
Baghdad [Iraq], June 19: Iraq unveiled on Sunday a 2,800-year-old stone tablet returned by Italy, as the war-ravaged country works to recover from abroad antiquities...
First plane leaves Sanaa for Saudi amid Amman talks
Sanaa [Yemen], June 19: The first commercial flight from Yemen's rebel-held capital to Saudi Arabia since 2016 took off carrying hajj pilgrims on Saturday, in...
Putin warns NATO over being drawn into Ukraine war
Moscow [Russia], June 19: Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned there is a "serious danger" of NATO being drawn further into the Ukraine war if...