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First look at Wildlife Photographer of the Year entries – from black ...

First look at Wildlife Photographer of the Year entries – from black bear taking a dip to bullfrog's near miss **A Glimpse into Nature’s Majesty: Wildlife Photographer of the Year Shortlist Revealed** The prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has unveiled a... read more »

It Should Be Harder to Apply for a Job. ...

It Should Be Harder to Apply for a Job. No, Really

It Should Be Harder to Apply for a Job. No, Really **The Paradox of the Effortless Application: A Shifting Job Market Landscape** In an era where technology has streamlined numerous aspects of daily life, the job application process has, for many, become remarkably frictionless. The advent of... read more »

Spain requests emergency funding from th...

Spain requests emergency funding from the EU over Ceuta migrants

Spain requests emergency funding from the EU over Ceuta migrants **Spain Seeks EU Financial Aid Amidst Unprecedented Migrant Influx in Ceuta** **Brussels, Belgium** – Spain has formally requested emergency financial assistance from the European Union to manage the escalating humanitarian... read more »

Fatah, Dahlan bloc hold reconciliation t...

Fatah, Dahlan bloc hold reconciliation talks ahead of Palestinian elections

Fatah, Dahlan bloc hold reconciliation talks ahead of Palestinian elections ## Palestinian Political Factions Engage in Crucial Reconciliation Dialogue Amidst Election Uncertainty **ALAMEIN, EGYPT** – Senior representatives from Fatah, the dominant Palestinian political movement, and the... read more »

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Islamic State video shows beheading of British hostage Alan Henni...

LONDON: British taxi driver Alan Henning, who skipped Christmas with his family to raise funds to purchase ambulances and medical equipment and join an aid convoy to Syria, has been beheaded by... read more »

Bomb at bus station in northwest Pakistan kills 5

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A powerful bomb exploded Saturday at a bus station in northwest Pakistan, killing five people and wounding three others,... read more »

Pakistan condemns US drone attack in Waziristan

Islamabad: Pakistan on Sunday condemned the latest US drone attack in the tribal region of Waziristan which left two people killed earlier in the day. The... read more »

Pakistan needs to concentrate on internal issues instea...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Saturday that Pakistan should stop making Kashmir a parachute of politics and instead concentrate... read more »

4 schoolchildren killed in China knife attack

BEIJING: Four primary schoolchildren were killed in a knife attack by a man in south China’s Guangxi autonomous region, the latest such incident in the... read more »

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Syrian rebel group demands hostage swap for abducted nuns - paper

Syrian rebel group demands hostage swap for abducted nuns –...

BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Syrian rebel group calling itself “Free Qalamoun” has claimed the kidnapping of 12 nuns and said it wants to trade them for a thousand female detainees held by... read more »

UN chief condemns terror attacks in Yemen

UN chief condemns terror attacks in Yemen

United Nations – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Thursday strongly condemned the terrorist attacks against Yemen’s defence ministry... read more »

Syrian chemical weapons removal programme on track: off...

Syrian chemical weapons disposal plan to be released next week: UN

United Nations – The head of the joint United Nation! s and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons team charged with eliminating chemical... read more »

Arafat’s widow challenges French scientists’ over ̵...

Arafat’s widow challenges French scientists’ over 'natural death' conclusion

Washington – Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s widow has challenged the findings of French scientists that the reason of her husband’s death... read more »

Iraqi Kurdistan seals Turkey deal

Iraqi Kurdistan seals Turkey deal

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq has finalized a deal under which it will pump oil to Turkey. “The formalities were recently completed…... read more »

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50 percent of Pakistanis support government: Survey

Islamabad – Fifty percent of Pakistan’s population supports the present government, with 49 percent favouring the opposition, a survey has found. An opinion poll conducted Aug 1-26 by the... read more »

Tajikistan's Imomali Rakhmon re-elected president

Tajikistan’s Imomali Rakhmon re-elected pres...

Tajikistan’s President Imomali Rakhmon has won a new seven-year term in Wednesday’s election, receiving 83.1 percent of the vote after... read more »

Maldives president hopes for credible poll

Maldives president hopes for credible poll

Male – Maldives President Mohamed Waheed Wednesday expressed the hope for a credible and successful presidential election later this week. He said this... read more »

Graft case filed against former Pak PM Ashraf

Graft case filed against former Pak PM Ashraf

Pakistan’s anti-graft watchdog on Wednesday filed a case against former premier Raja Pervez Ashraf over a Rs 22-billion scam in setting up power... read more »

Court orders Musharraf’s release

Court orders Musharraf's release

Islamabad – A Pakistan court Wednesday ordered the release of ex-president Pervez Musharraf from house arrest, two days after he was granted bail in... read more »

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Swedish police identify 17-year-old girl as victim in school sword attack

Swedish police identify 17-year-old girl as victim in school sword attack ## Tragedy Strikes Swedish School as Teenager Identified in Fatal Sword Attack **GÖTEBORG, SWEDEN** – A profound... read more »

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Israel, Turkiye and the new regional reordering ### Shifting Sands: Israel’s Syrian Standoff Amidst Evolving Regional Dynamics The complex geopolitical landscape of Syria has once... read more »

Carney: Canada will enact retaliatory US tariffs starting September 8

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Ebola outbreak battle ramps up with first batch of 70,000 vaccine...

Ebola outbreak battle ramps up with first batch of 70,000 vaccines ## Urgent Response Underway as Rare Ebola Strain Emerges in Democratic Republic of Congo **Kinshasa, DRC** – Health authorities in... read more »