UN authorizes Haiti security mission to fight gangs
New York [US], October 3: The United Nations Security Council on Monday authorized a foreign security mission to Haiti, a year after the Caribbean country...
New Zealanders start voting in Oct. 14 general election
Auckland [New Zealand], October 3: New Zealanders on Monday started voting for a new government as advance in-person balloting opened ahead of the Oct. 14...
Australia PM rallies support for Indigenous referendum as early voting starts
Sydney [Australia], October 3: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he would focus on having one-on-one conversations with Australians to rally support for the Indigenous...
More than 100 Amazon dolphins found dead, heat and drought blamed
Washington [US], October 3: The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating on a tributary of the Amazon River since last week in...
Trump reaped over $1 billion in fraud
New York [US], October 3: Donald Trump attacked New York's attorney general and the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial.
UAE invites GCC Ministers of Health to attend COP 28
Dubai [UAE], October 3: Abdulrahman bin Mohamed Al Owais, Minister of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has once again invited GCC Health Ministers to attend the...
Dubai Culture and Expo School Programme enhance teachers' knowledge through LinkedIn e-learning
Dubai [UAE], October 3: In celebration of World Teachers' Day and in recognition of the role and efforts of the profession in shaping conscious and...
WHO, WADA sign MoU to collaborate on clean, drug-free sport
Geneva [Switzerland], October 3: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have signed a four-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) to allow...
Australian gov't to crack down on student visa exploitation
Canberra [Australia], October 2: The Australian government has announced a crackdown on international student visa scams.
Schools in Libya's Derna reopen after deadly floods
Tripoli [Libya], October 2: Schools were reopened Sunday in the eastern city of Derna, which was hit by deadly floods a few weeks ago that...
Indonesian president declares operation of Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway
Jakarta [Indonesia], October 2: Indonesian President Joko Widodo declared the official operation of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) at Halim Station in Jakarta Monday morning.
Iraq investigators blame fatal wedding fire on ignored safety rules
Cairo [Egypt], October 2: Investigators in Iraq say a fire that killed more than a hundred people at a wedding party earlier this week was...
Top EU diplomat is counting on continued US aid to Ukraine
Kyiv [Ukraine], October 2: EU foreign policy chief JosepBorrell is counting on the United States to continue security assistance to Ukraine, despite aid for the...
Coalition talks loom after win for former Slovak PM Fico
Bratislava [Slovakia], October 2: Slovakia's former prime minister Robert Fico and his left-wing nationalist party have won the country's parliamentary elections, in a victory that...
UN mission visits Karabakh, first in 30 years
Lachin[Azerbaijan], October 2: A United Nations mission visited Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijan said, after almost the entire ethnic-Armenian population fled since Baku recaptured the breakaway...
Erdogan defiant after PKK attack
Ankara [Turkey], October 2: Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan said Sunday that "terrorists" will never achieve their aims, hours after a blast near the parliament in...
McCarthy vows to survive ouster threat for avoiding shutdown
Washington [US], October 2: Top U.S. House Republican Kevin McCarthy said he expected to survive a threat to his speakership after a hardline critic within...
Swiss trial acquits man who admitted abducting Belarus politicians
Geneva [Switzerland], October 2: YuryGaravsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent members of the country's opposition....
Spain: Nightclub fire kills 13 in Murcia
Murcia[Spain], October 2: At least 13 people have died in a fire that engulfed three nightclubs in the south-eastern Spanish city of Murcia.
Mourners hail dead Russian mercenary Prigozhin as hero of the people
Moscow [Russia], October 2: At memorials to Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in an unexplained plane crash exactly 40 days ago, dozens of mourners hailed...
Ten Cuban migrants hiding in truck die in Mexico accident
Chiapas[Mexico], October 2: At least 10 Cuban migrants who were hiding in a cargo truck have died after the vehicle overturned on a highway in...
Nigeria's President Tinubu increases wages as national strike looms
Abuja [Nigeria], October 2: Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has announced a six-month increase to the minimum wage as workers are set to start an indefinite...
Attackers set off bomb at Turkish government building, both die
Ankara [Turkey], October 2: Two attackers detonated a bomb in front of Turkish government buildings in Ankara this morning, leaving both of them dead and...
House of Wisdom and King Faisal Centre sign MoU to organise exhibition...
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], October 2: The House of Wisdom (HoW) in Sharjah signed a cooperation agreement with the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic...
Scottish companies set to showcase world-leading energy transition innovations at ADIPEC in...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], October 2: Twenty-four innovative Scottish companies will showcase Scotland's outstanding strengths in delivering energy transition at this week's ADIPEC event in Abu...
ADIPEC Awards 2023: Recognising changemakers transforming energy industry
Abu Dhabi [UAE], October 2: A coveted recognition for the energy industry, the ADIPEC Awards is an important part of ADIPEC, which takes place in...
UAE President holds phone call with Turkish President
Abu Dhabi [UAE], October 2: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan held a telephone call with Turkish President RecepTayyipErdoğan today to...