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The Pentagon on Friday released a first batch of previously secret files documenting reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) β some as far back as the 1940s β a move sought for de...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) insisted on Friday that there is a minimal risk from the hantavirus to the general public, as countries prepared to repatriate passengers stuck on a cruise ship hit...
Three hikers, including two foreigners, died and 10 were missing after Mount Dukono on Indonesiaβs eastern Halmahera island erupted on Friday, spewing an ash cloud about 10 kilometres into the air, ...
Bangladeshβs deadliest measles outbreak in decades is stretching its health system, with children filling hospital wards and doctors struggling to contain a surge in infections that have killed more...
Donald Trump is poised to be the first US president visiting China in almost a decade, but an uneasy trade truce and tensions over Iran and Taiwan loom over his trip next week.
All eyes will be on Tru...
As evening falls in Fiji's capital, a steady stream of people approaches a makeshift clinic that is a first line of defence against one of the world's fastest-growing HIV epidemics.
In the South PacοΏ½...
Doctors Without Borders on Thursday accused Israel of having deliberately restricted food and aid in Gaza, creating a βmanufactured malnutrition crisisβ with particularly devastating impacts on in...
Gunmen on motorbikes in Indiaβs West Bengal ambushed and killed a political aide from the ruling Hindu-nationalist party days after it swept state elections, police said Thursday.
Prime Minister Nar...
β’ Israeli rights group calls decision βunlawful and unreasonableββ’ UN, Brazil, Spain demand swift release of the two activists
BEERSHEVA: An Israeli court on Wednesday rejected an appeal conte...
Ted Turner, the flamboyant US entrepreneur who transformed television news with the creation of CNN in 1980, died at the age of 87, the network said on Wednesday.
The moustached southerner, yachting e...
