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Emirates and West Africa’s largest airline Air Peace have activated a bilateral interline agreement to expand connectivity between Africa, the UAE, and London. The partnership enables seamless single-ticket travel with through-checked baggage on select routes, a press release said. Beyond...

WASHINGTON : A life-threatening winter storm brought hazardous conditions to a wide swath of the United States on Sunday, from Texas to New England, prompting warnings to stay off roads, along with mass flight cancellations and power outages. As the...

WASHINGTON : US President Donald Trump on Saturday warned Canada that if it concludes a trade deal with China, he will impose a 100 percent tariff on all goods coming over the border. Relations between the United States and its...

MINNEAPOLIS : Federal immigration agents shot dead a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, officials said -- the second fatal shooting of a civilian in the city, sparking fresh protests and outrage from state officials. The death came less than three...

LONDON : UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Friday denounced as "insulting" President Donald Trump's claim that troops from NATO allies avoided the front line in Afghanistan, as anger grows at the US president's remarks. In an interview with Fox News...

DAVOS : US President Donald Trump headed home from Davos on Thursday after unveiling his new Board of Peace and once again casting himself as a global peacemaker, despite widespread scepticism over a plan that aims to rewrite the...

MOSCOW : Top US negotiators including Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow late Thursday for talks on a US-drafted plan to end the Ukraine war, just as Kyiv announced it had agreed on post-war security guarantees...

KARACHI : The death toll from a mall fire in Pakistan's biggest city rose to at least 55 people, a Karachi government official told AFP on Thursday. "A total of 55 bodies have been recovered since Saturday night" when the...

Emirates will introduce four additional weekly flights between Dubai and Manila from 2 April, further strengthening its operations in the Philippines and expanding connectivity across its global network, a press release said. The new services will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays,...

MADRID : The collision between two high-speed trains on Sunday evening in Andalusia in southern Spain has claimed at least 39 lives, according to a new toll confirmed Monday to AFP by the Spanish interior ministry. The previous toll reported...