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CHICAGO : Opening arguments will begin in Chicago on Wednesday in the first civil trial against US aviation giant Boeing over the 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX aircraft, which killed 157 people, after a full day...

JERUSALEM : Israel confirmed Wednesday that the remains handed over by Hamas the day before belonged to Israeli-American soldier Itay Chen, who was seized by Palestinian militants during the October 2023 attacks that sparked the Gaza war, reports BSS. The...

NEW YORK : New Yorkers elected young leftist Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor Tuesday and Democrats won two key state governor races as US voters delivered an early warning to President Donald Trump ahead of 2026's midterms. The clean...

GENEVA : The United Nations said Tuesday it had distributed food parcels to one million people in Gaza since the ceasefire, but warned it was still in a race to save lives. The UN's World Food Programme stressed all crossing...

SEOUL : North Korea has sent about 5,000 construction troops to Russia since September to help with "infrastructure reconstruction", a South Korean lawmaker said Tuesday after a briefing by Seoul's spy agency. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been...

KABUL : The United Nations suspended operations at a key border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran on Tuesday, a UN official told AFP, citing new Taliban government restrictions on Afghan women workers. "The UN and humanitarian partners have today suspended...

Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom will once again host the Global Atomic Quiz to mark World Science Day,  a press release said. This year’s quiz promises to be even more inclusive and accessible to participants worldwide. The event will...

ISTANBUL : An inflatable boat carrying migrants capsized in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish resort of Bodrum killing seven people, Turkish media reported Friday, reports BSS. Two people survived, according to the DHA news agency, which said one of...

BANGKOK : More than 1,000 people, mostly Chinese, have fled from Myanmar into Thailand this week, Thai authorities said on Friday, after the Myanmar military raided one of the country’s largest scam centres, reports UNB. Sprawling cyberscam hubs, where fraudsters...

KYIV : A Russian overnight barrage on Ukraine killed six people in and around the capital Kyiv and triggered power cuts across the country, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday. The attack comes a day after efforts to settle the nearly four-year...