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SANAA : A court operating under Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saturday sentenced 17 people to death for spying on behalf of Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia, rebel media said. The Houthis' Saba news agency said the court in...

JOHANNESBURG : Security officials from Britain, France and Germany will meet US and Ukrainian counterparts in Geneva Sunday to discuss President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Ukraine, sources at a G20 summit said. "The adviser to the...

WASHINGTON : The State Department insisted Saturday that the 28-point plan for ending the Ukraine conflict was not a "wish list" drafted by the Kremlin, denying accusations made by a group of US senators. The lawmakers said earlier Saturday that...

MOGADISHU : Children run in turquoise water, hawkers tout wares on white sands, and families laugh as tourists disembark from small boats -- but it's not some tropical island, it's Somalia's capital Mogadishu. "I didn't really tell my family where...

KYIV : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that 22 people were still missing in the western city of Ternopil, a day after a Russian strike there killed at least 26 people, including three children. In one of the deadliest...

JAKARTA : Hundreds of Indonesians stayed in temporary shelters Thursday after a volcano on the main island of Java erupted, damaging houses and a school, with around 190 people evacuated from its slopes, authorities said. Mount Semeru in eastern Java...

Emirates has been voted ‘Best Airline in the World’ for the 8th consecutive year, at the ULTRAs travel awards held in Dubai. Based on votes from Ultratravel’s global network of 1.2 million travellers, Emirates also scooped the ‘Airline with...

SEOUL : A South Korean ferry carrying 267 people ran aground on an uninhabited island off the country's southwest coast on Wednesday, authorities said. The passenger vessel was travelling from Jeju island to the port city of Mokpo when it...

VIENNA : The head of the UN nuclear agency on Wednesday renewed his call for Iran to allow inspections at key nuclear sites attacked by Israel and the United States in June. Tensions between Iran and the International Atomic Energy...

MADRID : Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday said Spain would investigate Facebook owner Meta for allegedly violating millions of users' privacy, summoning the US tech giant to answer before parliament. An investigation by Spanish, Belgian and Dutch experts found...