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SYDNEY : Australia’s public broadcaster was ordered Wednesday to pay a hefty penalty to a radio journalist dismissed over a social media post related to the Israel-Gaza conflict, reports BSS. Journalist Antoinette Lattouf took legal action after being fired in...

Emirates Flight Catering (EKFC) has launched its inaugural Culinary Arts Apprenticeship Programme in partnership with the Dubai College of Tourism (DCT). Designed to provide foundational culinary skills through practical training and industry exposure, the programme has inducted its first...

HONG KONG : Hong Kong shut schools and cancelled flights on Tuesday as Super Typhoon Ragasa was set to slam into the financial centre with a force that officials warned would be among the most destructive in the city’s...

NEW YORK : Technology veterans, politicians and Nobel Prize winners called on nations around the world Monday to quickly establish “red lines” too dangerous for artificial intelligence to cross, reports BSS. More than 200 prominent figures including 10 Nobel laureates...

MONTREAL : Biodiversity in Canada has plunged 10 percent over the last half century, with hundreds of species facing extinction, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said in a report Monday, reports BSS. “On average, every species group included - birds,...

PARIS : A majority of European countries now recognise the State of Palestine, following official declarations in New York on Monday by France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta and others, after nearly two years of war in Gaza, a press release...

DILI : East Timor is slated to become the 11th member of the ASEAN regional bloc in October, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Tuesday during a visit to the Southeast Asian nation, a press release said. The accession will...

UNITED NATIONS : Donald Trump makes his big comeback to the UN General Assembly podium on Tuesday, where the US president intends to denounce “globalist institutions” and meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as patience with Russia wears thin,...

GLENDALE : US President Donald Trump and top officials in his administration will lead tributes to Charlie Kirk on Sunday at a stadium gathering in Arizona, after the influential conservative activist was gunned down last week, reports BSS. Kirk, 31,...

MANILA : Thousands of Filipinos gathered Sunday in Manila to express their anger over a ballooning scandal involving bogus flood-control projects believed to have cost taxpayers billions of dollars, reports BSS. Rage over the so-called ghost infrastructure projects has been...