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ROME : US President Donald Trump said Friday that Russia and Ukraine were "very close" to a ceasefire deal, and urged the two sides to meet and finalize it. "A good day in talks and meetings with Russia and Ukraine....

JERUSALEM : The Israeli military announced that a soldier was killed on Saturday in the fighting in Gaza, the first fatality since a ceasefire with Hamas collapsed in mid-March. The military said Sergeant Major Ghaleb Sliman Al-Nasasra, 35, fell during...

DHAKA : Bangladesh and China today renewed their pledges to open up new avenues of cooperation connecting Yunnan Province and Chittagong in various sectors. The discussion was taken place when visiting Governor of Chinese Yunnan Province Wang Yubo met with...

UNITED NATIONS, United States, April 18, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - More than one million children in Haiti are suffering "critical" food shortages as a result of chronic violence, displacement and restricted access to humanitarian aid, the UN children's agency said...

PARIS :  France hailed talks on the Ukraine war between top US and European officials on Thursday during which US Secretary of State Marco Rubio again pressed a US peace plan. President Emmanuel Macron's office said the talks launched a...

DUBAI : At least 35 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip in the past day, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera TV channel reported. According to the broadcaster, an Israeli attack on a tent camp in the al-Mawasi...

HONG KONG : Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday as some stability returned to markets after last week's rollercoaster ride, with auto firms boosted by Donald Trump's possible compromise over steep tariffs on the sector. However, the US president's unorthodox approach...

WASHINGTON : The United States opened the door on Monday to tariffs targeting high-end technology and pharmaceuticals, feeding the uncertainty gripping the global economy in a trade war that Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned can have "no winner." After weeks...

NEW YORK : Elite US university Harvard was hit with a $2.2 billion freeze in federal funding Monday after rejecting a list of sweeping demands that the White House said was intended to crack down on campus anti-Semitism. The call...

GAZA CITY : Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli airstrike destroyed parts of a hospital early Sunday after Israel seized a corridor in the war-battered Palestinian territory and said it planned to expand its military offensive. There were no...