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Iran 'strongly rejects' Israeli allegations regarding last week's mysterious explosion on MV Helios Ray in Gulf of Oman.

While European plants benefitted from the US shutdown of refineries, now they have no clients to export fuel oil to.

Sri Lanka hires former Australia international as cricket director in a move to revamp the struggling national team.

Record low mortgage rates, improving economy, gov't incentives and a limited supply of homes are driving prices up.

Two more charges filed against Aung San Suu Kyi as police clamp down on protesters rallying in Yangon.

Nomadland director Chloe Zhao, who was also named best director, is the first female director to win best drama.

Small, magnetic bombs that have wreaked havoc in Afghanistan seized during raids in recent months in disputed region.

Bond markets stabilise after central banks across the world assured of economic policy support.

Zalmay Khalilzad's mission comes a year after US and Taliban signed an accord aimed at ending Washington's longest war.

Indian PM urges every eligible person to get vaccine in an effort to rid the country of the new coronavirus.

The 20-metre lizard, discovered in Argentina in 2014, roamed what is now Patagonia some 140 million years ago.

Charges relate to primaries, which were designed to pick best candidates for legislative polls, which were then delayed.

China's security law a key reason that Hong Kong people are leaving the territory to start their lives anew elsewhere.

Israel targets Iran-backed strongholds in second attack in less than a month on outskirts of Syrian capital.

Former US president speaks at conservative conference dominated by his supporters amid Republican Party in-fighting.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman says time not right for talks given 'recent actions' of the US, European countries.

Security forces open fire, use tear gas and make mass arrests as they seek to disperse anti-coup demonstrators.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing calls to resign after two former aides accused him of sexual harassment.

Interior Minister Samir Mobeideen and Justice Minister Bassam Talhouni resign after violating COVID restrictions.

IOM says 95 people, including two children, rescued after rubber boat capsizes in central Mediterranean route.

Emergency services say 16 injured as police use tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets on pro-democracy protesters.

Rohingya refugees have been caught up in a diplomatic dispute about who should take them in.

Prime Minister Andrej Babis says hard-hit country cannot wait for EU approval for Russia's Sputink V shot.

Lawyer says rules barring Semenya from competing because of high natural testosterone violate human rights.

Families anxiously wait for news after gunmen kidnap 317 schoolgirls in Zamfara, latest in string of mass abductions.

Opinion polls ahead of Sunday's vote show strong support for President Nayib Bukele's Nuevas Ideas party.

Yaya Dillo tells reporters five of his family members were killed when security forces raided his home in N’Djamena.

Opposition and civil society leaders say President Jovenel Moise's term is over. He and his supporters say otherwise.

Human rights groups say the Chinese are committing horrific crimes against Uighurs.

Turkey says the PKK presence in Iraq is a national security threat and it is Baghdad’s responsibility to take action.

How non-profits working to unveil 'problems' with policies that increase diversity obstruct racial equity in the US.

Police in Kazakhstan detained protesters calling for the release of political prisoners in line with an EU resolution.

American officials say the vessel sustained two holes on its port side and two on its starboard side.

Multi-dimensional platform documents Gaza's historical buildings and heritage sites in English and Arabic.

Thousands of roosters die each year in the battles despite efforts by animal rights groups.

Forty-seven pro-democracy activists charged with 'conspiracy to commit subversion' in major crackdown on dissent.

Iran will receive several million more doses of foreign vaccines while advancing work on promising local candidates.

Ten years into Syria's devastating war, the country’s peace prospects have never been gloomier.

What happens when your child is diagnosed with a disease so rare that few doctors understand it?

Dozens of fighters from both sides killed in 'unabated' fighting since Friday in Yemen's strategic province of Marib.

A draft bill, nearly a decade in the making, could help empower women in Iran - if can clear the final legal hurdles.

The accusations of anti-Semitism against David Miller aim to silence pro-Palestinian voices on university campuses.

Security forces have stepped up violence against anti-coup demonstrators in Yangon and other cities in Myanmar.

Jacinda Ardern announces seven-day lockdown in Auckland after authorities detect a community case of unknown origin.

Police open fire on protesters in Yangon and Dawei, killing at least two and wounding dozens more, local media say.

Saudi-led coalition blames Yemen's Houthis as state TV broadcasts footage of explosions in the air over Riyadh.

Single-dose vaccine is the third authorised in the US and is 85 percent protective against severe illness.

Civil society groups raise concerns Sunday's vote could speed up deterioration of El Salvador's democratic institutions.

Amid internal Republican divide, Conservative Political Action Conference attendees heap praise on former president.

People in occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza face health crisis and economic uncertainty amid long wait for vaccines.