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Amr Al Bidh, foreign affairs representative for the STC, accused Riyadh of having knowingly misled the international community by announcing a 'peaceful operation' that they never had any intention to keep peaceful.

Those convicted include former editor Shaheen Sehbai; two other journalists, Sabir Shakir and Moeed Pirzada; YouTubers Wajahat Saeed Khan and Haider Raza Mehdi; and retired army officers Adil Raja and Akbar Hussain.

Budanov, 39, has built up a legendary reputation in Ukraine, credited with a series of daring operations against Russia since it launched an all-out assault against its neighbour in 2022

The Education Ministry lodged a formal complaint with the police and launched an internal inquiry to establish how the blunder took place

Swiss investigators believe sparkling flares atop Champagne bottles ignited the fatal fire at a ski resort when they came too close to a crowded bars ceiling

Iran Supreme Leader adviser Larijani says Mr. Trump should know that U.S. interference in Iran protesting issue is equivalent to chaos across entire region

Details of flight schedules and operations will be finalised by next week, and Biman will operate its flights under Pakistan Civil Aviation rules, says Civil Aviation authority report

Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a 0.1% monthly rise to leave prices 1.2% higher than in December 2024.

Flights were halted on Thursday (January 1, 2025) at Yemens Aden international airport

In 2024, Turkey signed an energy exploration deal with Somalia

An official told reporters the governments view is it is too early to say she is a successor, given her age and she does not hold an official position

Chinas population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024 and experts have cautioned the downturn will continue

The interview was taped on New Year's Eve, the same day the U.S. military announced strikes against five alleged drug-smuggling boats

Relations between China and Japan are at their chilliest point in years after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested a hypothetical Chinese attack on Taiwan could trigger a military response from Tokyo

So severe were the burns suffered by the mostly young crowd of revellers in the Le Constellation bar that Swiss officials said it could take days before they name all the victims

Russia made the formal diplomatic request as Trump also seeks to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

This is the latest child death reported in Gaza as storms, cold weather and flooding worsen already brutal living conditions

Das, who runs a medicine shop and mobile banking business, was travelling in an autorickshaw when the attackers intercepted the vehicle and allegedly beat him up, hacked him with sharp weapons

The New Years Day release follows the governments announcement that it released 99 people on December 26, which would bring a total of 187 people released in two weeks

It was the latest deadly incident along one of the worlds most dangerous migrant routes frequented mostly by West Africans trying to reach Spain via the Canary Islands

Ukraine and Western countries have disputed Russias account of the alleged attempted strike

According to the Election Commission of Bangladesh, more than 1.2 million Bangladeshi citizens both living at home and abroad have registered already to cast votes through postal ballot system

Mamdani inherits a city on the upswing, after years of slow recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic

From fireworks and street parties to quiet prayers and moments of remembrance, countries across the globe rang in New Year 2026 in strikingly different ways.

Palestinian authorities in the West Bank said a 26-year-old man they named as Khattab Al Sarhan was killed and another person wounded

A surprise offensive by the STC, in which the separatists took control of resource-rich Hadramawt and Mahra provinces last month, has brought the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, officially allies in Yemen, to a point of unprecedented tension

A look at some of the worst fires in bars, nightclubs and music venues around the world

The military also said it hit the Almetevskaya oil preparation facility in Russias Tatarstan region

He extended heartfelt gratitude to the senior dignitaries of countries from the South Asian region, who attended the funeral personally

A police spokesman said the explosion took place at around 1:30 a.m. (0030 GMT) in a bar called Le Constellation

Bulgaria gave up the lev currency, which has been in use since the late 19th century, and Bulgarian euro coins were projected onto the central bank's building

Meanwhile, the air defence systems have intercepted and destroyed 168 Ukrainian UAVs over the regions during the New Year night

China announced it would impose additional 55% tariffs on some beef imports from countries including Brazil, Australia and the United States that exceed a certain quantity for the next three years

The comparative data for 2024 and 2025 reveals a sharp escalation in terrorism and counter-terrorism linked violence nationwide, marking an increase of 862 deaths, or a roughly 34% YoY surge in violence

Final figure yet to be confirmed; record of 45,774 arrivals was in 2022 under the last Conservative government

The protests, taking root in economic issues, have heard demonstrators chant against Iran's theocracy as well

At the beginning of 2025, we highlighted some important elections. What were the results? And what other regime changes were noteworthy?

A police spokesman said the explosion took place at around 1:30 a.m. (0030 GMT) in a bar called Le Constellation, which is popular with tourists, as revellers rang in the new year

Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in again, in grander style, in a public ceremony at City Hall at 1 p.m. by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, one of the mayors political heroes

In the face of China's rising expansionist ambitions, the international community is watching to see whether the Taiwanese people have the resolve to defend themselves, Lai Ching-te said

Shares of the company linked to U.S. President Donald Trump, which operates his social media platform Truth Social, were last up 5% in early trading

The International Federation of Journalists said that across the globe, 533 journalists were currently in prison a figure that has more than doubled over the past half-decade

President Emmanuel Macron has often pointed to social media as one of the factors to blame for violence among young people

The attacker detonated himself while being searched by the patrol after arousing suspicion

Zelenskyy said Ukrainians were exhausted from nearly four years of war longer than the German World War Two occupation of many Ukrainian cities

The action is part of the Trump administration's monthslong pressure campaign on Maduro

The President has made a crackdown on crime in citiesa centerpiece of his second term and has toyed with the idea ofinvoking the Insurrection Actto stop his opponents from using the courts to block his plans

The military said three people were killed when the first boat was struck, while people in the other two boats jumped overboard and distanced themselves from the vessels before they were attacked

The juntas strategy is to repeat what it accomplished in 2010 when it installed its generals as civilian rulers to run a government elected in a similarly restricted election