Australian gov't to crack down on student visa exploitation
Canberra [Australia], October 2: The Australian government has announced a crackdown on international student visa scams.
Schools in Libya's Derna reopen after deadly floods
Tripoli [Libya], October 2: Schools were reopened Sunday in the eastern city of Derna, which was hit by deadly floods a few weeks ago that...
Indonesian president declares operation of Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway
Jakarta [Indonesia], October 2: Indonesian President Joko Widodo declared the official operation of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) at Halim Station in Jakarta Monday morning.
Iraq investigators blame fatal wedding fire on ignored safety rules
Cairo [Egypt], October 2: Investigators in Iraq say a fire that killed more than a hundred people at a wedding party earlier this week was...
Top EU diplomat is counting on continued US aid to Ukraine
Kyiv [Ukraine], October 2: EU foreign policy chief JosepBorrell is counting on the United States to continue security assistance to Ukraine, despite aid for the...
Coalition talks loom after win for former Slovak PM Fico
Bratislava [Slovakia], October 2: Slovakia's former prime minister Robert Fico and his left-wing nationalist party have won the country's parliamentary elections, in a victory that...
Pro-China president-elect vows to unite Maldives
Male [Maldives], October 2: The president-elect of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, secured the release of his jailed mentor on Sunday, a day after divisive polls...
UN mission visits Karabakh, first in 30 years
Lachin[Azerbaijan], October 2: A United Nations mission visited Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijan said, after almost the entire ethnic-Armenian population fled since Baku recaptured the breakaway...
Erdogan defiant after PKK attack
Ankara [Turkey], October 2: Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan said Sunday that "terrorists" will never achieve their aims, hours after a blast near the parliament in...
McCarthy vows to survive ouster threat for avoiding shutdown
Washington [US], October 2: Top U.S. House Republican Kevin McCarthy said he expected to survive a threat to his speakership after a hardline critic within...
Swiss trial acquits man who admitted abducting Belarus politicians
Geneva [Switzerland], October 2: YuryGaravsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent members of the country's opposition....
Spain: Nightclub fire kills 13 in Murcia
Murcia[Spain], October 2: At least 13 people have died in a fire that engulfed three nightclubs in the south-eastern Spanish city of Murcia.
Mourners hail dead Russian mercenary Prigozhin as hero of the people
Moscow [Russia], October 2: At memorials to Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in an unexplained plane crash exactly 40 days ago, dozens of mourners hailed...
Nigeria's President Tinubu increases wages as national strike looms
Abuja [Nigeria], October 2: Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has announced a six-month increase to the minimum wage as workers are set to start an indefinite...
Attackers set off bomb at Turkish government building, both die
Ankara [Turkey], October 2: Two attackers detonated a bomb in front of Turkish government buildings in Ankara this morning, leaving both of them dead and...
House of Wisdom and King Faisal Centre sign MoU to organise exhibition...
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], October 2: The House of Wisdom (HoW) in Sharjah signed a cooperation agreement with the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic...
Scottish companies set to showcase world-leading energy transition innovations at ADIPEC in...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], October 2: Twenty-four innovative Scottish companies will showcase Scotland's outstanding strengths in delivering energy transition at this week's ADIPEC event in Abu...
ADIPEC Awards 2023: Recognising changemakers transforming energy industry
Abu Dhabi [UAE], October 2: A coveted recognition for the energy industry, the ADIPEC Awards is an important part of ADIPEC, which takes place in...
UAE President holds phone call with Turkish President
Abu Dhabi [UAE], October 2: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan held a telephone call with Turkish President RecepTayyipErdoğan today to...
Iran sends oil tankers abroad under U.S. eyes: deputy minister
Tehran [Iran],October 1: Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Morteza Shahmirzaei said on Saturday Iran sends its oil tankers to other countries right before the U.S. warships'...
Japan forbids stealth advertising with new regulation
Tokyo [Japan], October 1: The Japanese government started to forbid stealth marketing, a practice in which companies promote their products or services while concealing the...
Tens of thousands attend climate justice protest in Switzerland
Geneva [Switzerland], October 1: In the Swiss city of Bern, tens of thousands of people took to the streets on Saturday to demand immediate action...
French government avoids 18th vote of no confidence: Parliament
Paris [France], October 1: The lower house of the French parliament said on Saturday it had dismissed a no-confidence motion put forward against the government...
Putin vows to rebuild occupied Ukraine as part of Russia
Moscow [Russia], October 1: On the first anniversary of Russia's annexation of the four Ukrainian regions of Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk and Luhansk, Russian President Vladimir...
Kosovo demands Serbia withdraw troops from border
Pristina [Kosovo], October 1: Kosovo on Saturday demanded that Serbia withdraw its troops from their common border, saying it was ready to protect its territorial...
Climate change means New York City's flooding is 'new normal
New York [US], October 1: Torrential downpours that caused flash flooding in New York City on Friday reflect a "new normal" due to the effects...
Death toll from Pakistan blast rises to 59 as minister blames India
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 1: The death toll from a large blast at a mosque in Pakistan rose to 59 on Saturday.