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Baghdad [Iraq], March 18: Four Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Friday in an operation in Iraq's western province of Anbar, the Iraqi military...

Beirut [Lebanon], March 18: Lebanese central bank governor RiadSalameh on Friday maintained his innocence by rejecting accusations of transferring public funds exceeding 300 million U.S....

Chicago [US], March 18: Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose on Friday as the U.S. dollar weakened.

New York [US], March 18: Oil prices fell on Friday, booking significant losses for the week, as banking turmoil rattled markets.

Tokyo [Japan], March 18: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday vowed to increase childcare leave benefits in a bid to reverse the country's plummeting...

Washington [US], March 18: Eleven of the largest banks in the United States will deposit a total of $30 billion in First Republic Bank (FRB),...

Kyiv [Ukraine], March 18: On March 17, Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger said that the government of Slovakia had approved the decision to send MiG-29...

Paris [France], March 18: The French government faces fierce protests after pushing for controversial pension reforms without a vote in the lower house.

Hanoi [Vietnam], March 18: The head of Vietnam's permanent representative mission to the United Nations expressed Vietnam's concerns and called on all parties to stop...

Washington [US], March 18: Mr. Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, filed a lawsuit against a computer repairman for distributing images on his...

Chișinău [Maldova], March 18: Moldova's parliament on Thursday approved a law on referring to the national language as Romanian in all legislative texts and the...

Mexico City [Mexico], March 18: Mexico has filed an appeal in a civil lawsuit against U.S.-based gun manufacturers, it said on Wednesday, looking to crack...

Kinshasa [DR Congo], March 18:Health officials in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus, the World Health Organization...

Jerusalem [Israel], March 18: The Israeli army announced that soldiers shot a Palestinian who approached them armed with a knife near the city of Ramallah...

Beijing [China], March 18: Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to Russia next week, Beijing and Moscow said on Friday.

Ramallah [Palestine], March 17: Zionist forces on Thursday killed four Palestinians including a teenager in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, the...

Washington [US], March 17: The United States on Thursday released a video it said shows an "unsafe" and "unprofessional" intercept by Russian military jets when...

Dubai [UAE], March 17: Iran's top security official on Thursday held high-level talks in the United Arab Emirates, days after a shock rapprochement between Tehran...

Washington [US], March 17: The vessel containing 400,000 barrels of crude oil suffered a hull leak while undergoing routine maintenance in the Gulf of Thailand,...

Washington [US], March 17: The US and Russia had high-level phone calls to discuss the US reconnaissance drone crash in the Black Sea while racing...

Pyongyang [North Korea], March 17: North Korea says it launched the Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), its largest, in a test that involved leader Kim...

Washington [US], March 17: When the chaos following the collapse of three US banks, Silvergate, Silicon Valley and Signature, had not yet subsided, another storm...

Pyongyang [North Korea], March 17: North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile as the United States and South Korea conducted their biggest joint military exercise...

Moscow [Russia], March 17: At least one person was killed and two were injured in a blast and fire at a building belonging to Russia's...

California [US], March 17: As heavy rains soaked into already sodden ground in California, mudslides in the beachfront community of San Clemente forced evacuations of...

Bogota [Colombia], March 17: Ten miners reported missing after an explosion caused by accumulated gas in coal mines in central Colombia have been found dead,...

Athens [Greece], March 17: Thousands of Greek workers walked off the job and rallied in central Athens in protest at neglected safety standards they say...