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AFP/APP Beijing: China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, will visit New York this week to hold a United Nations Security Council meeting on the Israel-Hamas conflict, Beijing's foreign ministry said on Monday. "As it holds the rotating presidency…

Xinhua/APP Beijing: Vaccination remains the most effective preventive measure for senior citizens, especially those with underlying health conditions, a health expert said on Monday. Li Yanming, head of the respiratory and critical care…

Xinhua/APP Beijing: China will advance the building of its capacity for archaeological scientific research with a string of efforts, including establishing national and regional facilities by 2025, according to the country's archaeology…

AFP/APP Paris: Growing calls for the world to come to grips with the many ways that global warming affects human health have prompted the first day dedicated to the issue at the crunch UN climate talks starting next week. Extreme heat,…

News Desk Vienna: At least four passengers were killed after a small plane flying from the Czech Republic to Croatia crashed in the Austrian state of Upper Austria on Saturday afternoon, local police sources said on Sunday. The…

Xinhua Beijing: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan on Sunday, according to the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be…

Ishtiaq Ahmed London: The 6th Annual “British Beacon Mosque Awards” were held in Oldham, Lancashire. It is an initiative of the British-based Muslim organisation ‘Faith Associates’. The brochure that accompanied the awards event states,…

AFP/APP Dubai: An Israeli-owned cargo ship was damaged in a suspected drone attack by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the Indian Ocean, a US defense official said on Saturday. "We are aware of reports that there was a…

Ishtiaq Ahmed London: We are into the second day of the temporary four-day pause in the war between Israel and Palestine in Gaza. Qatar mediated the temporary pause. Part of this fragile truce deal is for Hamas to release 50 held Israeli…

AFP/APP Gaza: A four-day truce in the Israel-Hamas war began on Friday, with hostages set to be released in exchange for prisoners in the first major reprieve during seven weeks of a war that has claimed thousands of lives. The two…