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News Desk Riyadh:  Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was discharged from hospital on Friday after undergoing what the Royal Court described as “reassuring” medical tests, easing concerns about the health of the veteran…

AFP/APP Paris, France: Protests in Iran have subsided after a crackdown that has killed thousands under an internet blackout, monitors said Friday, a week after the start of the largest demonstrations in years challenging the country's…

AFP/APP Cairo: The Palestinian committee set to govern post-war Gaza has begun its work in Cairo, a member told AFP on Friday. Formed on Wednesday as the second phase of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal came into effect, the…

News Desk  New York:  The United States on Thursday said it stands with the “brave people of Iran” and warned that President Donald Trump has kept “all options on the table” to stop what Washington described as a violent crackdown on…

Xinhua/APP Beijing: A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the US state of Oregon at 03:25 GMT on Friday, according to the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. The quake’s epicenter was located at 43.77 degrees…

News Desk Washington/Tehran: US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he had been informed the recent killings in Iran’s crackdown on protests were easing and indicated there was no current plan for large-scale executions. …

APP/Reuters London: The UK is preparing for a severe Arctic cold wave next week, with forecasters warning of heavy snowfall and plunging temperatures across large parts of the country. The Met Office has issued alerts that some areas…

AFP/APP Berlin: Germany’s defence ministry said on Thursday that a reconnaissance mission to Greenland by several European NATO members is intended to explore security options in response to what it described as growing Russian and…

AFP/APP Washington: Beneath the surface of forests, grasslands, and farms across the world, vast fungal webs form underground trading systems to exchange nutrients with plant roots, acting as critical climate regulators as they draw down…

News Desk  On Dec. 28, shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar did something that has historically rattled Iran’s rulers: they refused to open their doors. The strike was a protest against runaway inflation, the collapse of the national…