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China Warns Against Space Arms Race After US Weapons Disclosure

China is responding to U.S. official confirmation for the first time that it launched weapons into orbit, urging against using outer space as a battlefield. Guo Jiakun, spokesman for China's...
Asia

Former Malaysian Minister Charged Over RM860 Million Tabung Haji Funds

The former minister for religious affairs of Malaysia Jamil Khir Baharom has pleaded not guilty to three counts of charges relating to RM860.3milion being...
Middle East

Israeli Settlement Expansion Surges Across Occupied West Bank

Israeli settlement building in the occupied West Bank is at a peak, with hundreds of thousands of people settled in an expanding network of...
Asia

Search Underway for Indonesian Passenger Ship Lost at Sea

Rescuers in Indonesia began a search on Sunday for a passenger vessel, Virgo Transport 8, that is missing in the country's Java Sea. The ship...
Asia

Iran and UAE Back Joint BRICS Call for Restraint

At the summit in New Delhi, the enlarged grouping was bedeviled with one of its most significant challenges in diplomatic negotiations, but Iran and...
Europe

Trump Says He Would Love to See a United Ireland

US President Donald Trump has expressed his desire for Ireland to be re-united with Northern Ireland during his trip to Dublin on Saturday. During a...
Middle East

Kuwait Condemns Netanyahu’s Mount Hermon Visit in Syria

On Thursday, Kuwait denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Mount Hermon in Syria, which it said crossed into the country's "territorial borders...
Europe

Swedish Election Could Reshape Policy on Israel and Palestine

A general election Sunday in Sweden has the potential to turn the country's approach to Israel and Palestine upside down as the Sweden Democrats...
Asia

Indonesia Wildfire Emissions Surge to World’s Highest

Wildfires are a growing problem in Indonesia, as carbon dioxide emissions from fires have become the world's largest of all countries, as forests and...