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16 May 2025 | 12:34 PMMoscow, May 16 (UNI) Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Army General Oleg Salyukov as deputy secretary of the Security Council of Russia, said an official decree published by the Russian government on Thursday.
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16 May 2025 | 9:28 AMAbu Dhabi, May 16 (UNI) President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan held talks on Thursday with visiting U.S. President Donald Trump at the presidential palace in Abu Dhabi, reaffirming the commitment of both countries to deepening their strategic partnership, the UAE's state news agency WAM reported.
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16 May 2025 | 9:04 AMTripoli, May 16 (UNI) The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Thursday called on armed factions to immediately withdraw from the Libyan capital Tripoli and return to their barracks after two days of violent clashes left at least six people dead.
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16 May 2025 | 9:04 AMSanaa/Jerusalem, May 16 (UNI) Yemen's Houthi group said on Thursday night that it had launched a new ballistic missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel, which was reportedly intercepted by Israeli defence systems earlier in the night.
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16 May 2025 | 9:03 AMAbuja, May 16 (UNI) The death toll of the Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, has risen to 138 since the beginning of this year, public health authorities said Thursday.
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16 May 2025 | 8:21 AMJerusalem, May 16 (UNI) The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said in a statement that it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen toward Israel Thursday evening.
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15 May 2025 | 10:36 PMYaounde, May 15 (UNI) At least 35 people have been killed and six others injured in violent clashes in Chad, government spokesman Gassim Cherif Mahamat said on Thursday.
see more..15 May 2025 | 10:19 PMBeirut, May 15 (UNI) Israeli drones carried out multiple airstrikes across southern Lebanon on Thursday, killing a Hezbollah member and destroying several prefabricated structures, Lebanese security and official sources said.
see more.. 15 May 2025 | 8:45 PMWashington, May 15 (UNI) The US Department of the Treasury has sanctioned two senior officials of the Lebanese-based Shia movement Hezbollah, as well as two people allegedly facilitating the movement's financial operations, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said on Thursday.
see more.. 15 May 2025 | 8:38 PMDhaka, May 15 (UNI) Protesting the rise of increased gender discrimination in Bangladesh recently, a coalition of 49 progressive women’s workers', cultural, student, and professional organisations called for an end to violence and harassment against women.
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15 May 2025 | 7:00 PMThe Hague, May 15 (UNI) The decision whether or not to invite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the NATO summit in The Hague rests with the alliance's secretary-general, Mark Rutte, Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said on Thursday.
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15 May 2025 | 6:42 PMWashington, May 15 (UNI) The United States has approved a 225 million Dollar Foreign Military Sale to Turkiye for Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM).
see more..15 May 2025 | 6:28 PMColombo, May 15 (UNI) Civil society groups such as the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), together with its affiliates the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) and the Free Media Movement (FMM), has urged the new government to heed civil society calls to bring the country forward on critical reforms.
see more.. 15 May 2025 | 6:27 PMJerusalem, May 15 (UNI) Israeli forces killed five Palestinians during a raid in the West Bank town of Tammun on Thursday, the military said, describing the dead as militants involved in what it called "significant terrorist activity."
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its elite Duvdevan "undercover unit," operating alongside Border Police and under the direction of the Shin Bet security agency, launched coordinated raids in Tammun and the nearby city of Tubas.
see more.. 15 May 2025 | 6:11 PMKathmandu, May 15 (UNI) A climber from the Philippines has died when attempting to summit the world's tallest Mount Qomolangma from the Nepali side, Nepal's Department of Tourism said on Thursday.
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