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Dhaka, Oct 26 (EFE).– Three specialist doctors that have been flown in from abroad are treating Bangladesh’s ailing former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia, who faces a ban on foreign travel from the government, her party said on Thursday. The doctors arrived in Dhaka this week and have...
Kinshasa, Oct 26 (EFE).- The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has partially suspended its emergency aid distribution to hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) due to renewed clashes between pro-regime militias and a rebel group. “WFP has been forced to suspend its...
Sydney, Australia, Oct 26 (EFE).- The Australian government has returned to China three historical objects that were smuggled out of the Asian country in a fresh attempt to normalize bilateral relations between Canberra and Beijing. A polychrome sculpture of a rider playing a wind instrument on horseback. EFE-EPA/Australian Department of...
Islamabad, Oct 26 (EFE).- Pakistan’s government on Thursday announced that the deadline for the illegal residents to leave the country will not be extended. Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti said at a press conference in Islamabad that those who stayed beyond the ultimatum will be returned to their respective countries...
Gaza, Oct 26 (EFE).- The United Nations’ humanitarian efforts continued in Gaza, especially in shelters for displaced people, despite a rapid depletion of fuel and increased bombings, which on Wednesday resulted in a record 756 deaths. In its daily report on the situation in Gaza, the UN Office for the...
Jerusalem, Oct 26 (EFE).- The Israeli army conducted a brief tank raid in the northern Gaza Strip in preparation of the next stage of combat against the Islamist group Hamas, the military said Thursday. The development comes a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in the Gaza...
Koh Samui, Thailand, Oct 26 (EFE).- A court on the Thai island of Koh Samui on Thursday postponed the hearing of murder-accused Spaniard Daniel Sancho until next month. Spanish chef Daniel Jeronimo Sancho Bronchalo (C) is escorted by Thai police officers to court from a police station on Koh Phangan,...
Sports Desk, Oct 26 (EFE).- Erling Haaland ended his five-game Champions League goal drought with a match-winning double to give Manchester City a 3-1 victory over Swiss club Young Boys on Wednesday. Paris Saint Germain’s Kylian Mbappe celebrates after scoring a goal during the UEFA Champions League Group F match...
Sydney, Australia, Oct 26 (EFE).- Seven members of an alleged Chinese organized crime syndicate were charged and set to appear in a Melbourne court Thursday, accused of involvement in laundering some AU$229 million ($144 million) since 2020, Australian police said. An undated handout photo from Australian Federal Police (AFP) shows...
Beijing, Oct 26 (EFE).- China’s Shenzhou-17 spacecraft lifted off aboard a Long March 2F rocket on Thursday carrying three astronauts to the Chinese Tiangong space station. A Shenzhou-17 manned spaceflight mission astronauts commander Tang Hongbo (R), Tang Shengjie (C), and Jiang Xinlin (L) wave during the see-off ceremony before the...
Sydney, Australia, Oct 26 (EFE).- At least two people have died in Australia’s Queenland state as firefighters continued on Thursday to battle bushfires. In the rural town of Tara, about 300 kilometers west of the city of Brisbane and one of the most affected by the fires, a man died...
Washington, Oct 25 (EFE).- The United Auto Workers (UAW) union on Wednesday night said it had reached a «historic» tentative labor agreement with Ford following simultaneous strikes against the company as well as General Motors and Stellantis since mid-September. “We knew we were getting close, but we also knew the...
