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Washington, July 23 (UNI) US President Donald Trump has announced a long-awaited trade agreement with Japan, a framework between allies and major trading partners that appeared elusive just weeks ago. “We just completed a massive Deal with Japan, perhaps the largest Deal ever made,” Trump said on Truth Social last night. As part of the…

Washington DC, July 22 (UNI) In a new development on “press pool” front, the White House has said it will remove the Wall Street Journal from one of the coveted press seats on President Trump’s upcoming trip to Scotland. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt made this announcement yesterday, saying that the change was made “due to…

London, July 22 (UNI) The Buckingham Palace has planned a major exhibition of the changing fashion of the late Queen Elizabeth next year. There will be about 200 items, including dresses and jewellery, hats and shoes, in what is claimed as the biggest ever display of the late Queen’s clothing. The exhibition, featuring items from…

Washington DC, July 22 (UNI) US President Donald Trump’s administration has released a collection of records on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, including FBI surveillance files on the civil rights leader. A court-imposed order had kept the FBI documents, totalling 230,000 pages, blocked from public view since 1977. Many members of King’s family…

Tokyo, July 21 (UNI) The coalition led by Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is certain to lose its majority in the House of Councillors following Sunday’s election, public broadcaster NHK reported. NHK said that the coalition of the LDP and Komeito is set to fall short of the 125 seats needed for a majority…

Ankara, July 21 (UNI) Four people were killed and 33 others injured when a passenger bus crashed into a mountainside in the Imranli district of Türkiye’s central Sivas province on Sunday, semi-official Anadolu Agency reported. The passenger bus, traveling from the eastern Agri province to the western Izmir province, crashed into a mountainside near Kuzkoy…

Moscow, July 21 (UNI) A series of powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Sunday, with the strongest reaching magnitude 7.6, according to the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The region has since experienced nearly 30 aftershocks, ranging in magnitude from 4.0 to…

Moscow, July 21 (UNI): Taliban morality police have arrested dozens of young women in Kabul for alleged violations of the Islamic dress code, the Afghanistan International news outlet reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The arrests reportedly took place in the Qala-e-Fathullah and Kote Sangi neighborhoods of Kabul on Friday and Saturday….

Vladivostok, July 21 (UNI) Fourteen people were killed and seven others injured when a shift bus plunged off a cliff in Russia’s Republic of Sakha early Monday morning, local authorities said. The accident occurred at around 3:20 a.m. local time (1820 GMT Sunday) on a road operated by Denisovsky Mining and Processing Plant, according to…

Jerusalem/Beirut, July 20 (UNI) The Israel Defence Forces said it killed Ahmad Muhammad Salah, head of Hezbollah’s Yohmor outpost in southern Lebanon, in an airstrike on Saturday. Salah was involved in efforts to reestablish Hezbollah’s military infrastructure sites in the area of Yohmor, it said in a statement. The Public Health Emergency Operations Center of…