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Canberra, Feb. 26 (UNI) Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged over 2 billion U.S. dollars to fund transport projects in the country’s second-most populous state in a major pre-election commitment. Albanese on Wednesday announced over 3.3 billion Australian dollars (2.08 billion dollars) for road and rail projects in the state of Victoria. Of the…

Kabul, Feb. 26 (UNI) At least 36 people have died and 40 others were injured in rain-related incidents throughout Afghanistan, Mullah Janan Saeq, the spokesman for the national disaster authority, said Wednesday. More than 300 residential houses have been either completely or partially destroyed due to the disaster, the official said, noting that the flash…

Washington, Feb 26 (UNI) US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he does not mind if Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelenskyy comes to Washington to see him. “I hear that he’s coming on Friday, certainly it’s okay with me if he’d like to,” Trump said. Earlier on Tuesday, Fox News reported that Zelenskyy is scheduled…

Tegucigalpa, Feb 26 (UNI) A helicopter carrying Honduran President Xiomara Castro made an emergency landing Tuesday in a mountainous area in the northwestern part of the country. The aircraft was en route from San Pedro Sula to the capital, Tegucigalpa, when it was forced to land in the mountainous area of Santa Cruz de Yojoa,…

Beirut, Feb 26 (UNI) A series of powerful explosions has been heard in Damascus amid Israeli planes spotted in Syria’s south, the Al-Watan newspaper reported on Wednesday. The explosions sounded in the suburbs of the Syrian capital at the same time as Israeli aircraft passed over the Daraa province, the newspaper added. Later in the…

Khartoum, Feb 26 (UNI) A Sudanese military plane crashed on Tuesday in Omdurman, north of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, killing its crew and several army officers. The Antonov aircraft, which had taken off from Wadi Seidna Airbase about 22 km north of Khartoum, went down shortly after departure, said the Sudanese military in a statement….

Jakarta, Feb 26 (UNI) A 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia’s North Sulawesi Province earlier Wednesday without prompting large waves, the country’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency reported. The tremor occurred at 5:55 a.m. local time Wednesday, the agency said. The epicenter was located 45 km southeast of East Bolaang Mongondow. Regency with a depth of 10…

Kyiv, Feb 26 (UNI) UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that he plans to meet with representatives of several countries to discuss common security issues. “I am hosting a number of countries at the weekend for us to continue to discuss how we go forward together as allies in light of the situation that we…

Kyiv, Feb 25 (UNI) French President Emmanuel Macron believes that a ceasefire in the Ukrainian conflict could be reached within a few weeks. “I hope so,” Macron said in an interview with Fox News when asked whether it would be possible to settle the Ukraine conflict in a few weeks, as US President Donald Trump…

Moscow, Feb 25 (UNI) Russia and the United States could think about returning to the project of hydroelectric power plant and aluminum production in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. “The most important thing, in my opinion, is that we could think about cooperation with American companies in this direction. Now,…