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Caracas, Venezuela, Oct 24 (UNI) Venezuela has 5,000 Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles in “key air defense positions,” its President Nicolás Maduro claimed amid growing tension over the United States’ military deployment in the Caribbean. US President Donald Trump has said he is weighing military action inside Venezuela as part of a counter-drug trafficking campaign and a…

Tel Aviv, Oct 24 (UNI) US Vice President J D Vance has left Israel with an optimistic note, saying Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza strip, could be rebuilt in two to three years. Vance said Palestinians should be able to move into a “Hamas free zone” in southern Gaza “in the next couple…

San Francisco, Oct. 24 (UNI) U.S. Alaska Airlines grounded all its flights nationwide on Thursday evening due to an unspecified technology outage. “Alaska Airlines is experiencing an IT outage affecting operations. A temporary ground stop is in place,” the airline said in a post on X. The IT team is working to solve the error…

Tripoli, Oct. 24 (UNI) Three people were killed and several others injured in an explosion on Thursday evening at a car repair workshop in the Libyan city of Sabratha, the local emergency service said. The explosion, caused by a gas cylinder in the workshop, also resulted in the complete collapse of the workshop’s roof, the…

Yaounde, Oct. 23 (UNI) Cameroon’s Constitutional Council announced on Wednesday evening that the final results of the country’s presidential election will be proclaimed on Monday, 15 days after the poll. According to the council, results from all 31,653 polling stations will be read during a televised ceremony in the capital Yaounde before the winner is…

Washington, Oct. 23 (UNI) The U.S. military sank its eighth alleged drug-trafficking vessel in international waters, the first such strike in the Pacific, killing two people aboard, U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday. “Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated…

Sydney, Oct. 23 (UNI) A man has been hospitalised with serious injuries after being stabbed on a bus in Sydney’s inner-west suburbs in the early hours of Thursday morning. Police in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement that emergency services were called to reports of a stabbing in the…

Caracas, Oct. 23 (UNI) Two people were killed on Wednesday after their small plane crashed at Paramillo Airport in the western Venezuelan state of Tachira, according to the National Institute of Civil Aviation (INAC). “The corresponding protocols were immediately activated and the airport’s aviation firefighters took action to respond to the accident,” the INAC posted…

Washington, Oct 23 (UNI) The US has announced new sanctions targeting Russia’s two largest oil companies – Rosneft and Lukoil – in an effort to pressure Moscow to negotiate a peace deal in Ukraine. “Every time I speak to Vladimir, I have good conversations and then they don’t go anywhere. They just don’t go anywhere,”…

Moscow, Oct 22 (UNI) Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be attending the upcoming G-20 session in South Africa in November this year, announced Kremlin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, reports state media. The bloc – which comprises 20 of the world’s largest economic powers – makes up 85% of the world’s total GDP, 75% of international…