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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…

Macao, July 20 (UNI) China’s Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) declared an “immediate prevention stage” Sunday morning due to the approach of Typhoon Wipha. The Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau hoisted the tropical cyclone Signal No. 8, the third-highest level, and a yellow storm surge warning was in effect. Classes of secondary, primary, infant, and…

Doha, July 20 (UNI) One of the princes of the Saudi Arabian ruling family, Al-Waleed bin Khalid Al-Saud, died on Saturday after spending almost 20 years in a coma following a car accident, the royal office said today. The member of the royal family, who spent such a long time in a coma, was called…

Moscow, July 19 (UNI) Russian industry has reportedly showed the highest growth among the top ten global economies: with its contribution to the total GDP increasing by 6%, and reaching $668 billion, as per Sputnik’s data analysis of the new World Bank report. China holds the first position in the ranking, where the sector’s contribution…

Washington, July 19 (UNI) Doubling down on his 10% tariff threat against all BRICS countries, US President Donald Trump in press briefing yesterday claimed that he ‘hit’ the intra-governmental organisation ‘very hard’, adding that he will never allow another any the group’s attempts at de-dollarisation, calling USD ‘the king.’ Mocking the multi-nation bloc’s attempts at…

Phon Penh, July 19 (UNI) A Cambodian Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) expert team found a US-made MK-82 aerial bomb in the central Kampong Chhnang province dating back to the Vietnam war, a mine clearance chief said today. Heng Ratana, director general of the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC), said the bomb, weighing more than 230…

Doha, July 19 (UNI) Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, also known as the Houthis, has claimed that it has carried out another hypersonic missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. “We have carried out an advanced military operation against Lod Airport [Ben Gurion] in the occupied Jaffa region using the ‘Palestine-2’ hypersonic ballistic missile,” Houthi…

Moscow, July 19 (UNI) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Syria’s transitional president Ahmed al-Sharaa have agreed on a ceasefire, US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy for Syria, Thomas Barrack, said. “Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa supported by the [US Secretary of State Marco] Rubio have agreed to a ceasefire…