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  • UN chief expresses concern over US foreign aid pause

    Date: 2025-01-28 11:16:55 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:24 - ID:11044787

    NEW YORK, Jan 28 (MENA) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres notes with concern the announcement of a pause in US foreign assistance, Spokesman for the UN Secretary General Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement published by the website of the ....

  • TV BRICS: Chinese scientists uncover plant's microbial discrimination mechanism

    Date: 2025-01-28 08:46:19 GMT - China - World - SN:16 - ID:11044682

    BEIJING, Jan 28 (MENA) - A recent discovery by a Chinese research team has unveiled the intricate mechanisms by which plants differentiate between beneficial symbiotic and harmful disease-causing microbes, TV BRICS reported on Tuesday . This ....

  • Tonga names crown prince as defense, foreign minister

    Date: 2025-01-28 08:16:24 GMT - Tonga - World - SN:13 - ID:11044656

    NUKUALOFA, Jan 28 (MENA) - Tonga's Crown Prince Tupouto'a 'Ulukalala has been named minister for defense and foreign affairs, after prime minister 'Aisake Eke was appointed by King Tupou VI, French news website "Zonebourse" reported. Prime ....

  • US, UK discuss conflict in ME, Russian-Ukraine war

    Date: 2025-01-28 07:41:38 GMT - USA - World - SN:11 - ID:11044583

    WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy on a range of pressing global issues, including the conflict in the Middle East and Russia’s war against Ukraine. In a press briefing on ....

  • 6 dead, 50 injured after platform collapses during religious event in India

    Date: 2025-01-28 07:17:31 GMT - India - World - SN:9 - ID:11044555

    NEW DELHI, Jan 28 (MENA) - Six people have died and more than 50 others were injured after a bamboo platform erected during a religious event in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat collapsed under the weight of the people, NDTV reported. According to Indian ....

  • Trump calls China's DeepSeek 'wake-up call' for US industries

    Date: 2025-01-28 07:14:22 GMT - USA - World - SN:8 - ID:11044546

    WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump praised Chinese AI startup DeepSeek on Monday at a House Republican retreat, lauding DeepSeek as "a positive development" due to the claimed low cost the company developed its AI model for ....

  • US Senate confirms Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary

    Date: 2025-01-28 07:07:04 GMT - USA - World - SN:7 - ID:11044538

    WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (MENA) - The US Senate confirmed Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary on Monday, elevating the hedge fund manager to the new administration’s top financial job as President Donald Trump forges ahead on an ambitious economic agenda, ....

  • Russian, Azerbaijani diplomats discuss air crash near Aktau

    Date: 2025-01-28 07:04:17 GMT - Russia - World - SN:6 - ID:11044535

    MOSCOW, Jan 28 (MENA) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin and Azerbaijani Ambassador to Moscow Rakhman Mustafayev discussed the air crash near Aktau and stressed that it is necessary to complete the official probe and announce its ....

  • Russian army loses another 1,380 troops in Ukraine over past day

    Date: 2025-01-28 07:00:58 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:5 - ID:11044530

    KIEV, Jan 28 (MENA) - The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to Tuesday, January 28, 2025 amount to nearly 833,000 troops, including another 1,380 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day. The General Staff ....

  • Belgium recalls amb. in Kinshasa following verdict against Belgian citizen

    Date: 2025-01-28 06:57:59 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:4 - ID:11044520

    BRUSSELS, Jan 28 (MENA) - Belgium recalled its ambassador in Kinshasa and summoned Congo envoy following verdict of Jean-Jacques Wondo, a Belgian-Congolese military expert. In a press release, the Belgian government said "Belgium has taken note ....

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