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Free alcohol licenses will be mostly welcomed by Dubai's 3.5 million residents, majority of whom are expatriates

Brazilian police deployed at a camp of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro in the capital on Monday

Meta’s Oversight Board overturned its decision to remove a Facebook post that used the slogan “death to Khamenei”

Gandhi plans to round off his march in northernmost Kashmir by January end

Zhao is now deputy head of the ministry’s Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs

"This supply will not be able to change anything", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a daily briefing

“As of January 6, 2023, the province’s Covid infection rate is 89.0pc”, says Kan Quancheng

IMD forecast says air, road and train traffic could be affected for two days

US West Coast under grip of torrential downpours, damaging winds for past 10 days

Officially, China has reported just 5,272 COVID-related deaths as of Jan.8

Fears of Trump-era clamp-downs loom as US President sets sight on re-election

Far-right leader orders police to remove flag from public spaces to prevent 'incitement'

Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro pushed through police barricades and stormed into the national Congress building

Dozens of Iranians gathered outside the French embassy in Tehran protesting against the Charlie Hebdo cartoons

Protesters brandished signs with slogans including "Together against fascism and apartheid"

The ship is the fifth boat carrying Rohingya refugees to land in Indonesia since November, according to authorities

Residents blamed the building of roads and tunnels for a nearby hydroelectric project

Turkey has made some demands that Sweden cannot accept, Sweden's prime minister said on Sunday

It was not clear whether the drone was on a surveillance mission or if it was carrying any explosives

Beijing ends almost three years of self-imposed isolation even as it battles a surge in Covid cases

Preliminary information indicated injuries in the shelling in Zuhres and Novyi Svit

Authorities claim 32-year-old 'suspected of preparing serious act of violence endangering the state'

Tokyo reports nearly 240,000 new cases with 463 deaths in past 24 hours

Analysts say infection peak possibly already reached while global health experts predict over a million deaths in 2023

Putin attended the service at the Cathedral of the Annunciation, originally designed as a church for the Russian tsars

This Lunar New Year public holiday will be the first since 2020 without domestic travel restrictions

Shankar Mishra was on the run after being accused of urinating on a fellow passenger aboard an Air India flight

Perpetrators of the crime were hanged this morning for killing a paramilitary force member, says official news agency

McCarthy's victory in the 15th ballot brought an end to the deepest congressional dysfunction in over 160 years

United States and Germany have also pledged to send Patriot missile systems to repel Russian missile and drone attacks

Authorities' crackdown following nationwide protests continued with arrests

19 suspected gang members and 10 military personnel were killed after the arrest of Mexican drug lord Ovidio Guzman

The Taliban slammed Prince Harry after the royal disclosed he killed 25 people on military duty in Afghanistan

Prince Harry says he viewed those he killed as ‘chess pieces’ to be taken off the board in forthcoming memoir Spare

Half of the Earth's glaciers are destined to disappear by the end of the century because of climate change

A video circulating on social media showed passengers crouching low below their seats as a child cried

The aviation industry has also been critical of the decisions to impose testing on travellers from China

Türkiye to continue taking 'effective steps' to counter terror financing, says Foreign Ministry

There would be no truce until Russia withdraws its invading forces from occupied land, says official

‘The majority of role eliminations are in our Amazon Stores and PXT organizations,’ says Andy Jassy

The closed-door meeting was requested by the United Arab Emirates and Japan for January 13

The 15-member council will convene at 3:00 pm at the UN headquarters in New York

Russian troops must hold fire for 36 hours from 1200 on January 6, the Kremlin says

“We have launched a process as Russia-Turkey-Syria,” Erdogan says

The meeting addressed developments in Syria and the wider Middle East

Karim Younis, 60, was convicted of kidnapping and killing Israeli soldier in 1983

Hong Kong followed China’s tough zero-COVID policy until the middle of 2022

“He (Prince William) grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor,” Harry writes

Stone graves destroyed, crosses toppled at cemetery on Mount Zion

China reports daily COVID deaths in single figures while hospitals are filled and funeral homes overwhelmed