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13-12-2022 ANTIGUA/ GUATEMALA: One of the most active volcanoes in Central America has erupted again, spewing lava and ash and forcing authorities in Guatemala to close a major road on Sunday. The volcano named Fuego, Spanish for fire, rumbled into activity overnight Saturday into Sunday, with molten rock oozing down …

13-12-2022 LIMA: An airport in Peru has been closed and two people have been killed in violent protests, authorities say. Pictures on social media showed smoke billowing from Andahuaylas airport in the south of the country. Fifty police officers and workers were surrounded by demonstrators at the airport, the transport …

13-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MELBOURNE/ QUEENSLAND: Two police officers and a member of the public have been shot dead at a remote property in Queensland, Australia as the PMI has been intimating that the days are nor for away when the world will count Australia as one …

12-12-2022 ROME: Three women including a friend of Italy’s new prime minister were killed when a man opened fire at a cafe in Rome, injuring four other people. Those inside were meeting as part of a local block’s residents’ committee. Roberto Gualtieri, mayor of Rome, described the shooting as a …

12-12-2022 TEHRAN: Iran has publicly executed a second man who was arrested during unrest linked with the country’s ongoing protests. The judiciary’s news website announced early on Monday that Majidreza Rahnavard, who was convicted of killing two members of security forces, was executed in an unidentified public location in Mashhad …

12-12-2022 DUBAI/ RIYADH/ JERUSALEM: In the two years since the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan signed the US-led normalization agreements with Israel, or Abraham Accords, the rapprochement has led to numerous collaborations on political, diplomatic and economic levels. However, when it comes to developing relations among the people …

12-12-2022 WASHINGTON/ BAMAKO: A Mauritanian man who received a death penalty in Mali for involvement in attacks that killed dozens including an American in 2015, was extradited to the United States to face an indictment related to the same crime, the US Justice Department said on Saturday. Fawaz Ould Ahmed, …

12-12-2022 KYIV: Ukrainians on Sunday marked one month since Russia’s troops withdrew from Kherson and its vicinity. The region had been occupied for eight months. Since then, residents have struggled to regain normalcy, dealing instead with the aftermath of the lengthy occupation, as shelling continues to batter the southern Ukrainian …

12-12-2022 TEHRAN: Iran called in China’s ambassador after Beijing issued a controversial joint statement with Arab states dealing, among other things, with three disputed islands. Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Iran’s rival Saudi Arabia on Friday, where he also sat down with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. …

12-12-2022 WASHINGTON: The US space agency NASA to bring home its Orion capsule. The spaceship, which has been on a three-week journey around the Moon, is targeting a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off California. Un-crewed for this test flight, the capsule is expected to carry astronauts on its next …