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16 Mar 2025 | 9:00 AMGaza/Jerusalem, Mar 16 (UNI) Nine people were killed and several others injured on Saturday by Israeli drone attacks in northern Gaza, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
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16 Mar 2025 | 9:46 AMWashington, Mar 16 (UNI) Hundreds of staffers at Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and other outlets received a weekend email that they will be barred from their offices and should surrender press passes and equipment, local media reported Saturday.
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16 Mar 2025 | 9:38 AMTehran, Mar 16 (UNI) Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and his Dutch counterpart Caspar Veldkamp on Saturday held a phone conversation to discuss bilateral ties and developments in West Asia.
see more..16 Mar 2025 | 9:26 AMCairo, Mar 16 (UNI) The Hamas movement has stipulated that the release of an Israeli prisoner with U.S. citizenship and the delivery of the bodies of four other hostages is contingent upon the opening of the Rafah Crossing, the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip and an extension of the ceasefire for approximately two months.
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16 Mar 2025 | 9:13 AMSeoul, Mar 16 (UNI) North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui met with a delegation from the Russian Foreign Ministry on March 15, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reports.
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16 Mar 2025 | 8:52 AMWashington, Mar 16 (UNI) The United States has sent destroyer USS Gravely to the country's southern border to help combat illegal migrants, the US Northern Command said.
see more..16 Mar 2025 | 8:38 AMMoscow, Mar 16 (UNI) Russian engineering units have started demining operations in reclaimed border areas of the Kursk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday.
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16 Mar 2025 | 8:36 AMIslamabad, Mar 16 (UNI) Nine terrorists were killed when Pakistani security forces conducted two separate operations in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said in a statement on Saturday.
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16 Mar 2025 | 8:27 AMDoha, Mar 16 (UNI) US fighter jets struck a power plant in the city of Dhahyan in the Saada province in northern Yemen, which led to a power outage in the city and its suburbs, Yemeni TV channel Al-Masirah reported.
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16 Mar 2025 | 8:20 AMSanaa, Mar 16 (UNI) At least nine people were killed and nine others wounded in the U.S. airstrikes on Houthi sites in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Saturday night, said the Houthi-run Health Ministry.
see more..16 Mar 2025 | 8:13 AMJakarta, Mar 16 (UNI) Indonesia will host the 19th high-level parliamentary meeting of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states in May, the state-run news agency Antara reported on Saturday, quoting lawmaker Mardani Ali Sera.
see more.. 16 Mar 2025 | 12:09 AMPeshawar, Mar 15 (UNI) Prominent Pakistani cleric Mufti Munir Shakir, a strong supporter of Pashtun Afghan nationalism, was killed due to injuries sustained in a grenade blast outside a mosque in the Urmar area of Peshawar on Saturday.
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15 Mar 2025 | 11:24 PMWashington, Mar 15 (UNI) The Trump administration has placed Bhutan on a draft ‘Red List’ of countries, along with 11 others, for a complete travel ban to the USA, while Pakistan has been placed in a group that will be considered for a partial suspension of visa issuance, according to a report.
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15 Mar 2025 | 4:28 PMDhaka, Mar 15 (UNI) Bangladesh has cancelled the diplomatic passport of the “immediate-past” envoy to Morocco, Mohammad Harun Al Rashid, for his Facebook post wherein he terms Mohammad Yunus as “a tyrant cloaked in deception” and describes the country’s descent into “radical extremism and savagery” under the Yunus-led Interim Government.
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15 Mar 2025 | 4:10 PMMoscow, Mar 15 (UNI) Ukraine has lost up to 465 soldiers and a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle in battles with Russia's Tsentr (Center) group of forces over the 24 hours, Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
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