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Thailand approves first instant noodle price rise in 14 years

Bangkok, Thailand (AFP) Thailand will raise the price of Thai instant noodles, the trade department said Wednesday, marking the first…

Tigray rebels accuse Ethiopia forces of major offensive

NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) - Tigray rebels accused Ethiopian government forces and allied militias of launching a "large-scale offensive" against southern…

Court suspends Thai PM Prayut from office

BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) - Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday suspended Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha from office while it considers a…

Ukraine will fight ‘until the end’, Zelensky says on Independence Day

KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday vowed in an Independence Day address that his country would…

Burkina Faso builds first own drug manufacturing plant

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AFP) - Burkina Faso's Prime Minister Albert Ouedraogo Tuesday visited the country's first own pharmaceuticals manufacturing facility,…

All systems go for Artemis 1 mission to Moon

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) - Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the Artemis program is poised to take up…

Boiling heat and no water: taps run dry in southern Iraq

AL-AGHAWAT, Iraq (AFP) - Younes Ajil turns on the tap in his home but nothing comes out: dozens of villages…

Sweltering Saudis escape to mountainous ‘City of Fog’

  by Haitham EL-TABEI Agence France-Presse AL-NAMAS, Saudi Arabia (AFP) -- As Saudi Arabia swelters in sizzling desert temperatures, some…

Whistle blows in Germany for world’s first hydrogen train fleet

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) - Germany on Wednesday will inaugurate a railway line powered entirely by hydrogen, a "world first" and…

Russia, Ukraine spar at UN over nuclear plant dangers

UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) -- Russia and Ukraine traded accusations Tuesday over who was endangering the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant,…

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