Iran's late supreme leader laid to rest in Mashhad
Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was laid to rest on Friday in the holy shrine of Imam Reza in the northeastern city of Mashhad, the official news agency IRNA reported.Khamenei's eldest son Mostafa Khamenei led and performed the ritual prayers over the bodies before the late leader and his
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OpenAI unveils long-awaited 'super app' as rivalry with Anthropic intensifies
OpenAI showcased a new AI agent on Thursday meant to help white-collar workers access the power of coding tools without the sticker shock.The agent, called ChatGPT Work, combines OpenAI's popular chatbot with its AI coding tool, Codex, to create documents, presentations and websites, the company
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Strengthening El Nino likely to 'rank among largest' on record: US agency
The El Nino weather pattern picked up strength over the past month and is highly likely to "rank among the largest" ever recorded when it peaks between October and December, US forecasters said Thursday.
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Premier of DPRK cabinet arrives in Beijing for official visit
Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), also member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and vice president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, arrives in Beijing, capital of China
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Iran's late supreme leader laid to rest in Mashhad
Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was laid to rest Friday in the holy shrine of Imam Reza in the northeastern city of Mashhad, the official news agency IRNA reported.Khamenei's eldest son Mostafa Khamenei led and performed the ritual prayers over the bodies before the late leader and his
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People attend funeral procession of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
People attend the funeral procession of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Mashhad, Iran, July 9, 2026.
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Premier of DPRK Cabinet arrives in Beijing for official visit
Premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Pak Thae Song, also a member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and vice president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, along with a party and government
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Pakistani Chairman Senate lauds CPC's governance model
Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan and Acting President Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday praised the Communist Party of China (CPC) for steering China's remarkable economic transformation through strong institutions, long-term planning and effective governance.
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Nagasaki urges Japanese govt. to uphold non-nuclear principles
The prefectural assembly of Nagasaki on Thursday urged the Japanese government in a written opinion to adhere to the country's non-nuclear principles, Kyodo News reported.The move comes amid calls within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to revise the country's long-standing Three
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Researchers detect powerful magnetic field on distant exoplanet
An international team of researchers has found strong evidence of a powerful magnetic field around a distant exoplanet, Israel's Tel Aviv University said Thursday in a statement.The study, published in the journal Science, provides the strongest evidence yet that an exoplanet's magnetic field can
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Opinion: Trump's NATO shift cannot mask alliance's deepening fault lines
Just hours after publicly berating European allies and questioning the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO's) cohesion at the alliance's summit in Ankara, U.S. President Donald Trump closed the meeting on Wednesday by praising NATO's "tremendous unity" and calling the summit a success.The
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Super Typhoon Bavi nears China: Why it's unusually large
Eastern China is bracing for Super Typhoon Bavi as destructive winds and heavy rain are forecast to smash into a broad area when the storm approaches the country's southeastern coast later this week.As of 5 a.m. on July 8, Bavi was centered about 1,650 kilometers southeast of northeastern Taiwan
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Mexico to file criminal complaints in US over ICE-related deaths of Mexicans
The Mexican government plans to file criminal complaints with U.S. prosecutors and the Department of Justice over Mexican nationals' deaths related to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service, Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco said Thursday.At a press conference presided by Mexican
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Netanyahu, Trump talk over phone, agree to maintain coordination 'on various fronts'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, during which the two agreed to continue coordination between their countries "on various fronts," Netanyahu's office said in a statement.During the call, Trump briefed Netanyahu on U.S. actions
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