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22 October 2025, 02:41 AM
Sarkozy begins 5-yr prison sentence
21 October 2025, 18:00 PM
France's ex-leader Sarkozy jailed, proclaiming his innocence
21 October 2025, 17:44 PM
EU seeks ways to step up checks on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’
20 October 2025, 18:21 PM
Amazon’s outage disrupts internet services
20 October 2025, 18:19 PM
Italian coastguard rescues dozens of migrants, 2 dead
20 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Louvre denies tapping Israeli firm in theft probe
20 October 2025, 15:44 PM
Louvre’s prized jewels stolen in daring heist
19 October 2025, 18:17 PM
Ex-French President Sarkozy says 'not afraid' ahead of jail term
19 October 2025, 14:15 PM
Protest hits Rome over Libya migrant deal after boat wreck
19 October 2025, 02:45 AM
Natural gas drives record CO2 emissions in 2019
Global carbon emissions boosted by soaring natural gas use are set to hit record levels in 2019 despite a decline in coal consumption and a string of countries declaring a climate emergency, researchers said yesterday .
4 December 2019, 18:00 PM
China outclasses West
Teenagers from four big Chinese regions outshone their contemporaries in Western nations in a keenly watched survey of education capabilities published yesterday, which also showed no improvement trend in developed countries over the past two decades.
3 December 2019, 18:00 PM
Milan Kundera regains Czech citizenship
Novelist Milan Kundera has regained Czech citizenship which he had lost after leaving Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia for France in the 1970s, Czech media said yesterday.
3 December 2019, 18:00 PM
Iran unrest killed ‘at least 208’: Amnesty
At least 208 people are believed to have been killed during a crackdown on protests in Iran last month that followed a fuel price hike, Amnesty International said yesterday.
2 December 2019, 18:00 PM
London attacker named, was convicted of terrorism offences
British police names the man who stabbed two people to death in London on Friday in what the authorities called a terrorist attack as 28-year-old Usman Khan, who had been convicted of terrorism offences and was released from prison last year.
30 November 2019, 04:37 AM
Assange ‘could die’ in UK jail
More than 60 doctors wrote an open letter published yesterday saying they feared Julian Assange’s health was so bad that the WikiLeaks founder could die inside a top-security British jail.
25 November 2019, 18:00 PM
France slams US’s ME inaction
French Defence Minister Florence Parly yesterday took aim at “gradual US disengagement” in the Middle East and said its failure to respond to provocations blamed on Iran set off a dangerous chain of events.
23 November 2019, 18:00 PM
25 migrants rescued from UK-bound truck
A ferry crew found 25 migrants in a refrigerated container on a boat sailing from the Netherlands to Britain on Tuesday, emergency services said.
20 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Three more killed in Bolivia protests
Three protesters were killed and 30 wounded in clashes Tuesday with Bolivian security forces lifting an opposition blockade of fuel supplies to La Paz, the public ombudsman’s office reported.
20 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Terrorism spreads even as deaths fall
The number of global deaths from terrorism fell 15.2 percent in 2018, even as the number of countries affected by extremist violence continued to grow, the 2019 Global Terrorism Index showed.
20 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Johnson, Corbyn spar over Brexit in debate
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn traded blows Tuesday over Brexit and the health system as they vied for votes during the first ever head-to-head TV debate.
20 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Hitler birth house in Austria to become police station
The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station, Austria’s interior ministry announced Tuesday, after years of legal wrangling as the government looks to prevent the building from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
20 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Kamal seeks more Turkish investment in Bangladesh
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has sought more Turkish investment in Bangladesh’s various sectors as he attended the first day of the Bangladesh-Turkey Joint Economic Commission meeting in Ankara, an official release says.
20 November 2019, 04:50 AM
Hitler birth house in Austria to become police station
The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station, Austria's interior ministry announces, after years of legal wrangling as the government looks to prevent the building from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
20 November 2019, 04:47 AM
EU 2020 budget talks drag on because of disagreement
Talks setting the EU's budget for next year are going down to the wire because of disagreement between member states and the European Parliament, officials say.
16 November 2019, 13:46 PM
Bushfire threat still high as Australia begins clean up
Australians yesterday began sifting through the ashes of hundreds of bushfires that have ravaged the country, relieved that their worst fears were unrealised -- but wary of a long and brutal summer ahead.
13 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Trump helping climate fight!
Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg said Tuesday that US President Donald Trump’s climate change denialism was “so extreme” that it had helped galvanize the movement to halt long term planetary warming.
13 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Macron: Global system in ‘unprecedented crisis’
French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday said that the global political system was in “unprecedented crisis”, urging new kinds of alliances and cooperation to solve the world’s problems.
12 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Morales leaves for Mexico amid unrest
Bolivia’s Evo Morales was en route to exile in Mexico yesterday, leaving behind a country in turmoil after his abrupt resignation as president.
12 November 2019, 18:00 PM
UN chief seeks int’l accord on jihadists
UN chief Antonio Guterres yesterday called for an international accord on the fate of foreign jihadists being held in the Middle East, saying it was not up to Syria and Iraq “to solve the problem for everyone.
12 November 2019, 18:00 PM