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23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Africa accounts for 40pc of global conflicts: ICRC
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Any new attack would be ‘another failure’: Iran
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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No reduction in Gaza hunger since truce: WHO
23 October 2025, 17:44 PM
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China, US to hold trade talks in Malaysia in coming days
23 October 2025, 07:34 AM
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India poised to sharply cut Russian oil purchases after sanctions, sources say
23 October 2025, 06:50 AM
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Trump threatens $9 bn in Harvard funding over 'anti-Semitism'
Trump has aggressively targeted prestigious universities that saw bitter protests sparked by Israel's attack on Gaza
1 April 2025, 02:52 AM
China, Japan, South Korea will jointly respond to US tariffs
Japan and South Korea are seeking to import semiconductor raw materials from China
1 April 2025, 02:44 AM
World economies brace for Trump tariffs ahead of deadline
World economies were jittery today ahead of US President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" when he is set to unleash tariffs against multiple countries, risking global turmoil to redress what he says are unfair trade imbalances
31 March 2025, 15:33 PM
Pick up arms to resist Trump’s Gaza relocation plan: Hamas
Hamas calls on 'anyone who can bear arms' worldwide to fight Trump's Gaza plan
31 March 2025, 12:52 PM
One in 10 struggling financially in Switzerland: officials
Eight percent of people in Switzerland, one of the richest countries in the world, were living below the official poverty line in 2023, the Federal statistics Office (BFS) said on Monday. ..One in 10 struggled to make ends meet...Poverty mainly affected single people, on
31 March 2025, 12:40 PM
Kremlin says Putin 'remains open' to speaking to Trump
Trump earlier criticised both Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, as he pushes to end more than three years of conflict in Ukraine
31 March 2025, 10:56 AM
France's Le Pen convicted in fake jobs trial
Her chances of standing in the 2027 election hangs in the balance
31 March 2025, 09:48 AM
Iran's Khamenei warns of 'strong' response if US attacks
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Monday of a forceful retaliation in case the Islamic republic is attacked by the United States
31 March 2025, 06:28 AM
Israel PM picks ex-navy commander as new security chief: govt
It remains unclear how and when Sharvit will formally assume leadership of the agency.
31 March 2025, 06:03 AM
Amid earthquake crisis, Myanmar military still bombs towns
An armed resistance movement against Myanmar's military-run government criticised the junta on Sunday for conducting airstrikes on villages even as the country reels from an earthquake that has killed around 1,700 people..The Karen National Union, one of Myanmar's oldest ethnic armies, sai
30 March 2025, 17:30 PM
Trump threatens secondary tariffs on Russian oil if unable to make deal on Ukraine
US President Donald Trump has said he will impose secondary tariffs of 25-50 percent on all Russian oil if he feels Moscow is blocking his efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
30 March 2025, 16:02 PM
Earthquake of magnitude 7 strikes Tonga islands
A magnitude 7 earthquake has struck Tonga, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
30 March 2025, 15:46 PM
Trump says ‘there will be bombing’ if Iran does not make nuclear deal
US President Donald Trump has threatened Iran with bombings and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program.
30 March 2025, 15:17 PM
6 dead after clashes in J&K
Four police officers and two suspected rebels have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir during a drawn-out firefight that also left several police wounded, security forces said.
29 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Why was the Myanmar earthquake so deadly? Scientists explain
Myanmar's ruling junta said on Saturday morning that the number killed had passed 1,000, with more than 2,000 injured.
29 March 2025, 07:45 AM
Peace in Ukraine? The issues on the table
While Ukraine has agreed to a plan from Washington for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia, Moscow has rejected it and has raised the stakes, mindful that President Donald Trump is impatient to get his "deal".
29 March 2025, 06:42 AM
Israeli military admits to shooting at ambulances
The incident took place last Sunday in the Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood in the southern city of Rafah, close to the Egyptian border.
29 March 2025, 05:03 AM
US vaccine chief jumps ship citing RFK 'lies': media
Kennedy is a noted vaccine sceptic, while Marks has worked at the FDA since 2012 and was part of the US effort to roll out inoculations during the Covid-19 pandemic.
29 March 2025, 05:00 AM
Partial solar eclipse to cross swathe of Northern Hemisphere
The partial eclipse, which is the first of the year and the 17th this century, will last around four hours from 0850 GMT to 1243 GMT.
29 March 2025, 04:53 AM
US judge halts deportation of Turkish student at Tufts
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken into custody by US immigration authorities near her Massachusetts home on Tuesday
29 March 2025, 04:21 AM