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23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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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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Canada’s next PM Carney vows to ‘win’ US trade war
Canada’s incoming prime minister Mark Carney struck a defiant note as the former central banker vowed to win US President Donald Trump’s trade war, saying his country will “never” be part of the United States.
10 March 2025, 18:00 PM
US cancelling 83pc of USAID programmes: Marco Rubio
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday the United States was cancelling 83 percent of programmes at the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
10 March 2025, 18:00 PM
US President Donald Trump ‘unpredictable’
US President Donald Trump, who wants to take over Greenland, is very erratic, the island’s premier said yesterday, the eve of the self-governing Danish territory’s legislative elections.
10 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Iran says 'no justification' for attacks on Alawites and other minorities in Syria
Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said this during a weekly press briefing
10 March 2025, 08:07 AM
China-US trade war heats up as Beijing's tariffs take effect
After imposing a blanket 10 percent tariff on all Chinese goods in early February, Trump hiked the rate to 20 percent last week.
10 March 2025, 07:18 AM
Pak Taliban attack kills 4 paramilitary troops: police
At least four Pakistani paramilitary troops were killed when local Taliban fighters attacked a security checkpoint in a northwestern border region, a police official said yesterday.
9 March 2025, 18:00 PM
US Secret Service shoots armed man near White House
US Secret Service agents shot an armed man near the White House during the night, an agency spokesman said early yesterday, while President Donald Trump was spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
9 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Iran won’t negotiate under US ‘bullying’
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said later on Saturday that Iran will not be bullied into negotiations, a day after US President Donald Trump said he had sent a letter to the country’s top authority urging Tehran to negotiate a nuclear deal.
9 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Israel carries out strike on Hamas in northern Gaza
Israel carried out an air strike on Hamas members in northern Gaza yesterday, rattling an already fragile ceasefire as it prepared for fresh talks in Doha on the future of its truce with Hamas.
9 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Syria leader issues plea for national unity, peace
Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa yesterday called for peace and national unity after days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of the former government that have killed more than 1,000 people, most of them Alawite civilians.
9 March 2025, 18:00 PM
EU chief sees US as ‘allies’ despite ‘differences’
The EU still sees the United States as “allies” despite President Donald Trump’s verbal broadsides against the bloc, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said yesterday, while stressing the need for Europe to “step up” on defence.
9 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Syria president calls for unity after reports of mass killings
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor has reported that 745 Alawite civilians were killed in Latakia and Tartus provinces.
9 March 2025, 09:07 AM
Greenland's road to independence, explained
The roadmap is already laid out.
9 March 2025, 07:16 AM
US takes rivalry with China to the high seas
Beijing's expanding influence on the world's oceans is a challenge to Washington's efforts to protect its interests.
9 March 2025, 07:11 AM
Thousands of Australians without power as ex-tropical cyclone lashes Queensland
Some 316,540 people were without power in Queensland's southeast where the Gold Coast city was the worst-hit area with more than 112,000 without power due to the storm system
9 March 2025, 03:42 AM
Israel, Hamas signal readiness for next ceasefire talks as mediators push for progress
Hamas said there were "positive indicators" for the start of the ceasefire's second-phase talks but did not elaborate.
9 March 2025, 03:15 AM
She voted for Trump - He fired her
Piggott is among more than 125 people dismissed in February from the Treasury Department's Bureau of Fiscal Service in Parkersburg, West Virginia
9 March 2025, 03:10 AM
Myanmar junta chief says election to be held by January
Myanmar’s junta chief said the country would hold an election in December or January, the first in the war-torn nation since the military staged a coup in 2021.
8 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Myanmar junta chief says election to be held by January
The Myanmar military seized power in 2021, making unsubstantiated claims of massive electoral fraud in 2020 polls won resoundingly by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD).
8 March 2025, 09:54 AM
Freed Isaeli hostages urge Netanyahu to implement Gaza deal 'in full'
Their plea came as Hamas released a video showing Israeli hostage Matan Angrest alive, footage that his family said had left them "shaken".
8 March 2025, 09:50 AM