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23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Blast at central Russian plant kills 10: governor
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Methane threat grows as global action stalls: UN
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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Gaza hostage-prisoner swap set to go ahead after row over bodies
The group admitted "the possibility of an error or mix-up of bodies", which it attributed to Israeli bombing of the area.
22 February 2025, 03:04 AM
Man who stabbed novelist Salman Rushdie guilty of attempted murder
Hadi Matar will be sentenced on April 23, and faces up to 25 years in prison
22 February 2025, 03:01 AM
Bus Crash: 12 university students dead in Brazil
Twelve university students died and 21 were injured in a collision between a bus and a truck in Brazil’s southeastern state of Sao Paulo, officials said yesterday.
21 February 2025, 18:00 PM
42,000 people fled eastern DRC to Burundi in two weeks: UN
Around 42,000 people have fled the conflict raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and crossed into Burundi in the past two weeks, the United Nations said yesterday.
21 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump seeks to reshape Asia's energy supplies with US gas
When President Donald Trump sat down to lunch with his Japanese counterpart this month, talk turned quickly to how Tokyo could help realise a decades-old proposal to unlock gas in Alaska and ship it to US allies in Asia.
21 February 2025, 04:43 AM
US sends migrants from Guantanamo to Venezuela
The United States deported 177 migrants from its military base in Guantanamo, Cuba to their homeland in Venezuela Thursday, the latest sign of cooperation between the long-feuding governments.
21 February 2025, 03:59 AM
Trump’s support for Taiwan ‘very strong’
US support for Taiwan is “very strong”, Taipei’s security chief said yesterday, as the self-ruled island seeks to head off President Donald Trump’s threats of hefty tariffs on its semiconductor chips.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM
100 migrants moved to Panama jungle facility
A group of nearly 100 migrants deported from the US to Panama last week has been moved from a hotel in the capital to the Darien jungle region in the south of the country, Panama’s government said on Wednesday.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM
93 bodies found in mass graves in Libya
A total of 93 bodies have now been recovered from two mass graves found in Libya during raids on human trafficking networks, the United Nations said Wednesday.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Will work with Trump as ‘long as helpful’: Musk
Elon Musk has said he would work with US President Donald Trump for as long as he “can be helpful,” as the pair dismissed concerns over possible conflicts of interest due to the tech tycoon’s work with the White House.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump wants to be 'emperor of the world'
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva today accused Donald Trump of wanting to "become an emperor of the world"
20 February 2025, 16:05 PM
Hamas set to hand over bodies of four Israeli hostages
The transfer of the bodies is the first by Hamas since its October 7, 2023 attack on Israel triggered the war
20 February 2025, 07:58 AM
Trump calls for takeover of governance of Washington, D.C.
"I think that we should govern District of Columbia," Trump told reporters on Air Force Once.
20 February 2025, 07:53 AM
Trump expects visit from Chinese President Xi without giving timeline
Xi last travelled to the US in November 2023, in his fifth visit to the country as Chinese president
20 February 2025, 05:01 AM
US appeals court rejects Trump's bid to curtail birthright citizenship
It was the first time an appellate court had weighed in on Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, whose fate may ultimately be decided by the US Supreme Court.
20 February 2025, 02:44 AM
Egypt announces first discovery of pharaoh's tomb in more than 100 years
Located west of the Valley of the Kings, Thutmose II's tomb was the last lost tomb of the kings of Egypt's 18th dynasty
20 February 2025, 02:29 AM
Trump tells Zelenskiy to move fast for peace or lose Ukraine
Calls Zelenskiy 'a dictator without elections'
19 February 2025, 18:37 PM
Gunmen identify, kill 7 Punjabi travellers in Pakistan: govt official
Security forces have been battling sectarian, ethnic and separatist violence for decades in impoverished but mineral-rich Balochistan
19 February 2025, 07:56 AM
Major risks loom as Trump upends US Russia policy
Washington's approach changed dramatically with Tuesday's initial meeting between US and Russian negotiators.
19 February 2025, 07:19 AM
UN watchdog chief visits Fukushima as Japan returns to nuclear power
IAEA is monitoring Japan's efforts to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi plant after a 2011 earthquake-triggered tsunami killed 18,000 people and set off the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl
19 February 2025, 05:30 AM