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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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Colombia caves on deportations after Trump threats
Trump said he would suspend implementation of the tariffs.
27 January 2025, 03:40 AM
Trump border czar defends school, church raids as agencies target Chicago
Trump began his second term last Monday with a flurry of executive actions aimed at overhauling US immigration
27 January 2025, 03:20 AM
Sweden seizes ship suspected of Baltic Sea cable 'sabotage'
Swedish prosecutors opened an investigation into "aggravated sabotage", according to a statement from the Scandinavian nation's prosecutors' office.
27 January 2025, 03:04 AM
Israel says Gazans can return home as more hostage releases agreed
Israel had been preventing vast crowds of Palestinians from using a coastal road to return to northern Gaza
27 January 2025, 02:56 AM
Trump slaps tariffs, sanctions as Colombia defies deportation push
Colombia's left-leaning President Gustavo Petro did not back down, announcing his own tariffs against US products
27 January 2025, 02:51 AM
Turkish court jails lawyer over alleged terror ties
Turkey has put behind bars a lawyer on charges of alleged ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) listed as a terror group by Ankara and its Western allies, local media reported yesterday.
26 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Militants kill 27 Nigerian troops
Suspected Islamist fighters killed at least 27 Nigerian soldiers, including a commanding officer, after attacking an army base in a remote town in northeastern Borno state, security sources and residents said yesterday.
26 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump again demands to buy Greenland: report
US President Donald Trump had a fiery phone call with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen over his demands to buy Greenland, according to senior European officials.
26 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump's first week: everything, everywhere, all at once
From Trump and his supporters, the theme has been one of regal, even divine, power.
26 January 2025, 09:43 AM
US-bound refugees in Hong Kong despair as Trump halts arrivals
Trump's executive order to suspend all refugee admissions and halt the US asylum programme
26 January 2025, 07:16 AM
Trump floats plan to 'just clean out' Gaza
Trump said moving Gaza's inhabitants could be "temporarily or could be long term."
26 January 2025, 05:41 AM
Trump's Canada, Mexico tariff threat aimed at gaining leverage in trade talks: experts
Mexico's auto industry has been a target, with Trump threatening 200 percent tariffs on its vehicle imports. For Canada, Trump's recent main gripe has been a trade deficit.
26 January 2025, 04:03 AM
CIA says Covid 'more likely' to have leaked from lab
The new assessment came after John Ratcliffe was confirmed Thursday as the CIA director under the second White House administration of Donald Trump.
26 January 2025, 03:56 AM
Fragile Gaza truce enters second week
During the first six-week phase, 33 hostages should be freed in staggered releases in exchange for around 1,900 Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
26 January 2025, 03:04 AM
Trump suggests US releasing 2,000-pound bombs to Israel
Biden's administration last year halted shipments of 2,000-pound bombs when it appeared Israel was poised to launch a major ground operation in heavily populated areas of Gaza
26 January 2025, 03:00 AM
Drone attack on hospital kills 30 in Darfur
A drone attack on one of the last functioning hospitals in El-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region killed 30 people and injured dozens, a medical source said yesterday.
25 January 2025, 18:00 PM
4 Israel soldiers released in Gaza; 200 Palestinians prisoners freed
A total of 200 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails have been freed under the terms of a Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Seventy of them will be deported to countries in the region.
25 January 2025, 14:46 PM
Hamas frees four Israeli hostages in Gaza under truce deal
They had been held captive in the Palestinian territory since Hamas seized them during their attack on Israel on October 7, 2023
25 January 2025, 09:25 AM
Israel to free 200 Palestinian prisoners in Saturday swap
The prisoners include 120 who are serving life sentences
25 January 2025, 08:59 AM
Trump fires at least 12 internal govt watchdogs: US media
Inspectors general have an oversight role to detect and deter fraud, waste and abuse by government employees.
25 January 2025, 08:44 AM