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Gunmen kill Pak militia chief, 5 others
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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Former US President Bill Clinton hospitalised with fever
It is not an emergency situation, NBC News reported
24 December 2024, 03:45 AM
Israel acknowledges it killed ex-Hamas leader Haniyeh in Tehran
Haniyeh was killed in a guesthouse in Tehran on July 31
24 December 2024, 03:34 AM
Panama rejects Trump’s threat to take control of Canal
Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino on Sunday dismissed recent threats made by US President-elect Donald Trump to retake control of the Panama Canal over complaints of “unfair” treatment of American ships.
23 December 2024, 18:00 PM
India police kill 3 Sikh separatist militants
Indian police said yesterday they had killed three Sikh militants fighting for a separate homeland known as “Khalistan”, the struggle for which sparked deadly violence in the 1980s and 1990s.
23 December 2024, 18:00 PM
North Korea suffers 1,100 casualties
More than 1,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded in Russia’s war with Ukraine, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said yesterday.
23 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Joe Biden commutes sentences of 37 death row inmates
US President Joe Biden yesterday commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to life in prison without parole before he hands over power to President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20.
23 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Only 12 trucks delivered food, water since Oct
Just 12 trucks distributed food and water in northern Gaza in two-and-a-half months, aid group Oxfam said on Sunday, raising the alarm over the worsening humanitarian situation in the besieged territory.
23 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Indian FM to visit US from Dec 24-29
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is set to embark on a six-day official visit to the United States from tomorrow to discuss key bilateral, regional and global issues
23 December 2024, 13:38 PM
Woman killed when set on fire on New York subway train, police say
Asked whether the man watching from the bench was the attacker, police said that responding officers had no reason to think he was a suspect when they rushed to the woman's aid.
23 December 2024, 10:53 AM
Biden commutes sentences for 37 of 40 federal death row inmates
With less than a month left in office, Biden had faced growing calls from death penalty opponents to commute the sentences of those on death row to life in prison without parole, which the 37 will now serve.
23 December 2024, 10:25 AM
Musk, president? Trump says 'not happening'
The US Constitution requires that a president be a natural-born US citizen.
23 December 2024, 09:06 AM
Luxury Western goods line Russian stores, three years into sanctions
The picture is a far cry from the West's claims that its sanctions would collapse the Russian economy and cut it off from the outside world.
23 December 2024, 08:56 AM
Syria's new leader says all weapons to come under 'state control'
Ankara-backed rebels played a key role in supporting Sharaa's Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which headed a rebel alliance that seized Damascus on December 8, toppling longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.
23 December 2024, 04:20 AM
Brazil plane crash killed family of 10
The plane, a Piper Cheyenne 400 turboprop, was being flown by a businessman named Luiz Claudio Salgueiro Galeazzi, police confirmed to AFP, and the passengers were all family members of his.
23 December 2024, 04:10 AM
At least 3,100 Native Americans died in US boarding schools: report
From 1819 until the 1970s, the United States ran hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country to involuntarily assimilate Native children into European settler culture, including forced conversion to Christianity.
23 December 2024, 04:04 AM
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to sell Foxtel to Britain's DAZN for $2.1 bln
News Corp will gain a board seat and hold a 6% stake in DAZN, a London-headquartered global streaming platform available in North America, Europe, and Asia and backed by Ukranian-born billionaire Len Blavatnik.
23 December 2024, 03:51 AM
US fighter shot down over Red Sea
The US military said it mistakenly shot down one of its own fighter aircraft over the Red Sea early yesterday, forcing both pilots to eject.
22 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Putin vows ‘destruction’ on Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday vowed to bring more “destruction” to Ukraine in retaliation for a drone attack on the central Russian city of Kazan a day earlier.
22 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Trump threatens to take back control of Panama Canal
Incoming US president Donald Trump on Saturday slammed what he called unfair fees for US ships passing through the Panama Canal and threatened to demand control of the waterway be returned to US.
22 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Suspect held on murder charges
A man suspected of ploughing a car through crowds at a German Christmas market in an attack that killed five people and injured scores faces multiple charges of murder and attempted murder, police said yesterday.
22 December 2024, 18:00 PM