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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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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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Syria won’t negatively interfere in Lebanon
Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Julani, told Lebanese Druze leaders yesterday that his country would not negatively interfere in Lebanon and would respect its neighbour’s sovereignty.
22 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Gaza rescuers say Israeli strikes kill 28
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes overnight and early Sunday killed at least 28 Palestinians, including at one family's home and at a school building the military said was used by Hamas
22 December 2024, 11:19 AM
Helicopter crashes into Turkish hospital, killing four
Four people died when a helicopter crashed into a hospital in southwestern Turkey on Sunday, the provincial governor said, blaming the accident on thick fog
22 December 2024, 09:49 AM
China says it 'firmly opposes' US military aid to Taiwan
"This move gravely infringes on China's sovereignty and security interests," Beijing's foreign ministry said in a statement, adding it "firmly opposes this action".
22 December 2024, 06:01 AM
Trump threatens to take back control of Panama Canal
The Panama Canal, which was completed by the United States in 1914, was returned to the Central American country under a 1977 deal signed by Democratic president Jimmy Carter.
22 December 2024, 04:06 AM
38 die in bus accident in southeastern Brazil
At least 38 people were killed in a bus crash in southeastern Brazil on Saturday, officials said, in what President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called a "terrible tragedy"
22 December 2024, 04:05 AM
A fentanyl antidote is saving lives - but isn't ending the fentanyl crisis
The lifesaving nasal-spray medicine is everywhere in the 10 or more Hilltop “trap” houses where users come to buy and take fentanyl. Distributed free by local officials, supplies are abundant at the house where Sleaze smokes fentanyl and works security in exchange for drugs.
22 December 2024, 03:53 AM
Syrian Kurdish groups on the back foot as power balance shifts
The seismic change in Syria is expected to yield deeper Turkish sway just as a change of US administration is raising questions over how long Washington will keep backing the country's Kurdish-led forces.
22 December 2024, 03:48 AM
Brazil bus accident kills at least 32
At least 32 people died early yesterday when a bus crashed into a truck and then caught fire in southeastern Brazil, officials said.
21 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Bolivia crash kills 13 as bus and truck collide
At least 13 people were killed and three injured on Friday when a truck and a bus collided on a highway in the Bolivian Andes
21 December 2024, 02:18 AM
Eight dead in Greece migrant boat sinking
Greece’s coastguard yesterday said at least eight people had drowned during the pursuit of a smuggling speedboat that sank in the Aegean Sea.
20 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Pelicot’s ex- husband jailed for 20 yrs in France
A French court yesterday found all 51 defendants guilty in a drugging-and-rape case that horrified the world and transformed the victim, Gisele Pelicot, into a stirring symbol of resilience and courage.
19 December 2024, 18:00 PM
100 N Korean soldiers dead in Ukraine war
At least 100 North Korean troops deployed to Russia have been killed with another 1,000 injured in combat against Ukrainian forces in intense fighting in the Kursk region, a South Korean lawmaker said yesterday citing the country’s spy agency.
19 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Myanmar junta pushed polls plan in talks with neighbours
The top diplomat of Myanmar’s ruling junta briefed neighbouring countries on its plans to hold an election next year amid an escalating civil war, including potentially inviting foreign poll observers, Thai officials said yesterday.
19 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Five killed as Indian soldiers battle rebels in J&K
Indian security forces in Kashmir yesterday killed at least five suspected gunmen in ongoing clashes, the army said, the latest outbreak of violence in the disputed Muslim-majority Himalayan region.
19 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Won’t halt Syria military activity until Kurd fighters ‘disarm’
Ankara will push ahead with its military preparations until Kurdish fighters “disarm”, a defence ministry source said yesterday, stressing Turkey faces an ongoing threat along its border with northern Syria.
19 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Israel committing ‘acts of genocide’
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination.
19 December 2024, 18:00 PM
US imposes more sanctions over Pak missile program
Pakistan’s government said yesterday that US sanctions imposed on state-owned and private companies over its long-range ballistic missile programme were “biased” and had “dangerous implications” for regional stability.
19 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Dominique Pelicot jailed for 20 years in landmark French rape case that horrified the world
The Frenchman drugged his wife and invited dozens of men to rape her over about a decade
19 December 2024, 09:27 AM
California declares emergency over bird flu scare
US confirmed 61 human cases since April, mostly in dairy workers
19 December 2024, 07:03 AM