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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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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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Taiwan receives first batch of US-made Abrams tanks
Taiwan has received 38 advanced Abrams battle tanks from the United States, the defence ministry said yesterday, reportedly the island’s first new tanks in 30 years.
16 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain in ICU, but 'still alive'
Indian media ran stories on his passing away. Even the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting posted about the artist's death on X, only to delete it later.
15 December 2024, 19:25 PM
‘Bali Nine’ drug ring prisoners fly home to Australia
The five remaining members of the Australian “Bali Nine” drug ring flew home yesterday after 19 years in jail in Indonesia, ending a saga that had frayed relations between the two countries.
15 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Afghan coal mine collapse traps 32
A coal mine collapsed in northern Afghanistan trapping 32 miners, a provincial official told AFP yesterday, adding rescuers had been working for hours to reach the men.
15 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Trump gets $15m in ABC News defamation case
ABC News will pay a $15 million settlement payment to resolve a defamation lawsuit brought by President-elect Donald Trump, according to court documents filed Saturday.
15 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Israel ‘crossed the lines of engagement’
Israel struck dozens of sites in Syria overnight with airstrikes, despite Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani saying his Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group was not interested in conflict with Israel.
15 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Israeli strikes kill 20 in Gaza
Israeli troops killed at least 20 Palestinians, most of them in the northern Gaza Strip, on airstrikes and other attacks on targets that included a school sheltering displaced Gazans, medics and residents said yesterday.
15 December 2024, 18:00 PM
N Korean troops join Russian assaults: Kyiv
Russia has begun using North Korean troops in significant numbers for the first time to conduct assaults on Ukrainian forces battling to hold an enclave in Russia’s Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday evening.
15 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain admitted to ICU in critical condition
After multiple reports of his death surfaced online, The Indian Express quoted Hussain’s sister Khurshid Aulia as saying that he is alive and breathing
15 December 2024, 14:39 PM
Oldest Miss France clinches crown at 34
A 34-year-old flight attendant from the French Caribbean island of Martinique on Saturday became the oldest contestant to win the Miss France pageant
15 December 2024, 13:32 PM
South Korean opposition urges swift removal of impeached President Yoon
Lawmakers voted on Saturday to remove Yoon from office over his "insurrectionary" suspension of civilian rule, which plunged South Korea into some of its worst political turmoil in years.
15 December 2024, 06:58 AM
Biden calls alliance with South Korea 'linchpin for peace' in region
South Korean lawmakers voted on Saturday to impeach Yoon over his brief declaration of martial law
15 December 2024, 06:15 AM
Trump taps Truth Social CEO to lead intelligence advisory board
Nunes is a Republican ex-congressman from California who led the US House intelligence committee during the start of Trump's first presidential term.
15 December 2024, 05:11 AM
Ex-prisoners back in Syria's cells 'of despair'
Darwish was detained for months by one of the most feared branches of the former government's many-tentacled intelligence services.
15 December 2024, 03:36 AM
ABC News settles $15 mn defamation suit with Donald Trump
The news organization and Stephanopoulos will also issue public apologies saying they "regret statements" made about Trump during the aforementioned interview
15 December 2024, 03:30 AM
AI with reasoning power will be less predictable: expert
Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, one of the biggest names in artificial intelligence, had a prediction to make on Friday: reasoning capabilities will make technology far less predictable.
14 December 2024, 18:00 PM
The troubled history of South Korean presidents
South Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee, elected in 1948, was forced to resign by a popular student-led uprising in 1960
14 December 2024, 09:31 AM
South Korea's 11 days of turmoil
Here is a recap of events leading to the crucial vote to suspend him from office
14 December 2024, 08:51 AM
In search for US journalist Austin Tice, a clue from 11 years ago
Tice’s 2013 escape, reported here for the first time, was the first public sighting of the American after he disappeared, the officials said.
14 December 2024, 07:34 AM
BBC complains to Apple over fake news AI notification
The BBC on Friday said it had filed a complaint with US tech giant Apple over AI-generated fake news that was shared on iPhones and attributed to the British public broadcaster
14 December 2024, 06:15 AM