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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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No reduction in Gaza hunger since truce: WHO
23 October 2025, 17:44 PM
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23 October 2025, 07:34 AM
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23 October 2025, 06:50 AM
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Death toll now 29
More than 30,000 people have been forced to flee their homes due to severe flooding in southern Thailand, where the death toll climbed to 29, officials said yesterday.
4 December 2024, 18:00 PM
‘World on fire’
The UN yesterday appealed for more than $47 billion to deliver vital aid next year in a world ravaged by surging conflicts and the climate crisis, but warned many in need would not be reached.
4 December 2024, 18:00 PM
An elaborate global system exists to prevent famine. It’s failing.
In three countries now suffering severe food crises, Reuters found that governments or rebels have blocked or falsified the flow of data to the IPC or have tried to suppress its findings.
4 December 2024, 11:30 AM
Nepal, China sign deal on Belt and Road plan, paving way for progress on projects
Nepal and China signed an initial deal in 2017 for President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative, which aims to build China's infrastructure and trade links with the world.
4 December 2024, 11:26 AM
Taiwan romance novelist Chiung Yao dies at 86
Chiung Yao was a prolific writer, publishing over 60 books in a career spanning more than five decades.
4 December 2024, 11:18 AM
Staff at UK's Guardian strike over sister paper's planned sale
Around 500 journalists at both papers began the 48-hour strike against the sale to the online news group Tortoise Media.
4 December 2024, 11:06 AM
MPs begin push to impeach South Korean president
South Korean lawmakers yesterday accused President Yoon Suk Yeol of declaring martial law to stop criminal investigations into himself and his family, as they kickstarted a push to impeach him.
4 December 2024, 06:12 AM
China calls on universities to provide 'love education'
Beijing has been promoting various measures to try to make having children more attractive to young couples after China posted a second consecutive year of population decline in 2023.
4 December 2024, 04:07 AM
UN General Assembly pushes for Palestinian state
In a resolution passed by a 157-8 vote, with the United States and Israel among those voting no, and seven abstentions, the Assembly expressed "unwavering support, in accordance with international law, for the two-state solution of Israel and Palestine."
4 December 2024, 03:26 AM
Life has 'disappeared': Mexican city reeling from cartel infighting
Years of relative quiet in Sinaloa, a predominantly agricultural state home to the notorious cartel of the same name, were shattered in September when two rival factions of the drug gang went to war.
4 December 2024, 03:19 AM
South Korea's President Yoon reverses martial law after lawmakers defy him
Protesters outside the National Assembly parliament shouted and clapped. “We won!” they chanted, and one demonstrator banged on a drum.
4 December 2024, 00:46 AM
Ex-Pak PM booked over Rangers’ deaths
Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan was booked in a murder case in connection with the death of paramilitary personnel who were run over by a speeding vehicle on the Srinagar Highway last week during a protest by the PTI.
3 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Israel issues new evacuation orders in Gaza
Israeli military strikes killed at least 14 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip yesterday, most of them in the town of Beit Lahiya on the northern edge, medics said, as the army issued new evacuation orders in the south of the tiny enclave.
3 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Halt truce breaches
Top Lebanese officials have urged Washington and Paris to press Israel to uphold a ceasefire, after dozens of military operations on Lebanese soil that Beirut has deemed violations, two senior Lebanese political sources told Reuters yesterday.
3 December 2024, 18:00 PM
‘Ceasefire holding’ in Lebanon: Blinken
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday said the ceasefire in Lebanon was “holding” despite a series of incidents between Israel and Iran-backed militants Hezbollah.
3 December 2024, 18:00 PM
China bans export of key minerals to US as trade frictions escalate
"The export of gallium, germanium, antimony, and superhard materials to the United States shall not be permitted"
3 December 2024, 12:45 PM
ICC head hits back at ‘attacks’, ‘threats’
The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday lashed out against attacks on the court, which finds itself under the spotlight after issuing arrest warrants over wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
2 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Nepal PM Oli embarks on China visit
Nepal’s prime minister yesterday left for his first bilateral visit to China, a departure from the usual practice by the Himalayan republic’s leaders of making India their first official destination.
2 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Wars, regional tensions boost arms sales
Sales by major arms makers were boosted last year by wars in Ukraine and Gaza and tensions in Asia, with marked increases for manufacturers based in Russia and the Middle East, a report said yesterday.
2 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Cyclone Fengal toll rises to 20 in South Asia
The death toll from Cyclone Fengal’s fierce push through Sri Lanka and southern India reached 20 yesterday as downpours and flooding followed the storm’s wake after its winds calmed.
2 December 2024, 18:00 PM