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Taliban carry out 6th public execution since 2021
Taliban authorities in eastern Afghanistan yesterday executed a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium, the sixth public execution since their return to power.
13 November 2024, 18:00 PM
The Guardian quits X social media platform
British news publisher the Guardian said yesterday it will no longer post to X, citing “disturbing content” on the social media platform, including racism and conspiracy theories.
13 November 2024, 18:00 PM
14 dead in Pakistan wedding bus crash, bride survives
"There were 25 people on the bus and so far 14 dead bodies have been recovered while 10 are still missing," said Wazir Asad Ali, a rescue official in Gilgit-Baltistan.
13 November 2024, 06:55 AM
Airlines around Asia ground Bali flights after volcano erupts
Australia's Jetstar, Qantas and Virgin Australia all grounded flights after Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on Flores island spewed a nine-kilometre (5.6-mile) tower a day earlier.
13 November 2024, 06:39 AM
Trump picks former top US spy John Ratcliffe to lead CIA
Ratcliffe served as the nation's top spy from late May 2020 until Trump left office in January 2021.
13 November 2024, 05:19 AM
Aga Khan emerald fetches record $9 mn in Geneva auction
It is the world's most expensive green stone
13 November 2024, 04:20 AM
UK writer Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker with space novel
It is the 49-year-old Harvey's fifth novel, winning 15 years after her debut book "The Wilderness" was longlisted for the prize.
13 November 2024, 04:10 AM
How doodles got a Russian art teacher locked up for 20 years
His case illustrates the severity of the crackdown on dissent -- both real and imagined -- in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine.
13 November 2024, 04:05 AM
Global CO2 emissions to hit record high in 2024, report says
The Global Carbon Budget report, published during the U.N.'s COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, said global CO2 emissions are set to total 41.6 billion metric tons in 2024, up from 40.6 billion tons last year.
13 November 2024, 03:45 AM
Trump's cabinet: who's been picked, who's in the running?
Here are the early picks and top contenders for some of the key posts overseeing defense, intelligence, diplomacy, trade, immigration and economic policymaking
13 November 2024, 03:39 AM
At UN, US warns Israel against forcible displacement, starvation in Gaza
"Most of Gaza is now a wasteland of rubble," acting UN aid chief Joyce Msuya told the council.
13 November 2024, 00:39 AM
Trump says he will nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth for defense secretary
Hegseth is an Army National Guard veteran and according to his website served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
13 November 2024, 00:35 AM
Pay up or face climate disasters
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday told world leaders at the COP29 summit to “pay up” to prevent climate-led humanitarian disasters, and said time was running out to limit a destructive rise in global temperatures.
12 November 2024, 18:33 PM
China car ramming death toll hits 35
A man killed 35 people and injured 43 more when he ploughed his car into those exercising around a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai on Monday
12 November 2024, 18:32 PM
Judge pauses proceedings in Trump hush money case
A New York state judge has paused proceedings in President-elect Donald Trump’s already decided criminal case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a document made public yesterday showed.
12 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Justin Welby resigns as Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigned “in sorrow” yesterday, saying he had failed to ensure there was a proper investigation into allegations of abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps decades ago.
12 November 2024, 18:00 PM
35 killed, 43 hurt in south China
A hit-and-run attack at a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai killed 35 people and severely injured 43, local police said yesterday.
12 November 2024, 18:00 PM
11 killed in airstrike on teashop
Eleven people were killed when a teashop in Myanmar was hit by a military airstrike in the town of Naungcho in the northern Shan state yesterday afternoon, a spokesperson for a local ethnic armed group said.
12 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Gaza aid far from enough, UN warns
The UN warned yesterday that already low levels of aid trickling into Gaza had dwindled further, with the situation in the besieged north especially “catastrophic”.
12 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Israeli air strikes hit Beirut suburbs
The Israeli military pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs with airstrikes yesterday, mounting one of its heaviest daytime attacks yet on the Hezbollah-controlled area after the defence minister ruled out a ceasefire until Israeli goals were met.
12 November 2024, 18:00 PM