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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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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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Canada must investigate Indigenous children disappearances: report
An estimated 150,000 children were sent to the schools between 1831 and 1996. Many of them did not return.
30 October 2024, 04:44 AM
'Worst fear': Trump, US Capitol riot loom over Harris rally
Harris's closing argument to voters took place on the same spot where Donald Trump gave a fiery speech on January 6, 2021 to his backers, who then rioted at the Capitol building to try to undo President Joe Biden's election win.
30 October 2024, 04:26 AM
Gulf states condemn Israel's UNRWA ban
Israel's parliament on Monday overwhelmingly voted to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, from working in Israel and annexed east Jerusalem.
30 October 2024, 03:40 AM
Israel army chief vows to hit Iran 'very hard' if it retaliates
Addressing military personnel who took part in the weekend strike, Halevi said that certain targets had been set aside "because we may be required to do this again".
30 October 2024, 03:35 AM
Houthis target 3 ships in Red Sea, Arabian Sea
Yemen’s Houthis said on Monday that they targeted three ships in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, attacks they called part of their efforts to enforce a naval blockade on Israel.
29 October 2024, 18:00 PM
60 killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley
Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley overnight killed more than 60 people across a dozen towns, the district governor said yesterday, the deadliest day yet in the area in more than a year of hostilities.
29 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Indian army kills 3 rebels in J&K
Indian troops shot dead three suspected rebels in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) hours after gunmen sprayed a military convoy and an ambulance with bullets, the army said yesterday.
29 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Israeli strike kills 93 in north Gaza town
At least 93 Palestinians were killed and missing and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya yesterday, the Gaza health ministry said.
29 October 2024, 18:00 PM
For many, economy is personal and they blame Democrats
Tiesha Blackwell, 24, voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but says she is casting her ballot for Republican former president Donald Trump this year, and high food and housing prices are a chief reason.
29 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Sexual violence on 'staggering' scale in Sudan civil war: UN probe
Children are not spared the abuse, while women and girls are being abducted for sexual slavery, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan says in a new report x
29 October 2024, 10:14 AM
Ballot boxes burnt in US's Washington, Oregon; police suspect arson
Two separate blazes erupted Monday in Portland, Oregon, damaging three ballots, and Vancouver, Washington, destroying hundreds
29 October 2024, 09:25 AM
Hezbollah elects Naim Qassem to succeed slain head Nasrallah
Since Nasrallah's killing, Qassem has given three televised addresses, including one on Oct. 8 in which he said the armed group supported efforts to reach a ceasefire for Lebanon
29 October 2024, 09:13 AM
Indian forces kill 3 militants in 27-hour clash near Jammu border
Indian security forces today killed two militants in a forest near a village in the Akhnoor area of Jammu and Kashmir, bringing the total number of militants killed in the 27-hour gun battle near the disputed Pakistan border to three, officials said.
29 October 2024, 08:43 AM
Outcry as Israel bans main UN Palestinian aid agency
Despite objections from the United States and warnings from the UN Security Council, Israeli lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the bill banning the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, from working in Israel and occupied east Jerusalem.
29 October 2024, 05:55 AM
Over 150 injured in firecracker explosions at Kerala temple
More than 150 people were injured, including eight critically, as firecrackers exploded at a religious festival in a temple of India's Kerala late last night, according to police.
29 October 2024, 05:40 AM
North Korea sent 10,000 troops to train in Russia, US says
Seoul has long accused the nuclear-armed North of sending weapons to help Moscow fight Kyiv, and after Kim Jong Un signed a mutual defence deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in June, Pyongyang is alleged to have moved to deploy soldiers en masse.
29 October 2024, 05:18 AM
Myanmar's lost generation battles trauma, addiction at jungle rehab
Myanmar's military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's government in a February 2021 coup, igniting a conflict that has killed thousands, displaced nearly three million people and triggered a boom in drug production.
29 October 2024, 04:20 AM
Iraq opens arms to Lebanese fleeing Israeli attacks
According to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, more than 19,200 Lebanese have arrived in Iraq since the escalation of hostilities in Lebanon.
29 October 2024, 04:13 AM
Outrage as Iran executes German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd
Sharmahd, a German citizen of Iranian descent and a US resident, was seized by Iranian authorities in 2020 while travelling through the United Arab Emirates, according to his family.
29 October 2024, 04:08 AM
Malaysia's former PM Mahathir discharged from hospital
Mahathir, who served as prime minister for more than two decades, has a history of heart problems and has been in and out of hospital several times in recent years.
29 October 2024, 04:01 AM