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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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23 October 2025, 07:34 AM
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23 October 2025, 06:50 AM
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Iran slams US obstruction of Security Council on Gaza, Lebanon
Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi slammed as "a disaster" on Monday what he called US obstruction of the United Nations Security Council in relation to the wars in Lebanon and Gaza.
14 October 2024, 14:38 PM
Lebanese Red Cross says 18 killed in strike in north
The Lebanese Red Cross said 18 people died in a strike on north Lebanon on Monday, with the health ministry and official media reporting an Israeli raid on the Christian-majority area far from Hezbollah strongholds.
14 October 2024, 14:36 PM
Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson win 2024 Nobel economics prize
The prestigious award, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is the final prize to be given out this year and is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million).
14 October 2024, 09:53 AM
China's military encircles Taiwan in 'warning' drills
Outlying islands administered by Taipei were on "heightened alert" and "aircraft and ships will respond to enemy situations in accordance with the engagement rules", Taiwan's defence ministry said.
14 October 2024, 09:17 AM
Pakistan 'vigilantes' behind rise in online blasphemy cases
Blasphemy is an incendiary charge in Muslim-majority Pakistan, where even unsubstantiated accusations can incite public outrage and lead to lynchings.
14 October 2024, 09:12 AM
SpaceX catches first ever megarocket booster in test flight
SpaceX yesterday launched its fifth Starship test flight from Texas and returned the rocket’s towering first stage booster back to land for the first time, achieving a novel recovery method involving large metal arms.
13 October 2024, 18:48 PM
Netanyahu tells UN to move Lebanon peacekeepers out of 'harm's way'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the UN chief on Sunday to move peacekeepers deployed in south Lebanon out of "harm's way", saying Hezbollah was using them as "human shields"
13 October 2024, 14:19 PM
11 killed, 8 hurt in Pak firing incidents
At least 11 people were killed and eight were injured in shooting incidents in Kunj Alizai area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram district, hospital and local officials said yesterday.
12 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Japanese anti-nuke group wins Nobel Peace Prize
Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, in a warning to countries that have nuclear weapons not to use them.
11 October 2024, 18:25 PM
US, its allies clash with Russia, China
The US and its allies yesterday clashed with Russia and China at an Asean meet in Laos dominated by disputes on maritime claims and Ukraine.
11 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Russia, Iran hail ‘close’ world views
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian yesterday hailed their “close” views on world affairs, with the Russian leader saying ties with Tehran were a “priority” for Moscow.
11 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Japanese atomic bomb survivor group Nihon Hidankyo wins Nobel Peace Prize
Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize
11 October 2024, 09:18 AM
20 Pakistan coal miners shot dead in attack: police
Twenty coal miners were shot dead in an overnight attack by a group of heavily armed men who laid siege to their lodgings in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, police said Friday.
11 October 2024, 05:22 AM
At least 11 dead in Florida but Hurricane Milton not as bad as feared
At least 11 people died as Hurricane Milton sent tornadoes spinning across Florida, officials said Thursday as the state grappled with flooding, power outages and other woes from a milder than expected storm that many had feared would be catastrophic.
11 October 2024, 05:17 AM
Israel army says top Islamic Jihad commander killed in West Bank
Israel's army said Friday it had killed Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad's top commander for the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
11 October 2024, 05:14 AM
Israel strikes central Beirut, killing 22
An Israeli air strike killed at least 22 people in central Beirut on Thursday as Israeli ground troops in Lebanon were accused of firing on the UN's peacekeeping headquarters, injuring two Blue Helmets.
11 October 2024, 05:08 AM
Trump vows to unleash American energy
White House hopeful Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed during a pair of speeches in crucial battleground Pennsylvania to unleash American energy and “drill, baby, drill” as he misrepresented America’s blockbuster record on fossil fuel production.
10 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Israeli troops fire at 3 UNIFIL positions
Israeli troops opened fire at three positions held by UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon yesterday, said a UN source, adding that one of the locations fired at was UNIFIL’s main base at Naqoura.
10 October 2024, 18:00 PM
India prepares to build two nuke-powered attack subs
India approved on Wednesday plans to construct two of a new class of nuclear-powered attack submarines, two defence officials said, in a project estimated to cost about 450 billion rupees.
10 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Myanmar peace efforts ‘substantially inadequate’
Southeast Asian leaders yesterday condemned Myanmar’s efforts to implement a plan to end the country’s civil war as “substantially inadequate”, according to a draft summit statement seen by AFP.
10 October 2024, 18:00 PM