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23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Blast at central Russian plant kills 10: governor
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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Israeli tanks push deeper into Gaza
Israel sent tanks deeper into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday and advised people to leave as it pounded the historic Palestinian refugee camp from the air, residents said.
8 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Immigrants bring ‘bad genes’ into US: Trump
Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump said Monday that illegal immigrants were bringing “bad genes” into the US.
8 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Lebanon could face same ‘spiral of doom’
UN humanitarian officials yesterday called for urgent action to stop the escalating conflict in Lebanon from spiralling into a similar scene of devastation as seen in Gaza.
8 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Hopfield and Hinton win 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for key breakthroughs in AI
The physics prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
8 October 2024, 09:42 AM
Turkey says will evacuate citizens from Lebanon on Wednesday
Turkey is sending ships to evacuate around 2,000 of its citizens from Lebanon on Wednesday, the foreign ministry said.
8 October 2024, 07:00 AM
Israel-Hezbollah fighting intensifies, Hamas vows to rise again
Israel's military said the air force was carrying out extensive bombings of Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon and two Israeli soldiers were killed, taking the Israeli military death toll inside Lebanon to 11.
8 October 2024, 04:57 AM
Interpol bids to identify 46 dead 'cold case' women
Most of the women were "murdered or had died in suspicious or unexplained circumstances," the Lyon-based organisation said.
8 October 2024, 04:17 AM
Myanmar to send rep to regional summit for first time in three years
ASEAN barred Myanmar junta leaders from its summits in the wake of their February 2021 coup, and the generals have refused to send "non-political representatives" instead.
8 October 2024, 04:11 AM
Category 5 Hurricane Milton roars towards storm-battered Florida
Milton, which is forecast to batter Mexico's Yucatan peninsula as it churns eastward, rapidly intensified to the highest category on a scale of five, triggering evacuation orders and warnings of savage conditions on Florida's west coast.
8 October 2024, 04:05 AM
'Invisibility' and quantum computing tipped for physics Nobel
Predicting a winner is always tricky but this year, Nobel buzz has spotlighted, among others, Israeli-British physicist David Deutsch, a professor at the University of Oxford, and American mathematician Peter Shor.
8 October 2024, 03:40 AM
Telegram app hosts ‘underground markets’: UN report
Powerful criminal networks in Southeast Asia extensively use the messaging app Telegram which has enabled a fundamental change in the way organised crime can conduct large-scale illicit activity, the United Nations said in a report yesterday.
7 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Modi, Muizzu promise to strengthen cooperation
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu held talks yesterday, with New Delhi promising to strengthen strategic cooperation as the island nation recovers from an economic crisis.
7 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Kamala Harris slams Trump over reproductive rights
Kamala Harris slammed her White House rival Donald Trump’s “lies” over reproductive rights Sunday, as both candidates sought an edge in the final month of a deadlocked US presidential election.
7 October 2024, 18:00 PM
MicroRNA discoverers Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun win Nobel Prize in medicine
MicroRNA is a new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene regulation
7 October 2024, 09:56 AM
New blast near Israeli embassy in Denmark
The blast occurred some 500 metres (yards) from the embassy in Copenhagen and came five days after two explosions near the building for which two Swedish nationals have been remanded in custody
7 October 2024, 08:48 AM
Pakistan bans ethnic Pashtun rights movement critical of military
The group, which is not a political party, has at its peak pulled tens of thousands of people to largely peaceful rallies demanding better protection from the state.
7 October 2024, 07:45 AM
Mexico mayor murdered days after taking office
The mayor of a city in southern Mexico has been murdered less than a week after taking office, authorities said Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks on politicians in the violence-plagued Latin American country.
7 October 2024, 06:04 AM
Four projectiles fired from Gaza as Israel begins October 7 commemorations: army
The Israeli military said Monday that at least four projectiles were fired from the Gaza Strip just minutes after the country began to formally commemorate last year's October 7 attacks.
7 October 2024, 04:56 AM
Guns, transgender rights on docket for US Supreme Court fall term
David Cole, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which frequently brings cases before the highest court, said he expects "a much quieter term than we've had in the last couple of years."
7 October 2024, 04:43 AM
Blast kills two Chinese nationals in Pakistan's biggest city
The regional government of southern Sindh province said on X that a "tanker" had exploded on the airport motorway.
7 October 2024, 04:35 AM