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The holy city in India where thousands go to die
Some stay only days, others wait decades, but the crowds of elderly Indian Hindu devotees are calm and confident that their one-way pilgrimage to death will deliver everlasting peace.
8 September 2024, 18:00 PM
French largely satisfied with Macron’s PM choice: poll
The French are largely satisfied with the appointment of the centre-right Michel Barnier as prime minister, but believe he will not last long in his new post, a poll said yesterday.
8 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Le Pen urges Macron to hold referendum
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen yesterday urged President Emmanuel Macron to hold a referendum on key issues such as immigration, suggesting that giving the French a direct vote might help break the political deadlock.
8 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Russia’s RT will continue to work in West: editor
Russian state media outlet RT, which the United States has accused of trying to influence its presidential election, will continue to work in the West by going around any limits or sanctions, its editor-in-chief said yesterday.
8 September 2024, 18:00 PM
‘Time is now’ for peace
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz yesterday called for diplomatic efforts to be intensified to achieve peace in Ukraine “more quickly”, as the war grinds through its third year.
8 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Survey on us presidential race: Harris, Trump tied on eve of debate
The US presidential race remains neck-and-neck according to polls released yesterday, two days before Kamala Harris and Donald Trump hold their first -- and potentially only -- televised debate.
8 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Building collapse kills 8 in Lucknow
Indian rescuers yesterday pulled out eight bodies from the wreckage of a three-storey building in the city of Lucknow, reports said, with the state minister calling the deaths “heart breaking”.
8 September 2024, 18:00 PM
India records first ‘mpox case’
India yesterday reported that it had put a “suspected mpox case” into isolation, assuring that the world’s most populous nation had “robust measures” in place, the health ministry said in a statement.
8 September 2024, 18:00 PM
British unions call for Labour to fix public services
The Labour Party has historically been allied with trade union organisations, which contribute a substantial amount to the party's income.
8 September 2024, 08:07 AM
Bolivia declares national emergency due to forest fires
Bolivia has seen the largest number of wildfires since 2010 with at least 3 million hectares (7.5 million acres) burned this year according to Inpe, Brazil's space research agency that monitors fires.
8 September 2024, 05:12 AM
Venezuela says presidential opposition candidate has left country
A lawyer for Gonzalez Urrutia confirmed to AFP the opposition candidate had departed for Spain.
8 September 2024, 04:16 AM
Women ride Pakistan's economic crisis into the workplace
The South Asian nation is locked in a cycle of political and economic crises, dependent on IMF bailouts and loans from friendly countries to service its debt.
8 September 2024, 04:08 AM
Manhunt underway in US after Kentucky highway shooting
The shooting did not appear to be random, he told the Louisville Courier Journal, while a radio host reported that it was sparked "by two cars in an altercation."
8 September 2024, 04:01 AM
Indian rescuers pull eight dead from collapsed building
PTI quoted officials as saying eight bodies had been pulled out, and 28 people were injured.
8 September 2024, 03:30 AM
In Papua New Guinea, Pope holds mass 'at the edge of the world'
The 87-year-old pontiff led an estimated 35,000 people in prayer from Port Moresby's main stadium, the latest stop on this gruelling 12-day trip across the Asia-Pacific.
8 September 2024, 03:19 AM
Harris, Trump to clash in high-stakes debate
The Democratic vice president and Republican former president will face off in Philadelphia on Tuesday in their first -- and possibly only -- televised debate before what promises to be a nail-bitingly close 2024 election.
8 September 2024, 03:15 AM
Stonehenge Altar Stone mystery deepens
The mysterious origins of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone has deepened as new research has found it did not come from Orkney
7 September 2024, 14:33 PM
UK, US spy chiefs warn of threat to world order
CIA Director Bill Burns and UK MI6 chief Richard Moore warned on Saturday that the world order was "under threat in a way we haven't seen since the cold war"
7 September 2024, 12:30 PM
Deadly Super Typhoon Yagi hits Vietnam
The typhoon hit Hai Phong and Quang Ninh provinces, packing winds exceeding 149 kilometres (92 miles) per hour, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said.
7 September 2024, 07:41 AM
Boeing's beleaguered Starliner back home empty
After years of delays, Starliner launched in June for what was meant to be a roughly weeklong test mission -- a final shakedown before it could be certified to ferry crew to and from the orbital laboratory.
7 September 2024, 04:45 AM