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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
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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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Russians holiday at home as sanctions put Europe out of reach
Like millions of Russians, Natalia and Igor spent their summer break at home this year, as Western sanctions and travel restrictions shut the country off from most European tourism destinations.
4 September 2024, 06:08 AM
Climate change intensifying Sicily, Sardinia droughts: study
Rivers have dried up, crops have withered and drinking water has been rationed in a part of Italy where agriculture and tourism are crucial, prompting both Sicily and Sardinia to declare a state of emergency.
4 September 2024, 04:32 AM
The holy city in India where thousands go to die
"This is god's own land," the 92-year-old said, resting at the near-end of a long and hard life.
4 September 2024, 04:24 AM
HRW reports 'widespread' rights violations' in Venezuela
It blamed Venezuelan authorities and pro-government armed groups known as "colectivos" for killings, arbitrary detentions and harassment of critics following the disputed vote.
4 September 2024, 04:13 AM
Time for a Gaza truce deal, says US
Miller said Washington would work "over the coming days" with fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar "to push for a final agreement".
4 September 2024, 04:09 AM
11 killed in China school bus mishap
Eleven people were killed in China’s eastern Shandong province yesterday after a school bus lost control at a busy pedestrian junction, broadcaster CCTV reported, with disturbing footage showing bodies lying on the road and trapped under the vehicle.
3 September 2024, 18:00 PM
129 dead in DRC
At least 129 people were killed during a weekend prison break attempt at the largest jail in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the interior minister said yesterday.
3 September 2024, 18:00 PM
9 Maoists killed
Indian police killed at least nine Maoist rebels during a gunfight yesterday, officials said, with security forces still searching the forest for more remains and weapons.
3 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Thailand nets 1.3m kgs of invasive fish
Thailand has netted more than 1.3 million kilograms of highly destructive blackchin tilapia fish, the government said Tuesday, as it battles to stamp out the invasive species.
3 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Russian strikes kill 41 in Ukraine
At least 41 people were killed and more than 180 wounded yesterday when Russia struck a military institute in the central town of Poltava with two missiles, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, the war’s deadliest single attack so far this year.
3 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Indian job recruitment deaths highlight unemployment crisis
India launched a probe Tuesday after 12 applicants for coveted government jobs died during physical tests for posts as excise officers, with commentators saying it illustrated the scale of the country’s unemployment crisis.
3 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Israeli PM signals no appetite for Gaza truce
Remains defiant amid mounting criticism at home, abroad; 18 more die in Gaza
3 September 2024, 16:57 PM
Elite defections surge 2.5 times under Kim Jong-un
In North Korea, high-ranking officials in the party, government, and military, as well as diplomats and overseas representatives, make up the core elite supporting the regime
2 September 2024, 19:28 PM
I had ‘every right’ to interfere in last polls: Trump
Former US President Donald Trump, who faces federal and state charges for allegedly trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden, insists he had “every right” to interfere in the election.
2 September 2024, 18:00 PM
West should permit Ukraine to launch long-range attacks
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy yesterday said Ukraine’s Western allies should not only allow their weapons to be used for strikes deep inside Russia, but also supply Kyiv with more of the arms themselves.
2 September 2024, 18:00 PM
'North Korea must either open up transparently or collapse'
Ri Il-gyu, a former political counselor at the North Korean embassy in Cuba who defected last year, said in an interview with the Chosun Ilbo on July 14, “Kim Jong-un must have felt a great shock and betrayal about the diplomatic relations between South Korea and Cuba (earlier this year).
1 September 2024, 20:06 PM
Russia ‘thwarts drone attack from Ukraine’
Russia yesterday said that it had thwarted a “massive” Ukrainian drone attack by downing 158 drones across 15 regions, including two over the capital Moscow.
1 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Algeria joins BRICS Bank
Algeria has been approved for membership in the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), the country’s finance ministry has announced.
1 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Mothers’ fight to expose CIA’s brainwash programme
A group of Indigenous women are hoping to stop the bulldozers at a former Montreal hospital which they believe could hold the truth about children still missing from a grisly half-century-old CIA experiment.
1 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Raisi chopper crash caused by weather: Iran
Iran’s final investigation into the May helicopter crash that killed president Ebrahim Raisi has found it was caused by bad weather, the body investigating the case said yesterday.
1 September 2024, 18:00 PM