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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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Methane threat grows as global action stalls: UN
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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Harris raises $540m since launching her campaign
Democrat Kamala Harris has raised $540 million in little more than a month since she began her race for US president, with a surge of donations flowing in during the Democratic National Convention last week, her campaign said yesterday.
25 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Yemen Houthis hail Hezbollah strikes
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels praised attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Israel yesterday and renewed threats to launch their own assault in response to Israeli strikes on a port in Yemen.
25 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Telegram CEO arrested in France
Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after landing on a private jet late on Saturday and placed in custody, a police source said.
25 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Syrian suspect confesses to knife rampage
German police said yesterday that a Syrian man has given himself up and confessed to killing three people and wounding eight others in a knife rampage at a street festival.
25 August 2024, 18:00 PM
13 dead after migrant boat sinks off Yemen
At least 13 people have died when a migrant boat sank off Yemen, also leaving 14 missing, a UN agency said yesterday, in the latest disaster on the perilous migration route.
25 August 2024, 18:00 PM
China, Philippines clash in disputed waters
The Philippines and China clashed in disputed waters of the South China Sea yesterday over what Manila said was a resupply mission for fishermen, the latest in a series of sea and air confrontations in the strategic waterway.
25 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Reuters staff missing in Russian strike on hotel
A member of the Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine was missing and two others were hospitalised after a Russian strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk.
25 August 2024, 18:00 PM
UN ‘concerned’ by Afghanistan morality law
The UN mission in Afghanistan said yesterday it was “concerned” about a morality law recently ratified by the Taliban authorities, criticising in particular restrictions on women.
25 August 2024, 18:00 PM
China slams US for adding firms to export control list, vows action
The companies - 42 Chinese, 63 Russian and 18 from other countries - were targeted for reasons from sending US electronics to Russian military-related parties to producing thousands of Shahed-136 drones for Russia to use in its invasion of Ukraine.
25 August 2024, 05:37 AM
German stabbing suspect is 26-year-old man who admitted to the crime
The suspect in custody for a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen that killed three people and injured eight is a 26-year-old man who admitted to the crime, authorities said early on Sunday.
25 August 2024, 04:53 AM
Israel striking Lebanon to prevent 'large-scale' Hezbollah attack
Defence Minister Yoav Gallant announced a 48-hour nationwide state of emergency from 06:00am (0300 GMT) Sunday, after the Israeli military launched what it called pre-emptive strikes in Lebanon.
25 August 2024, 04:25 AM
Hezbollah launches missile barrage at Israel to avenge senior commander
Expectations of an escalation between the two sides had risen since a missile strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights last month killed 12 youngsters and the Israeli military assassinated a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut in response.
25 August 2024, 04:24 AM
Billionaire Adani's Mumbai slum revamp struggles to secure land in potential setback
The Dharavi slum, about three-quarters of the size of New York's Central Park, featured in Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning 2008 movie "Slumdog Millionaire". Its open sewers and shared toilets, close to Mumbai's international airport, stand in contrast to India's development boom.
25 August 2024, 04:18 AM
Thunberg joins protest at Norway gas plant
Protesters including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and members of Extinction Rebellion on Saturday tried to blockade of a gas and oil processing plant in southwest Norway.
24 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Sicily opens manslaughter probe as last movements of yacht victims revealed
UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, four friends and the yacht's cook died when the British-flagged Bayesian sank in a storm before dawn on Monday.
24 August 2024, 11:27 AM
Zelensky vows more 'retribution' for Russia in independence address
Kyiv celebrates independence from the Soviet Union as the long war with Russia has reached a dramatic moment, with Ukraine mounting the Kursk incursion and Moscow eyeing more east Ukrainian towns.
24 August 2024, 10:23 AM
Why mpox vaccines are only just arriving in Africa after two years
Mpox is a potentially deadly infection that causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions and spreads through close physical contact.
24 August 2024, 10:18 AM
Pakistani singles defy tradition, search for spouses in person
Despite criticism online in the past for the app, the Muzz event was attended by about 100 people.
24 August 2024, 06:44 AM
NASA to decide Saturday on return of stranded astronauts
A decision-making committee, with NASA chief Bill Nelson sitting in, will meet Saturday to weigh the tough issue.
24 August 2024, 06:35 AM
Protesters' mass arrests leave Venezuelans in fear
Ocariz is one of 2,400 people detained since Nicolas Maduro's disputed reelection in Venezuela.
24 August 2024, 06:32 AM