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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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Ukraine now opening ‘2nd front’ in Africa: Russia
Russia said yesterday that Ukraine is now opening a “second front” in Africa after Mali and Niger broke off diplomatic relations with Kyiv, accusing it of support for “terrorist groups”.
7 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Lanka’s Rajapaksa scion enters race
Sri Lanka’s ruling party nominated a scion of the controversial Rajapaksa family yesterday to challenge the incumbent president in next month’s polls, the first since the country’s unprecedented economic meltdown.
7 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Gaza prisoners subject to systematic abuse
Israel has conducted a systematic policy of prisoner abuse and torture since the start of the Gaza offensive, subjecting Palestinian detainees to acts ranging from arbitrary violence to sexual abuse, Israeli rights group B’Tselem said in a report.
7 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Russian military blogger jailed
A Russian military blogger who criticised Moscow’s conduct in the Ukraine conflict was sentenced to six-and-a-half years’ jail for spreading “fakes” about the army, Moscow’s court service said yesterday.
7 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Harris draws more support among Black voters
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is drawing more support from Black voters than President Joe Biden did when he was in the race this year, while Republican Donald Trump’s support among white voters has risen somewhat in recent months, according to an analysis of Reuters/Ipsos polling.
7 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Thai court bans popular politician
Thailand’s most popular politician was banned from politics for 10 years and his party dissolved yesterday over his attempt to reform the kingdom’s archaic royal defamation laws.
7 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Opposition leader defies court summons
Venezuela’s opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia said yesterday that he will not attend a Supreme Court hearing on the disputed re-election of President Nicolas Maduro.
7 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Harris, Walz debut White House ticket
Kamala Harris made her debut Tuesday evening with new White House running mate Tim Walz, who unleashed a stinging rebuke of their Republican rival Donald Trump, questioning his commitment to the country and skewering his record in office.
7 August 2024, 18:00 PM
UK braces for more riots
Thousands of riot police stood ready yesterday as Britain remained on alert for disturbances during far-right protests across the country.
7 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Ukraine pierces Russian border
Russia was battling a major cross-border incursion from Ukraine for a second day yesterday, with authorities evacuating several thousand civilians due to fighting, officials said.
7 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Helicopter crashes in Nepali forest
A helicopter crashed in a forest outside Nepal’s capital Kathmandu shortly after takeoff yesterday, killing all five people on board, an official said, the latest of more than a dozen air crashes in the mountainous region since 2000.
7 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Russia targets Kyiv with missile strikes
A Russian missile attack on the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine damaged a medical clinic and injured at least five people yesterday, the governor of the Kharkiv region said.
6 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Google has an illegal monopoly on search
A US judge ruled on Monday that Google violated antitrust law, spending billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly and become the world’s default search engine, the first big win for federal authorities taking on Big Tech’s market dominance.
6 August 2024, 18:00 PM
No end to UK protests
The British government has increased its prison capacity to help tackle violent, week-long anti-immigrant riots that have prompted a growing number of countries to warn their citizens about the dangers of travelling in Britain.
6 August 2024, 18:00 PM
75 migrants rescued off Greece
The Greek coastguard yesterday said it had rescued 75 migrants in an area where one of the Mediterranean’s worst migrant shipwrecks occurred last year.
6 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Harris picks Walz as her running mate
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate yesterday, choosing a progressive policy champion and a plain speaker from America’s heartland to help win over rural, white voters, according to sources familiar with the matter.
6 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Haniyeh’s killing aims to prolong Gaza offensive
The killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was intended to prolong the Gaza conflict, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Russia’s state news agency, adding that he will discuss the regional crisis with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
6 August 2024, 18:00 PM
6,000 police at the ready to quell UK riots: govt
There has been a week of nightly riots in various cities since three children were killed in a mass stabbing.
6 August 2024, 13:30 PM
Kamala Harris picks Tim Walz for vice president
Walz, a 60-year-old US Army National Guard veteran and former teacher, was elected to a Republican-leaning district in the US House of Representatives in 2006 and served 12 years before being elected governor of Minnesota in 2018.
6 August 2024, 13:04 PM
Myanmar military says it withdrew 'for safety of people'
Shan State in eastern Myanmar has been rocked by fighting since late June when the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) renewed an offensive against the military along a major trade highway to China.
6 August 2024, 07:51 AM