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23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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No reduction in Gaza hunger since truce: WHO
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23 October 2025, 07:34 AM
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23 October 2025, 06:50 AM
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Hospital doctors in England launch new strike ahead of election
It follows nearly a dozen similar actions by doctors below specialist, consultant level over the last 18 months.
27 June 2024, 09:52 AM
A right-wing populist party is about to shake up the UK election
Following UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's decision to call for a snap election in early July, polls have been predicting an end to the Conservative Party's 14-year hold of the government.
27 June 2024, 06:47 AM
Bolivian army chief arrested after coup attempt
Bolivia's army chief was arrested Wednesday after sending soldiers and tanks to take up position in front of government buildings in what President Luis Arce called an attempted coup
27 June 2024, 02:31 AM
Who is Bolivia's President Luis Arce? Former economist survives coup attempt
Former allies and colleagues, Arce and Morales have since become political rivals. Both are eyeing a presidential run in an election next year, and each leads a faction of the dominant Movement to Socialism (MAS) political party.
27 June 2024, 02:17 AM
Brazilian owns world’s largest jersey collection
Brazilian Cassio Brandao walks through rooms filled with clothes racks that in April made him a Guinness World Records title holder as the owner of the world’s largest collection of football jerseys.
26 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Heavy rains in Nepal kill 20 amid landslides
Heavy rainfall triggered landslides and flash floods in Nepal, killing at least 11 people, with another nine killed by lightning strikes over the past two days, officials said yesterday.
26 June 2024, 18:00 PM
President backs down on tax rises
Kenya’s president yesterday withdrew planned tax rises, bowing to pressure from protesters who had stormed parliament, launched demonstrations across the country and threatened more action this week.
26 June 2024, 18:00 PM
US seeks deeper ties with Maldives
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with his counterpart from the Maldives on Tuesday and said Washington sought a deeper partnership with the Indian Ocean island state and stood with it in ensuring a free-and-open Indo-Pacific region and in dealing with climate change.
26 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Russia starts trial for WSJ reporter
A shaven-headed Evan Gershkovich went on trial behind closed doors yesterday in a Russian court where the US journalist is facing accusations of espionage.
26 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Trump policies will fuel inflation
Sixteen Nobel prize-winning economists signed a letter on Tuesday warning that the US and world economy will suffer if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins the US presidential election in November.
26 June 2024, 18:00 PM
‘There are no safe centimetres left in Gaza’
A UN humanitarian worker described the suffering she witnessed first-hand in Gaza, where she saw children mutilated and families bombed out of their homes, in an emotional testimony Tuesday.
26 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Sudan warring sides using starvation as weapon: UN experts
Both sides in Sudan's brutal civil war are using starvation as a weapon of war, UN experts said Wednesday, charging that foreign governments providing them military support were "complicit" in war crimes
26 June 2024, 14:46 PM
WikiLeaks founder Assange returns home a free man
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned home to Australia to start life as a free man today after admitting he revealed US defence secrets in a deal that unlocked the door to his London prison cell
26 June 2024, 11:36 AM
NATO names Dutch PM Rutte as next boss
NATO's 32 nations today appointed outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the alliance's next head, handing him the job at a crucial moment with Russia on the march in Ukraine and US elections looming
26 June 2024, 11:32 AM
'Shaken to the core': Kenya shocked as protests turn deadly
The mainly youth-led rallies began mostly peacefully last week, with thousands of demonstrators marching in the capital Nairobi and across the country against the tax increases.
26 June 2024, 05:01 AM
UK Conservatives drop support for candidates
Britain’s Conservative Party said yesterday it had withdrawn support from two parliamentary candidates who are being investigated over alleged bets placed on the timing of next month’s national election.
25 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Moscow to block access to 81 EU media outlets
Russia said that yesterday it would block access to 81 EU media outlets, including AFP’s websites, as a “retaliatory measure” after Brussels imposed broadcasting bans on several Russian state media outlets.
25 June 2024, 18:00 PM
High risk of famine persists across Gaza
A high risk of famine persists across the whole of the Gaza Strip as long as Israeli offensive in the Palestinian enclave continues and humanitarian access is restricted, according to an assessment by a global hunger monitor.
25 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Ethnic armed groups battle junta in west, north
Myanmar ethnic armed groups seized a popular beach resort town in the west of the country and launched dawn attacks on junta positions in the north, a military source and residents told AFP yesterday.
25 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Int’l probe highlights ‘attack on press freedom’
A collaborative investigation by international media outlets yesterday shed light on the circumstances behind more than 100 Palestinian journalists and media workers being killed in the Gaza offensive, some while wearing a press vest.
25 June 2024, 18:00 PM