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23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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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
23 October 2025, 17:44 PM
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23 October 2025, 07:34 AM
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23 October 2025, 06:50 AM
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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
China lunar probe returns to Earth with samples
A Chinese probe carrying samples from the far side of the Moon returned to Earth today, capping a technically complex 53-day mission heralded as a world first
25 June 2024, 09:44 AM
Julian Assange to be freed after pleading guilty to US Espionage Act charge
Assange, 52, has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence document
24 June 2024, 23:45 PM
Party ‘ready’ to govern
French far-right leader Jordan Bardella said yesterday his party was ready to govern as he pledged to curb immigration and tackle cost-of-living issues ahead of the country’s most divisive election in decades.
24 June 2024, 18:00 PM
First junta conscripts to begin duty at end of month
A first batch of 5,000 conscripts called up by Myanmar’s junta will begin duty at the end of this month, military sources told AFP yesterday, as the generals struggle to crush opposition to their coup.
24 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Blaze in South Korea battery plant kills 22 workers
Twenty-two people were killed in a massive fire at a South Korean lithium battery plant yesterday, most of them Chinese nationals, in one of the country’s worst factory disasters in years.
24 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Cyberattacker hits Indonesia data centre
A cyberattack on Indonesia’s national data centre compromised hundreds of government offices and caused long delays at the capital’s main airport, with the hacker demanding an $8 million ransom, officials said yesterday.
24 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Autocracy is ‘evil’
Democracy is not a crime and autocracy is the real “evil”, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said yesterday after China threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for “diehard” Taiwan independence separatists.
24 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Modi appeals to opposition for ‘consensus’
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday appealed to an emboldened opposition for “consensus”, as parliament opened following an election setback that forced him into a coalition government for the first time in a decade.
24 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Israel’s offensive shatters Palestinian pupils’ dream
Teenagers across the Gaza Strip should have been taking their final exams this month, a last hurdle before university and lifelong dreams, but the Israeli offensive in the Palestinian territory has crushed those hopes.
24 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Russia warns US after Ukraine strikes Crimea
The Kremlin yesterday directly blamed the United States for an attack on Crimea with US-supplied ATACMS missiles that killed at least four people and injured 151, and Moscow formally warned the US ambassador that retaliation would follow.
24 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Help us resolve Rohingya crisis
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday sought Chinese support to solve the Rohingya crisis quickly.
24 June 2024, 18:00 PM
US prosecutors recommend Justice Department criminally charge Boeing
US prosecutors are recommending to senior Justice Department officials that criminal charges be brought against Boeing after finding the planemaker violated a settlement related to two fatal crashes, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters
24 June 2024, 10:58 AM
Russia summons US ambassador over Ukrainian strike on Crimea
Russia today summoned the US ambassador to the foreign ministry over what it said was Washington's "responsibility" for a Ukrainian strike on Crimea that killed four people, including two children
24 June 2024, 10:08 AM
South Korea, US, Japan voice concern over Putin's visit to North Korea, military ties
Senior officials of South Korea, the United States and Japan condemned "in the strongest possible terms" deepening military cooperation between North Korea and Russia, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent visit to Pyongyang triggered grave concern, a joint statement released by Seoul's foreign ministry said on Monday
24 June 2024, 04:45 AM
Saudi says 1,301 deaths during hajj, mostly unregistered pilgrims
Saudi Arabia said Sunday that more than 1,300 faithful died during the hajj pilgrimage which took place during intense heat, and that most of the deceased did not have official permits
24 June 2024, 02:59 AM
Trump courts Black voters in Philadelphia
Donald Trump made two speeches on Saturday, urging Christian supporters to go to the polls for him one last time and courting Black voters in Philadelphia by promising to fix a city “ravaged by bloodshed” even as data shows a decline in violent crime.
23 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Food piles up at Gaza crossing in south
Days after Israel announced a daily pause in fighting on a key route to allow more aid into Gaza, chaos in the besieged Palestinian territory has left vital supplies piled up and undistributed in the searing summer heat.
23 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Philippines won’t be intimidated
President Ferdinand Marcos said yesterday the Philippines “will not be intimidated” by anyone after a violent clash between the Filipino navy and the Chinese coast guard in the South China Sea.
23 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshi-origin minorities voted for Congress
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has claimed that the Bangladeshi-origin minority community members “overwhelmingly” voted for the Congress in the just concluded Lok Sabha elections, without considering the “developmental work done for them by the BJP-led governments at the Centre and in the state.”
23 June 2024, 18:00 PM