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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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India issues first set of citizenship certificates to 14
India yesterday granted citizenship to a first batch of 14 people under a controversial law that has been criticised for discriminating against Muslims, midway through general elections in which religious divisions have taken centre stage.
15 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Slovakia PM shot, fighting 'life-threatening' injuries
Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico was on Wednesday shot multiple times and rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a cabinet meeting, officials said, in an attack condemned by EU chiefs.
15 May 2024, 14:40 PM
Iran port deal: India downplays US sanctions threat
India's foreign minister has said his company will work to communicate the benefits of a strategic port project in Iran after the United States said Indian firms working on the project risked sanctions
15 May 2024, 06:47 AM
Blinken, guitar in hand, tells Ukraine to keep 'rockin' in the free world'
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on May 14 picked up a red guitar at a basement bar in Kyiv with a message for Ukraine - that the US and much of the world was fighting not just for Ukraine but for the free world
15 May 2024, 03:30 AM
Seed-dropping drones seek to halt Kosovo’s deforestation
A hovering drone drops linden and pine seeds wrapped in soil onto a barren hillside outside Kosovo’s capital Pristina, part of an effort to reforest thousands of hectares lost to illegal logging and wildfires.
14 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Putin to visit China on May 16-17 to deepen ties with Xi Jinping
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China on May 16-17, the Kremlin said yesterday, using the first foreign trip of his new six-year term to underscore the deepening partnership with China’s Xi Jinping.
14 May 2024, 18:00 PM
US military aid ‘on its way’
American military aid for Ukraine is “on its way”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Kyiv yesterday, as Russia pressed on with a new offensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
14 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Recruits march to training as junta presses conscription
Myanmar’s embattled junta is pressing ahead with military conscription, state media said yesterday, with video footage showing new recruits being marched to training centres across the country.
14 May 2024, 18:00 PM
AAP will be made accused in liquor policy case: ED
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will be made an accused in the alleged liquor policy scam, which has seen three of its key leaders - including party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal - land behind bars, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has informed the Delhi High Court.
14 May 2024, 18:00 PM
US warns of ‘potential risk of sanctions’
Any country having business dealings with Iran runs the risk of sanctions, the United States has said, noting that it is aware that Iran and India have signed a deal concerning the Chabahar port.
14 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Nobel laureate Alice Munro passes away
Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro, whose exquisitely crafted tales of the loves, ambitions and travails of small-town women in her native land made her a globally acclaimed master of the short story, died on Monday at the age of 92, the Globe and Mail newspaper said yesterday.
14 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Taboo to brew: conservative Gulf gets first local beer
Alcohol sales are heavily restricted in Oman and Qatar and are outright banned in Kuwait, and in Sharjah, one of the UAE's seven emirates and a neighbour to cosmopolitan Dubai.
14 May 2024, 04:35 AM
Record 76m internally displaced worldwide, says monitor
Conflict in Sudan and Gaza pushed the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) worldwide to a record 75.9 million at the end of 2023, an NGO monitor said Tuesday
14 May 2024, 04:22 AM
Survivors hunt for the missing
Survivors of flash floods in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province were still searching for the missing yesterday, days after torrents of water ripped through villages, killing hundreds.
13 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Hezbollah claims strikes that hurt Israeli soldiers
Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group yesterday claimed responsibility for a strike that Israel said wounded four soldiers in the country’s north, the latest cross-border fire in more than seven months of clashes.
13 May 2024, 18:00 PM
‘We will make Pakistan wear bangles’
Mincing no words, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday attacked the opposition INDIA bloc, calling its leaders “cowards” who were “scared of Pakistan’s nuclear power”.
13 May 2024, 18:00 PM
1,000 Hamas members hospitalised in Turkey
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that more than 1,000 members of the Palestinian group Hamas were being treated in hospitals across Turkey, reiterating his stance that Hamas was a “resistance movement”.
13 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Vladimir Putin taps economist to run defence
Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defence minister on Sunday in an attempt to gird Russia for economic war by trying to better utilise the defence budget and harness greater innovation to win in Ukraine.
13 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Protesters occupy univ buildings in Dutch cities
Pro-Palestinian protesters yesterday occupied university buildings in the Dutch cities of Amsterdam, Groningen and Eindhoven, condemning Israel’s offensive in Gaza, the Dutch protest group behind the action said in a statement.
13 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Gaza officials warn health system 'hours from collapse' due to fuel shortage
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Monday that the besieged Palestinian territory's health system is "hours away" from collapse, after fighting has blocked fuel shipments through key crossings
13 May 2024, 09:10 AM