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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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Gunmen kill Pak militia chief, 5 others
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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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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Prominent Indians flocking to Modi’s party
A billionaire industrialist and a former Indian Air Force chief on Sunday became the latest prominent figures, including a judge and an ambassador, to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party in recent weeks as it seeks to widen its lead over the opposition.
25 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Polls may not be held nationwide
Myanmar may not be able to hold its next election nationwide, the country’s junta chief admitted in comments published yesterday, as the military struggles to contain escalating violence against its rule.
25 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Barred from North Gaza aid deliveries: UNRWA
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has said that Israel had definitively barred it from making aid deliveries in northern Gaza, where the threat of famine is highest.
25 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Thai scientists breed coral in labs to restore degraded reefs
On a starry night, four Thai marine biologists scuba dived through shallow waters off an island in the country’s south as billions of pink specks floated up from the ocean floor in a spectacle that takes place only once a year.
25 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Teen saves over 100 people in deadly Moscow terror attack
A 15-year-old boy is being credited with saving over 100 people he led away from the terrorist massacre at a Moscow concert hall on Friday
25 March 2024, 16:12 PM
Russia casts doubt on Islamic State responsibility for concert attack
Russia today challenged assertions by the United States that the Islamic State militant group orchestrated a gun attack on a concert hall outside Moscow that killed 137 people and injured 182 more, accusing Washington of covering for Ukraine
25 March 2024, 10:34 AM
Four Moscow attack suspects charged with terrorism
Four men accused of involvement in the Moscow concert hall attack that killed at least 137 people were charged with terrorism Sunday and ordered to be detained pending trial
25 March 2024, 02:41 AM
3 soldiers hurt by China water cannon
Three Philippine troops were injured in the latest China Coast Guard water cannon attack on a Filipino supply vessel near a South China Sea reef, Manila’s national security adviser said yesterday.
24 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Gunmen attack police station in Armenian capital
Three armed men yesterday tried to attack a police station in the Nor-Nork district of Yerevan, the Armenian capital, Armenia’s interior ministry said. According to preliminary information, two of the three men had been wounded as result of hand grenades they were carrying detonating, it said.
24 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Big gaps exist with Israel in truce talks: Hamas
Deep differences exist between Hamas and Israel in negotiations for a Gaza truce, an official from the Palestinian group with knowledge of the talks said.
24 March 2024, 18:00 PM
China-owned tanker hit by Houthi missile
A Chinese-owned oil tanker was attacked off Yemen Saturday by ballistic missiles fired by Houthi rebels, who have intensified strikes on Red Sea shipping, the US military said.
24 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Brazil storms kill at least 20
Rescuers in boats and aircraft raced against the clock yesterday to help isolated people in Brazil’s mountainous southeast after storms and heavy rains killed at least 20 people.
24 March 2024, 18:00 PM
130 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren released
More than 130 schoolchildren seized by gunmen in a mass kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria earlier this month were released unharmed yesterday, officials and the army said.
24 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Solve water, sewer issues
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal issued his first directive regarding water and sewer issues in certain parts of the India capital while being in ED custody.
24 March 2024, 18:00 PM
150 families risk their lives to feed each other
Sameh Makki’s soup kitchen is barely 100 metres from the market, but it can take two hours to make the journey through Sudan’s war-torn streets, often through hails of bullets.
24 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Two Russian ships hit in Crimea strikes: Kyiv
The Ukrainian military said it hit two large Russian landing ships in attacks on the annexed Crimean peninsula early yesterday, as well as a communications centre and other infrastructure used by the Russian navy in the Black Sea.
24 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Russian accounts of Moscow attack a ‘smokescreen’: UK
British Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt yesterday said that the UK had “very little confidence” in Russia’s statements on the Moscow concert hall attack, accusing it of trying to “defend” it’s assault on Ukraine.
24 March 2024, 18:00 PM
IS releases new videos as Russia blames Ukraine
Amid confusion over who carried out the attack on the Crocus City concert hall outside Moscow, Islamic State yesterday released new videos of the attack claiming responsibility
24 March 2024, 17:43 PM
Hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian school students released
The more than 250 school students seized by gunmen in a mass kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria earlier this month have been released, the local governor said today
24 March 2024, 06:53 AM
World leaders condemn Russian concert hall attack
World leaders denounced a deadly attack by gunmen on a Moscow concert hall that killed more than 130 people and wounded dozens more
24 March 2024, 02:58 AM