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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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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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Singapore money laundering: Assets frozen exceed $3b
The assets seized in Singapore's largest money laundering case that saw 10 foreigners arrested are now worth more than $3 billion
20 January 2024, 05:45 AM
13 dead in China school fire: state media
Thirteen people have died in a school dormitory fire in central China's Henan province, the official Xinhua news agency reported Saturday
20 January 2024, 03:13 AM
US ship hit in Gulf of Aden attack
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed another attack on a US ship early yesterday, after the United States launched fresh strikes on rebel targets over their aggression towards vessels in and around the Red Sea.
19 January 2024, 18:00 PM
Pakistan, Iran eye to dial down tensions
Pak FM talks to his Iranian counterpart, says Islamabad wants to build trust; Pakistan’s civil, military leaders meet to review security
19 January 2024, 14:47 PM
Pakistan's civil, military leaders to review Iran standoff
Pakistan's top civilian and military leaders will carry out a security review today on the standoff with Iran, the information minister said, after the neighbours carried out drone and missile strikes on militant bases in each other's territory
19 January 2024, 09:42 AM
UN, US call for calm after Iran, Pakistan trade strikes
The United Nations and the United States appealed for restraint on Thursday after Iran and Pakistan traded deadly air strikes on militant targets on each other's territory..The rare military action across the porous border between the heavily armed neighbours has further stoked tensions al
19 January 2024, 04:53 AM
NKorea says tested 'underwater nuclear weapon system'
North Korea said today that it had tested an "underwater nuclear weapon system" in response to joint naval exercises by Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo that involved a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
19 January 2024, 03:21 AM
Thousands of Indian workers seek jobs in Israel
Thousands of men queued in India’s northern state of Harayana during a recruitment drive to send workers to Israel, where the offensive in Gaza, now in its fourth month, has caused a shortage of labour.
18 January 2024, 18:00 PM
Greenland lost more ice than previously thought
Climate change has caused Greenland’s ice sheet to lose 20 percent more ice than previously thought, according to research published Wednesday that used satellite imagery to track the retreat of glaciers over the past four decades.
18 January 2024, 18:00 PM
Gaza hospitals in ‘rapid deterioration’
A World Health Organization official on Wednesday described dire conditions in the Gaza Strip’s remaining hospitals, where patients are “waiting to die” due to extreme shortages of staff and supplies.
18 January 2024, 18:00 PM
Anymore ‘misadventure’ from Iran will be met forcefully: Pakistan security source
Pakistan's military is on "extremely" high alert and anymore "misadventure" from the Iranian side will be met forcefully, a top Pakistani security source said today, amid escalating tensions between the neighbours
18 January 2024, 08:54 AM
9 dead in Pakistan strikes on Iran
The death toll from Pakistan strikes on a border region in Iran's southeast rose to nine, state media reported on Thursday, up from seven earlier
18 January 2024, 08:34 AM
China 'willing to mediate' between Pakistan and Iran
Beijing said today it was willing to mediate between Pakistan and Iran following an exchange of fire against militant targets in their border region, including a strike that Tehran said killed at least seven civilians.."The Chinese side sincerely hopes that the two sides can exercise calm
18 January 2024, 07:49 AM
3 women, 4 children killed in 'Pakistan strike' on Iran
The missile strike took place two days after Iran carried out strikes against "terrorist" targets in Pakistan which left at least two children dead
18 January 2024, 04:45 AM
Singapore transport minister resigns over corruption charges
Transport Minister S. Iswaran was arrested in July of 2023 and released on bail in connection with a rare top-level graft investigation in the city-state.
18 January 2024, 04:44 AM
West Bank economy in tatters as Gaza war rages
Ghazawneh says his income has plummeted from around 7,000 shekels ($1,850) per month to just 2,000 ($530).
18 January 2024, 04:32 AM
US VP Harris 'scared as heck' of Trump return
Her comments came after Trump stormed to victory on Monday in the Iowa caucuses, the first step in the Republican nomination race to challenge President Joe Biden later this year.
18 January 2024, 04:29 AM
US bans former Guatemala president from entry for 'corruption'
Giammattei has been accused of propping up the attorney general who spearheaded a judicial campaign against the country's new, anti-graft president, Bernardo Arevalo.
18 January 2024, 04:26 AM
UK's Sunak survives knife-edge vote as Rwanda bill clears Commons
Sunak, in power since October 2022, has staked his political future on the scheme, as Britain gears up for its next general election later this year.
18 January 2024, 04:20 AM
US lists Houthis as terrorists, rebels hit another US-operated ship
The US on Wednesday returned the Yemen-based Houthi rebels to a list of terrorist groups, as the militants attacked their second U.S.-operated vessel in the Red Sea region this week and the US military carried out fresh strikes
18 January 2024, 03:13 AM