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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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India poised to sharply cut Russian oil purchases after sanctions, sources say
23 October 2025, 06:50 AM
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Chandigarh mayoral polls: Test for Congress-AAP ahead of nat’l polls
The Congress-Aam Aadmi Party alliance in Punjab faces its first test tomorrow as it goes to the Chandigarh mayoral election in a bid to unseat the BJP from key posts in the state
17 January 2024, 17:23 PM
Women's health gap costs $1 trillion worldwide: report
The huge gap between how women and men's health are treated costs $1 trillion a year worldwide, the World Economic Forum said on Wednesday
17 January 2024, 05:38 AM
Trump attends rape defamation case in New York
In court, the former US president did not make any statements, and he and Carroll avoided looking at each other while jurors were being selected, according to reporters allowed inside the courtroom.
17 January 2024, 04:43 AM
China's population decline accelerates in 2023
Last year's decline was more than double the fall reported for 2022, when the country lost 850,000 people as its population shrank for the first time since 1960.
17 January 2024, 04:27 AM
Millions of Afghans go hungry as winter cold bites
Thousands of people are still sleeping in tents in Herat province after successive earthquakes in October destroyed or rendered uninhabitable 31,000 homes.
17 January 2024, 04:23 AM
US primaries as good as 'over,' Trump voters crow
"I expect a landslide," says Loribeth Calderwood, one of the hundreds braving the snow and the cold to make their way to a Tuesday night rally in the small town of Atkinson.
17 January 2024, 04:19 AM
Macron seeks to revive presidency with vow for 'stronger' France
With over three years of his second and final term to run, Macron has been on the back foot in recent weeks after a series of crises and a growing challenge from the far right.
17 January 2024, 04:09 AM
Israel pounds Gaza as fears grow of widening war
Fears of a regional escalation have spiked, with Iran and its proxies stepping up attacks across the region in solidarity with Hamas.
17 January 2024, 04:03 AM
Covid jabs saved 1.4m lives in Europe: WHO
At least 1.4 million lives have been saved in Europe thanks to Covid vaccines, the World Health Organization said yesterday, recalling that the virus was “here to stay”.
16 January 2024, 18:00 PM
OpenAI to launch anti-disinfo tools for 2024 polls
ChatGPT maker OpenAI has said it will introduce tools to combat disinformation ahead of the dozens of elections this year in countries that are home to half the world’s population.
16 January 2024, 18:00 PM
‘We’re going to die from the cold’
In a makeshift tent of cloth and plastic, Ismail Nabhan huddled by a fire with his children and grandchildren as his family, displaced by Israeli offensive in Gaza, struggled to stay warm.
16 January 2024, 18:00 PM
Kyrgyzstan detains 10 journos in raids
Kyrgyzstan detained at least 10 journalists linked to four different news outlets yesterday, the former Soviet republic’s second day of raids targeting independent media.
16 January 2024, 18:00 PM
Korean Air plane ‘strikes’ Cathay aircraft in Japan
A Korean Air airliner “struck” an empty Cathay Pacific plane while taxiing at a snow-hit Japanese airport yesterday, with both airlines saying there were no injuries.
16 January 2024, 18:00 PM
Global tobacco use tumbles despite industry lobbying: WHO
Global tobacco use has tumbled in a generation with one in five people smoking versus one in three in 2000, the World Health Organization said today
16 January 2024, 10:21 AM
Biden says Iowa win makes Trump Republicans' 'clear front runner'
"Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He's the clear front runner on the other side at this point," Biden said on X, formerly Twitter.
16 January 2024, 04:49 AM
Indian air traffic disrupted on third day of dense fog
As many as 128 flights from the international airport in New Delhi, the capital, were delayed, with 33 cancelled, aviation site Flightradar24 showed, an effect that cascaded through flight schedules nationwide.
16 January 2024, 04:38 AM
Entrepreneur Ramaswamy drops out of White House race, endorses Trump
Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old born in Ohio to immigrant parents from southern India, was one of the surprises of the 2024 Republican race dominated by former President Trump.
16 January 2024, 04:33 AM
Jailed Iranian Nobel winner hit with new sentence: family
The Revolutionary Court sentenced Mohammadi to 15 months in prison after a trial that she boycotted, her family added in their statement.
16 January 2024, 04:28 AM
Trump passes major US election test with win in Iowa
Donald Trump swept to victory Monday in Iowa's caucuses -- the first vote in the US presidential race -- cementing his status as the presumptive Republican standard-bearer to challenge President Joe Biden in November's election
16 January 2024, 03:03 AM
Five richest men doubled fortunes since 2020
The world’s wealthiest five men have more than doubled their fortune since 2020, the charity Oxfam said yesterday, calling on nations to resist the ultra-rich’s influence over tax policy.
15 January 2024, 18:00 PM