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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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Plane held for days in France on trafficking concerns lands in India
A plane that had been grounded in France for days over concerns its roughly 300 mostly Indian passengers were part of a human trafficking scheme landed in Mumbai early Tuesday, flight tracking data showed
26 December 2023, 03:18 AM
Attacks kill at least 113 people in central Nigeria
More than a hundred people have been killed in central Nigeria in a series of attacks on villages, local government officials said Monday
25 December 2023, 19:07 PM
Iran Guards say Israeli strike kills senior general in Syria
A senior general with Iran's Revolutionary Guards was killed Monday by an Israeli strike in Syria, the military force said, with Tehran vowing to make Israel “pay for this crime”
25 December 2023, 18:49 PM
Iran denies US claim it targeted tanker near India
Iran denied on Monday a US claim that a drone launched from Iran had struck a chemical tanker in the Indian ocean
25 December 2023, 09:25 AM
UN calls for rescue of 185 Rohingyas adrift in Indian Ocean
The United Nations has called for the urgent rescue of 185 people, mainly women and children, on a distressed boat last heard to be near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean.
24 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Tunisians vote for new chamber with little enthusiasm
Tunisians trickled into polling stations yesterday in the first local elections for a second chamber of parliament under a constitution pushed through last year by President Kais Saied.
24 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says war death toll hits 20,424
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Sunday that at least 20,424 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Israel
24 December 2023, 12:27 PM
Netanyahu says Gaza war exacting 'heavy price' on Israel army
Tel Aviv AFP Dec 24, 2023.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the Gaza war was exacting a “very heavy price” as the toll of soldiers killed in fighting with Hamas mounted..“This is a difficult morning, after a very difficult day of fighting in Gaza,” he said a
24 December 2023, 12:09 PM
Tanker ship off India hit by drone 'fired from Iran': Pentagon
A Japanese-owned chemical tanker struck Saturday off the coast of India was targeted by a drone "fired from Iran," the Pentagon said, a sign of expanding risks to commercial shipping beyond the Red Sea
24 December 2023, 04:24 AM
Artists use tech weapons against AI copycats
US illustrator Paloma McClain went into defense mode after learning that several AI models had been "trained" using her art, with no credit or compensation sent her way.
24 December 2023, 04:22 AM
US woman with rare double uterus gives birth to twin girls
A 32-year-old woman from Alabama who was born with two uteruses and became pregnant in both gave birth to twin girls on different days, she announced on Friday
23 December 2023, 09:06 AM
Japan eases arms export controls allowing weapons sales to US
Japan loosened arms export controls Friday, for the first time in nearly a decade, a move that would enable the US ally to sell domestically made Patriot missile defence systems to Washington
22 December 2023, 12:56 PM
Tensions rise between Sudan army and United Arab Emirates
For months, Sudan's army kept silent amid alleged Emirati interference in the country's civil war, but its anger has finally boiled over, leading to harsh exchanges between Khartoum and Abu Dhabi.
22 December 2023, 04:35 AM
Second North Korean nuclear reactor appears to be operational: IAEA
A new reactor at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex appears to be operating for the first time, the UN nuclear watchdog and independent experts said on Thursday, which would mean an additional potential source of plutonium for nuclear weapons.
22 December 2023, 04:02 AM
Bangladeshi arrested in Malaysia over fake work permit renewal syndicate
For months, a young Bangladeshi national has been taking in huge profits by operating a fake work permit renewal syndicate in Malaysia that targeted foreign workers
21 December 2023, 06:47 AM
China warns Philippines to 'act with caution' after maritime clashes
China has warned the Philippines that it "must act with caution", Beijing's foreign ministry said, following a string of incidents in the disputed South China Sea as Manila increasingly stands up to Chinese assertiveness in the region.
21 December 2023, 05:49 AM
Volcano erupts in southwest Iceland after weeks of earthquakes
A volcano in Iceland was still erupting Tuesday hours after geysers of molten lava shot into the night sky after weeks of intense seismic activity southwest of Reykjavik
19 December 2023, 09:07 AM
The feline frontier: Nasa sends cat video from deep space
Nasa on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away from Earth -- to send a high-definition cat video
19 December 2023, 04:04 AM
At least 118 dead in northwest China earthquake
Rescuers in remote villages of northwest China dug through the rubble of collapsed homes on Tuesday after China's deadliest earthquake in years killed at least 118 people and injured hundreds more
19 December 2023, 02:11 AM
Thai farmer makes art with plantings that depict cats
A sleeping cat hugs a fish in a picture seen from the air, picked out in sprouting rainbow seedlings in a rice field in Thailand to illustrate a traditional proverb about abundance.
18 December 2023, 18:00 PM