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27 Syrian migrants rescued in Lebanon
The Lebanese military yesterday rescued 27 Syrian migrants from drowning after their rubber boat capsized off the country’s northern coast, the armed forces said.
23 September 2023, 18:00 PM
6 killed in Taiwan golf ball factory fire
A fire at a golf ball factory in Taiwan killed at least six people, three of them firefighters who died in an explosion, authorities said yesterday.
23 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Sunak may ban cigarettes in UK
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is considering introducing measures that would ban the next generation from ever being able to buy cigarettes, The Guardian reported on Friday, citing government sources.
23 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Thailand’s opposition party names new leader
Thailand’s opposition Move Forward named a new leader yesterday after Pita Limjaroenrat, who led the party to a stunning election victory in May, was thwarted in his efforts to become premier.
23 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Recycling plastic not enough
With the production of plastic on the rise worldwide and creating ever more pollution, the UN environment chief warned that humanity cannot just recycle its way out of the mess, and she called for a total rethink about the way we use plastics.
23 September 2023, 18:00 PM
India hits back after Pak PM raises J&K issue
India reiterated that matters pertaining to Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are “purely internal” and Pakistan cannot comment on its domestic matters.
23 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Gunmen kidnap dozens of Nigerian university students
Gunmen have kidnapped more than 30 people, including at least 24 female students, in a raid in and around a university in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state, residents said yesterday.
23 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Suicide bomber kills 13 in Somalia
Thirteen people were killed and 20 others wounded in central Somalia yesterday after a suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives towards a security checkpoint in the town of Beledweyne, police said.
23 September 2023, 18:00 PM
US, S Korea, Japan concerned
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and South Korean, Japanese counterparts expressed “serious concern” over the discussion of military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, including possible arms trade, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said today.
23 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Magnitude 4.8 quake rattles Myanmar’s Yangon
A shallow 4.8-magnitude earthquake rattled Myanmar’s commercial hub Yangon yesterday, the United States Geological Survey and AFP correspondents said, with no immediate reports of damage.
23 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Azerbaijan seizes arms from rebels
Azerbaijan forces tightened their grip on the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday as international concern mounted over the plight of ethnic Armenian civilians trapped there.
23 September 2023, 18:00 PM
How India’s new reservation bill will impact women
Indian lawmakers approved a landmark bill on Thursday to ensure one-third reservation for women in lower house of the parliament and in state legislatures, in a step forward to attain gender parity among lawmakers.
23 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Pope urges Europe to not treat migrants as invaders
Pope Francis yesterday urged European governments to welcome migrants instead of viewing them as invaders, striding into in a hugely sensitive political debate again inflamed by mass arrivals on the second day of his visit to France’s Mediterranean port of Marseille.
23 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Recycling plastic not enough
Warns UN environment chief
23 September 2023, 12:53 PM
Delhi: where cultures converged and empires rose
In the intricate web of Indian history, the Sultani period emerges as a momentous chapter which brought together different cultures, paving the way for artistic, linguistic, social, and administrative exchanges, which stands as a testament to dialogue between civilisations..Muslim rulers o
23 September 2023, 06:42 AM
US says it expects India to work with Canada on murder case
The United States made clear on Friday that it expected the Indian government to work with Canada on efforts to investigate the possible involvement of New Delhi agents in the murder of a Canadian citizen in June
23 September 2023, 02:45 AM
Azerbaijan troops on the edge of Karabakh stronghold
Azerbaijani troops are on the edge of Nagorno-Karabakh’s separatist stronghold of Stepanakert, prompting residents to hide in basements in fear, a rebel envoy told AFP yesterday.
22 September 2023, 18:00 PM
China’s recent military movements ‘abnormal’
Recent Chinese military movements around Taiwan were “abnormal”, the island’s defence minister said yesterday, flagging amphibious exercises in addition to drills Taipei has observed in the province facing the island.
22 September 2023, 18:00 PM
US revives Cold War submarine spy programme to counter China
On a windswept island 50 miles north of Seattle sits a US Navy monitoring station. For years, it was kept busy tracking whale movements and measuring rising sea temperatures.
22 September 2023, 11:49 AM
Trudeau wants India to cooperate in murder probe
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday called on India to cooperate with an investigation into the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia and said Canada would not release its evidence
22 September 2023, 04:00 AM