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Blast at central Russian plant kills 10: governor
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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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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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4 countries reject China’s latest map
The Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam have rejected as baseless a map released by China that denotes its claims to sovereignty including in the South China Sea and which Beijing said yesterday should be viewed rationally and objectively.
31 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Death toll in South Africa building fire rises to 74
A fire that tore through a five-storey building taken over for illegal housing killed 74 people including 12 children in central Johannesburg overnight, South African authorities said Thursday
31 August 2023, 06:04 AM
Rising caffeine levels spark calls for ban on energy drink sales to children
Pediatricians and parents are calling for the US to treat new high-caffeine energy drinks like alcohol and cigarettes and ban their sale to minors as a single serving can contain as much caffeine as six Coca-Colas
31 August 2023, 05:23 AM
CNN names media veteran Mark Thompson new CEO
CNN announced Wednesday that British media veteran Mark Thompson would assume the role of its next CEO, as the news outlet struggles to reverse a ratings decline
30 August 2023, 18:23 PM
Kremlin not ruling out foul play in Prigozhin crash
The Kremlin said Wednesday that investigators were probing all possible scenarios surrounding the death last week of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash, including premeditated murder
30 August 2023, 18:18 PM
Coup in Gabon: President under house arrest
Rebel officers in Gabon today announced they had seized power following disputed elections in which President Ali Bongo Ondimba, in power since 2009, had been declared victorious
30 August 2023, 14:36 PM
Russia will not probe Prigozhin plane crash under international rules
Russia has informed Brazil's aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer (EMBR3.SA) jet that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin under international rules "at the moment", the Brazilian agency told Reuters on Tuesday
30 August 2023, 06:55 AM
Russia's Prigozhin buried quietly in hometown of St Petersburg
Overbearing in life but discreet in death, Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was buried quietly in a leafy cemetery on the outskirts of St Petersburg on Tuesday, six days after he was killed in an unexplained plane crash
30 August 2023, 06:54 AM
Suspects back in court over Singapore's swoop on major money laundering ring
Ten foreigners accused of involvement in a major money laundering operation in Singapore were set to appear in court on Wednesday, some facing new charges as the city-state seek to widen its net in one of its most high-profile crime cases
30 August 2023, 06:46 AM
Cyprus arrests 21 in anti-migrant violence
Cyprus police said yesterday they have arrested 21 people after violent clashes between Cypriots and migrants near the resort city of Paphos, where authorities have started removing Syrians from a condemned apartment complex.
29 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Live parasitic worm found in woman’s brain
A parasitic roundworm typically found in snakes has been pulled “alive and wriggling” from a woman’s brain in a stomach-churning medical first, Australian doctors said yesterday.
29 August 2023, 18:00 PM
US to counter growing size of China’s military
The Pentagon plans to field thousands of drones within the next two years to help counter China’s numerical edge in personnel and military hardware, a senior US defense official said Monday.
29 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Idalia gains hurricane force
Storm Idalia strengthened into a hurricane yesterday as forecasters predicted it would intensify and become “extremely dangerous” before making landfall in the US state of Florida.
29 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Thousands trafficked into online crime in SE Asia
Hundreds of thousands of people are being coerced in Southeast Asia by criminal gangs into carrying out online scams, often under the threat of torture, the United Nations said yesterday.
29 August 2023, 18:00 PM
UN bracing for humanitarian crisis
The United Nations warned yesterday that the political crisis in Niger and the sanctions imposed against the coup regime risk triggering “catastrophic” humanitarian effects.
29 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Indian FM dismisses China’s territorial claims
India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar dismissed China’s claims on contested territory as “absurd”, saying yesterday the areas belonged to India.
29 August 2023, 18:00 PM
West has failed to isolate Iran
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said yesterday that the West had failed to isolate his country, while also holding out the prospect of resuming talks on reviving a nuclear deal.
29 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Taiwan warns of surge in tensions
Taiwan yesterday urged China to stop “military harassment” that risked damaging regional security after it said 24 Chinese warplanes were detected near the island.
29 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Ukraine’s children losing out on education: UN
Years of disrupted schooling have left Ukrainian children struggling to learn language, maths and reading skills in the wake of the pandemic and Russia’s invasion, the United Nations warned yesterday.
29 August 2023, 18:00 PM
39 civilians killed in Sudan's Darfur: medics, witnesses
Thirty-nine civilians were killed, most of them women and children, when shelling hit their homes on Tuesday in war-torn Sudan's vast western region of Darfur, medics and witnesses said
29 August 2023, 08:09 AM