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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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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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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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Cat climbs onto sheikh leading Ramadan prayers in Algeria
A cat wandered around the Sheikh until it jumped on him
6 April 2023, 05:07 AM
Ardern delivers final speech
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern bowed out of parliament yesterday, making an impassioned plea during her tearful final speech to “please take the politics out of climate change”.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Four children killed in attack
A 25-year-old attacker burst into a preschool in southern Brazil and killed four children yesterday with a bladed weapon before turning himself in to police, authorities said.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshis among 440 migrants rescued from Mediterranean Sea
A total of 440 migrants, including Bangladeshis, have been rescued from an overcrowded fishing boat in international waters off Malta, after a complex 11-hour operation in stormy seas, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity said today..MSF said its Geo Barents vessel struggled with the
5 April 2023, 10:54 AM
China can play 'major role' in finding 'path to peace' in Ukraine: Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron said today China could play a major role in finding a "path to peace" in Ukraine, in his first speech since arriving for a three-day state visit..Speaking to French citizens in the Chinese capital about a range of issues including Russia's war in Ukraine, M
5 April 2023, 09:40 AM
UK passport workers launch five-week walkout over pay
UK passport office workers launched a five-week stoppage yesterday, the latest walkout in strike-hit Britain as the country reels from the worst cost of living crisis in a generation.
3 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Finland to become 31st Nato member tomorrow
Finland's flag will be hoisted outside NATO headquarters on Tuesday when it becomes the newest member of the Western alliance, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
3 April 2023, 11:44 AM
3 dead as 7.0-magnitude quake hits Papua New Guinea
At least three people were killed after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake shook a remote region of northwestern Papua New Guinea before dawn Monday.
3 April 2023, 07:08 AM
Women-run radio station in Afghanistan shut down for "playing music"
A radio station in Afghanistan’s northeast region, which is run by women, was shut down for playing music during the month of Ramadan, Al Jazeera reports quoting a Taliban official..Sadai Banowan, is the only women-run station in Afghanistan and came into operation 10 years ago with eight
3 April 2023, 06:52 AM
Bomb kills Russian war blogger in St Petersburg cafe
Well-known Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed by a bomb blast in a St Petersburg cafe on Sunday in what appeared to be the second assassination on Russian soil of a figure closely associated with the war in Ukraine
3 April 2023, 05:34 AM
McDonald's temporarily shuts US offices, prepares layoff notices
Burger chain McDonald's Corp (MCD.N) is temporarily closing its US offices this week as it prepares to inform corporate employees about its layoffs as part of a broader company restructuring, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.
3 April 2023, 05:29 AM
Landslide in east DR Congo kills 19
The disaster occurred in the late morning in the village of Bulwa, in North Kivu's Masisi territory, according to Chadrack Mbukanirwa Ndibanja, one of the village leaders
3 April 2023, 01:42 AM
High level of activity spotted: think tank
Satellite imagery has indicated a high level of activity at North Korea’s main nuclear complex after leader Kim Jong Un ordered the production of weapons-grade nuclear material be ramped up, a US think tank said.
2 April 2023, 18:00 PM
'High level of activity at North Korean nuclear complex'
US think tank says
2 April 2023, 06:10 AM
2 die after hot air balloon catches fire in Mexico
"The passengers jumped from the balloon," the government of the state of Mexico said in a statement, adding that a child suffered burns
2 April 2023, 01:59 AM
Tourists among 4 killed in Norway avalanches
"There were five people of foreign origin that were on an outing in the area. We can confirm that one person is deceased," Morten Pettersen, a spokesman for the police, told journalists.
1 April 2023, 02:20 AM
8 found dead crossing into US from Canada
"A total of eight bodies have now been recovered from the waters," local police chief Shawn Dulude told a press conference
1 April 2023, 02:08 AM
Suu Kyi’s party: US, allies concerned over its dissolution
The United States, Britain, Japan and Australia on Wednesday expressed their concern over the dissolution of Myanmar’s former ruling party and urged a more inclusive process to return the country to democracy.
30 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Migrants: Rights body raps Europe for their ‘inhuman’ treatment
Europe’s top rights body yesterday blasted the “inhuman” treatment of migrants who were brutally turned away at its borders, especially the EU’s external frontier.
30 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Bolsonaro returns to Brazil
Three months after leaving for the United States in the final hours of his term, Brazil’s ex-president Jair Bolsonaro returned home yesterday to re-enter politics -- complicating life for his successor and nemesis, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
30 March 2023, 18:00 PM