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Gunmen kill Pak militia chief, 5 others
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Blast at central Russian plant kills 10: governor
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No reduction in Gaza hunger since truce: WHO
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Full brunt of financial tightening yet to materialize: IMF
Countries have yet to see the full impact of tightening financial conditions, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has said, warning that central banks have some way to go in their inflation battle.
13 January 2023, 12:43 PM
‘Guitarist’s guitarist’ Jeff Beck no more
Jeff Beck, the influential, genre-bending English guitarist who rose to fame with The Yardbirds before embarking on a solo career, has died at the age of 78, his family announced on social media on Wednesday.
12 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Show Ukraine-like concern in other crises
Human Rights Watch yesterday hailed the international response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, urging governments to show the same concern for civilians caught up in other conflicts.
12 January 2023, 18:00 PM
US, Japan boost security cooperation as China worries grow
The United States and Japan plan to boost military and security cooperation as their top national security officials held talks on Wednesday.
12 January 2023, 02:39 AM
US border plan risks undermining basic human rights: UN
The UN rights chief yesterday warned that a new US border enforcement plan risks undermining the basic foundations of international human rights and refugee law.
11 January 2023, 18:00 PM
UN decries loss of 5m children in 2021
An estimated five million children under the age of five died in 2021, the United Nations said Tuesday,
11 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Canada bars Lanka’s Rajapaksa brothers
Canada has issued a travel ban on former Sri Lankan presidents -- and brothers -- Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa for human
11 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Cost-of-living crisis biggest global risk: Study
The cost-of-living crisis is the biggest global risk over the next two years, the World Economic Forum warned Wednesday in a survey preceding its annual Davos meetings of global elites.
11 January 2023, 15:33 PM
1 child or youth died every 5 seconds in 2021, says UN report
An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5-24 years lost their lives in 2021, according to the latest estimates released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
11 January 2023, 11:01 AM
Brazil locks down Congress area after riots
Brazilian security forces locked down the area around Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court yesterday, a day after supporters of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the seat of power in riots that triggered an international outcry.
9 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Global piracy acts drop to 14-year low
Worldwide acts of piracy fell to their lowest level last year since statistics were first established in 2008, a maritime security body said yesterday.
9 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Brazil probes anti-democratic riots as world leaders condemn attacks
Brazil's Supreme Court removed the governor of Brasilia from office for 90 days over security failings that it said allowed thousands of backers of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro to ransack government buildings in the capital.
9 January 2023, 10:18 AM
Iranians gather outside French embassy to protest Charlie Hebdo cartoons
Dozens of Iranians gathered Sunday outside the French embassy in Tehran protesting against cartoons of the Islamic republic's supreme leader by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
8 January 2023, 15:55 PM
US invested in Bangladesh’s success: Biden
US President Joe Biden has said his country acknowledges their enduring partnership with Dhaka and termed Bangladesh's economic growth in the past 50 years a "remarkable story".
8 January 2023, 05:22 AM
Mexico metro crash kills 1, injures 57
Two metro trains collided in a Mexico City tunnel Saturday, killing one person and injuring 57, authorities in the megacity of 20 million reported.
8 January 2023, 03:05 AM
Brazil sees 150pc rise in December
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rose 150 percent in December from the previous year, according to government figures released Friday,
7 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Flexible working hours are good for business: UN
Flexible working arrangements like those introduced during the Covid crisis are not only good for employees but also boost productivity and potentially a business’s bottom line, the United Nations said yesterday.
6 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Peruvians clamor anew for president’s removal
After a fortnight-long break, Peruvians took to the streets again on Wednesday, blocking roads countrywide to demand the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, who took over from her ousted predecessor in December.
5 January 2023, 18:00 PM
UNSC to discuss Israeli minister’s Al-Aqsa visit
The UN Security Council was scheduled to meet yesterday to discuss the controversial visit to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound by an Israeli minister that has enraged Palestinians.
5 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Iran warns France over 'insulting' Khamenei cartoons
Iran warned France on Wednesday of consequences after satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published cartoons depicting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Tehran deemed to be insulting.
5 January 2023, 05:33 AM