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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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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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23 October 2025, 06:50 AM
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Social media use is linked to brain changes in teens: Study
The effect of social media use on children is a fraught area of research as parents and policymakers try to ascertain the results of a vast experiment already in full swing.
4 January 2023, 05:51 AM
Seven killed as Mexican police seek escaped prisoners
Seven people were killed Monday in northern Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez during a police operation to recapture prisoners who escaped after an attack at their facility, state authorities announced.
3 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Russian gas exports outside ex-Soviet states fell 45.5% in 2022
Russian gas exports to countries outside a group of former Soviet republics plunged by 45.5 percent in 2022, figures from gas giant Gazprom showed on Monday.
2 January 2023, 12:35 PM
Lula takes office for third term as Brazil president
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office Sunday for a third term as Brazil's president, in a ceremony snubbed by outgoing leader Jair Bolsonaro, underlining the deep divisions the veteran leftist inherits.
1 January 2023, 19:03 PM
Colombia strikes truce deal with armed groups
Colombia’s government has agreed to a six-month ceasefire with the five largest armed groups operating in the country, President Gustavo Petro announced on New Year’s Eve.
1 January 2023, 18:00 PM
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1 January 2023, 18:00 PM
At least 20 people killed in clashes in Somaliland
At least 20 people have been killed in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland in clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces over several days, according to a doctor at a public hospital.
1 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Kim orders an ‘exponential increase’ in North Korea’s nuclear arsenal
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for developing new intercontinental ballistic missiles and a larger nuclear arsenal to counter US-led threats, state media said on Sunday, amid flaring tension between the rival Koreas.
1 January 2023, 03:50 AM
World steps into 2023 after turbulent year
The world's eight billion people Saturday ushered in 2023, bidding farewell to a turbulent 12 months marked by war in Europe, stinging price rises, Lionel Messi's World Cup glory and the deaths of Queen Elizabeth, Pele and former pope Benedict.
1 January 2023, 03:06 AM
2 dead, 200 rescued in Lebanon migrant boat sinking: army
Two migrants died and another 200 were rescued Saturday when their boat sank off Lebanon's northern coast, from where increasing numbers make the risky journey to flee a collapsed economy.
1 January 2023, 01:48 AM
Musk makes history by losing $200b
Elon Musk became the only person in human history to lose $200 billion from net worth, Bloomberg Billionaire Index showed.
31 December 2022, 18:00 PM
UNGA refers Israeli occupation to UN court
The UN General Assembly on Friday asked the International Court of Justice to consider consequences for Israel over its occupation of Palestinian territories, a day after the Jewish state’s most right-wing government ever took over.
31 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Fask Back 2022
Future historians may come to regard 2022 as a hinge in history, marking the end of one era and the beginning of another. Major war returned to Europe, with the attendant threats of nuclear strikes, and the door closed firmly shut on the US policy of
31 December 2022, 18:00 PM
BBC Bangla Radio: a voice in history goes off air tonight
The BBC Bangla radio broadcast, the most reliable source of news during the years leading up to the Liberation War and later, will be discontinued after 81 years.
31 December 2022, 10:26 AM
Trailblazing US news anchor Barbara Walters dies at 93
Barbara Walters, one of the most visible women on US television as the first female anchor on an American network evening news broadcast and one of TV's most prominent interviewers, died on Friday at age 93, her longtime ABC News home said.
31 December 2022, 09:48 AM
Iran airport bus crash leaves 1 dead, over 30 injured
At least one person was killed and more than 30 were injured when two busses collided at Iran's main international airport near the capital Tehran, state media reported.
31 December 2022, 07:43 AM
World readies to ring in 2023
The world's eight billion people on Saturday prepared to usher in 2023 and farewell a turbulent 12 months marked by war in Europe, stinging price rises and Lionel Messi's world cup glory.
31 December 2022, 03:58 AM
Biden signs $1.7 trillion US govt spending bill
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed off on a $1.7 trillion spending bill that will keep the US government funded through the next fiscal year -- notably including another big package for Ukraine’s war effort.
30 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Russia wants deeper military cooperation with China
Russian leader Vladimir Putin told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday he was keen to ramp up military cooperation and hailed the two countries' efforts to counter Western influence.
30 December 2022, 13:44 PM
10 killed in huge hotel-casino fire on Cambodian border
As many as 10 people have died in a fire at a Cambodian hotel-casino on the border of Thailand, with photos showing groups desperately huddled on ledges as fierce flames surround them.
29 December 2022, 05:44 AM