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23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Most of world’s female journalists faced online violence: Study
Online violence against female journalists is one of the most serious global threats to press freedom and has contributed to female reporters being murdered, a new global report has found.
7 November 2022, 06:31 AM
Planet sending distress signal
Each of the last eight years, if projections for 2022 hold, will be hotter than any year prior to 2015, the UN said yesterday, detailing a dramatic increase in the rate of global warming.
6 November 2022, 18:00 PM
Landslides, floods kill seven in Venezuela
Landslides and floods caused by heavy rains have killed at least seven people in the coastal state of Anzoategui in eastern Venezuela, regional authorities announced on Friday.
5 November 2022, 18:00 PM
Myanmar takes delivery of Russian fighter jets
Myanmar’s military has begun taking delivery of a batch of Russian-made combat jets, a monitoring group said yesterday, the latest hardware shipped from Moscow as rights campaigners accuse the junta of hitting civilians with air strikes.
4 November 2022, 18:00 PM
Twitter begins layoffs
Twitter Inc temporarily closed its offices yesterday after telling employees they would be informed by email later in the day about whether they are being laid off.
4 November 2022, 18:00 PM
Pope visits Bahrain for interfaith talks
Pope Francis, leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, departed yesterday for the Gulf state of Bahrain to foster ties with Islam in a trip overshadowed by criticism of human rights abuses.
3 November 2022, 18:00 PM
‘Unblock’ roads
Brazil’s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro asked participants in what he said were “legitimate” protests to “unblock the roads” and demonstrate elsewhere
3 November 2022, 18:00 PM
Bolsonaro ‘authorizes’ transition in Brazil
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday “authorized” the transition to a new government, without acknowledging his defeat to leftist rival
2 November 2022, 18:00 PM
Explorer’s cameras found on glacier after 85 yrs
The cameras and equipment of a famed US explorer, Bradford Washburn, have been found after being abandoned in the ice of a Yukon glacier in 1937, Canadian officials said.
31 October 2022, 18:00 PM
Long passenger train breaks world record
The world’s longest passenger train -- an assembly of 100 connected coaches measuring nearly two kilometres -- wound through breath-taking scenery in the Swiss Alps Saturday.
30 October 2022, 18:00 PM
Eleven die in stampede in DR Congo
A stampede left nine spectators and two police officers dead during a packed concert by African music star Fally Ipupa at the biggest stadium in DR Congo’s capital, the interior minister said yesterday, blaming the organisers.
30 October 2022, 18:00 PM
Death toll climbs to 100; 300 hurt
The number of people killed in twin car bombings in the Somali capital Mogadishu, claimed by Al-Shabaab Islamists, has risen to 100, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said yesterday.
30 October 2022, 18:00 PM
South Korea mourns as death toll rises to 153
More than 150 people were killed in a stampede at a Halloween event in central Seoul, officials said yesterday, with South Korea’s president vowing a full investigation into one of the country’s worst-ever disasters.
30 October 2022, 18:00 PM
Mega party as S Africa crowns new Zulu king
Tens of thousands of people in colourful regalia gathered at a huge soccer stadium in the coastal city of Durban yesterday to celebrate the official coronation of South Africa’s Zulu king.
29 October 2022, 18:00 PM
45 killed Death toll to expected to rise
Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae whipped the Philippines yesterday after unleashing flash floods and landslides that officials said left at least 45 people dead.
29 October 2022, 18:00 PM
‘Today is last day of riots’
The head of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards yesterday warned protesters that would be their last day of taking to the streets, in a sign that security forces may intensify their fierce crackdown on unrest sweeping the country.
29 October 2022, 18:00 PM
Iceland’s thriller-loving PM pens first crime novel
Like many around the world, Iceland’s prime minister delved into her hobby during the pandemic. Now, the crime novel she co-wrote with one of Iceland’s most popular authors has just been published.
28 October 2022, 18:00 PM
Russia warns West of targeting commercial satellites
A senior Russian foreign ministry official said that commercial satellites from the United States and its allies could become legitimate targets for Russia if they were involved in the war in Ukraine.
27 October 2022, 12:38 PM
Thai media tycoon to buy Miss Universe pageant for $20 mn
A Thai celebrity media tycoon and transgender rights advocate has bought the Miss Universe Organization for $20 million, marking the first time the beauty pageant organiser will be owned by a woman, her company said on Wednesday.
26 October 2022, 14:43 PM
30 dead in Papua New Guinea island violence: police
Thirty people have been killed and several more have been injured in a wave of intercommunal violence on Papua New Guinea’s remote Trobriand Islands, police said yesterday.
25 October 2022, 18:00 PM