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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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23 October 2025, 07:34 AM
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23 October 2025, 06:50 AM
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India won’t be allowed to choke Indus River
Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir has warned that Pakistan will never allow India to choke the Indus River and will defend its water rights at all costs even if the forces will have to destroy any controversial dam that India sought to build on it.
11 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Says Zelensky; Ukrainian drones hit Russian missile component plant
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday warned against capitulating to the demands of Vladimir Putin ahead of talks this week between the Russian leader and US President Donald Trump.
11 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump seizes control of Washington DC police
President Donald Trump yesterday announced he is invoking the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to place the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control, a rare and controversial move.
11 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Arakan Army vows to block elections in its enclave
One of Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic groups yesterday pledged to block elections in areas it controls, rejecting polls the military junta has touted as a way of ending the civil war.
11 August 2025, 18:00 PM
One killed, dozens injured, as quake hits western Turkey
The quake was felt across several cities in the west of the country, including Istanbul and the tourist hotspot of Izmir.
11 August 2025, 02:38 AM
Migrants saved from refrigerated lorry in France
French medics had to treat Eritrean migrants hidden in a UK-bound refrigerated lorry for hypothermia Saturday, after the driver heard their cries for help, officials told AFP.
10 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Russian strikes kill 5 in Ukraine
A new round of Moscow’s shelling and drone attacks killed five people in Ukraine yesterday, authorities said, while Kyiv hit an oil refinery in Russia’s Saratov region.
10 August 2025, 18:00 PM
‘Self-amusement’
China’s former defence attache in South Asia Cheng Xizhong yesterday spurned India’s much-delayed claim that it had shot down six Pakistani aircraft during the May conflict, terming it “self-amusement”.
10 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Over 600 pilgrims hospitalised in Iraq
More than 600 pilgrims in Iraq were briefly hospitalised with respiratory problems after inhaling chlorine as the result of a leak at a water treatment station, authorities said yesterday.
10 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Iran threatens Trump-backed transit corridor
Iran threatened on Saturday to block a corridor planned in the Caucasus under a regional deal sponsored by US President Donald Trump, Iranian media reported, raising a new question mark over a peace plan hailed as a strategically important shift.
10 August 2025, 18:00 PM
China wants US to relax AI chip-export controls for trade deal, FT reports
The White House, State Department and China's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the report.
10 August 2025, 07:34 AM
Trump open to Alaska summit with Putin and Zelenskiy, White House says
However, the White House is currently planning a bilateral meeting with Putin at his request, the official added.
10 August 2025, 04:11 AM
UK police arrest over 466 at protest for banned Palestine Action group
Israel has faced accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice and from human rights groups over its devastating military assault in Gaza.
10 August 2025, 03:09 AM
Plastic pollution treaty: UN talks hit obstacles
Talks on forging a groundbreaking treaty to combat the scourge of plastic pollution were floundering yesterday, with progress slow and countries wildly at odds on what the proposed agreement should cover.
9 August 2025, 19:25 PM
Nagasaki bell rings 80 years after nuclear tragedy
Twin cathedral bells rang in unison yesterday in Japan’s Nagasaki for the first time since the atomic bombing of the city 80 years ago, commemorating the moment of horror.
9 August 2025, 19:23 PM
Blast kills six at Lebanon arms depot
The Lebanese army said on Saturday that six soldiers were killed and others wounded in an explosion while they were inspecting a weapons depot and dismantling its contents in the southern city of Tyre.
9 August 2025, 19:18 PM
Bus collision with truck kills 11, injures 45 in Brazil
A crash between a bus and a truck in Brazil’s center-western state of Mato Grosso killed 11 people and injured another 45 late Friday, the toll road operator and Brazil’s federal highway police said on Saturday.
9 August 2025, 19:10 PM
India claims shooting down 6 Pak jets in May
India shot down five Pakistani fighter jets and one other military aircraft during clashes in May, India’s air force chief said yesterday, the first such statement by the country months after its worst military conflict in decades with its neighbour.
9 August 2025, 19:00 PM
Japan population sees record drop
The population of Japanese nationals fell by a record amount -- more than 900,000 people -- in 2024, official data showed, as the country battles to reverse its perennially low birth rates.
7 August 2025, 20:56 PM
Sudan says army destroys Emirati aircraft, killing 40 mercenaries
Sudan’s air force has destroyed an Emirati aircraft carrying Colombian mercenaries as it landed at a paramilitary-controlled airport in Darfur, killing at least 40 people, the army-aligned state TV said Wednesday.
7 August 2025, 18:43 PM