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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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23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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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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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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India to keep buying Russian oil defying Trump
India will keep purchasing oil from Russia despite US President Donald Trump’s threats of penalties, two Indian government sources said, not wishing to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter.
2 August 2025, 20:04 PM
US envoy meets Israeli hostage families in Tel Aviv
US envoy Steve Witkoff met anguished relatives of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza yesterday, as fears for the captives’ survival mounted almost 22 months into the war sparked by Hamas’s October 2023 attack.
2 August 2025, 18:54 PM
Trump deploys nuclear submarines
US President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of two nuclear submarines Friday in an extraordinary escalation of what had been an online war of words with a Russian official over Ukraine and tariffs.
2 August 2025, 18:22 PM
Colombian ex-president Uribe sentenced to 12 years house arrest
Uribe, 73, received the maximum possible sentence after being found guilty of witness tampering.
2 August 2025, 03:27 AM
Italy to begin Gaza air drops: foreign minister
The first drops could come on August 9, he said.
2 August 2025, 03:24 AM
Trump orders firing of US official as cracks emerge in jobs market
The United States added 73,000 jobs last month, while the unemployment rate rose to 4.2 percent from 4.1 percent, said the Department of Labor earlier Friday.
2 August 2025, 03:19 AM
Cambodia to nominate Trump for Nobel Prize
Cambodia will nominate US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, its deputy prime minister said yesterday, following his direct intervention in halting the Southeast Asian country’s recent border conflict with Thailand.
1 August 2025, 19:05 PM
Relief in SE Asia over Trump tariffs
Southeast Asian countries breathed a sigh of relief yesterday after the US announced tariffs on their exports that were far lower than threatened and levelled the playing field with a rate of about 19 percent across the region’s biggest economies.
1 August 2025, 18:26 PM
Gaza civil defence says Israeli fire kills 22
There was no comment from the Israeli military
1 August 2025, 16:35 PM
Trump increases tariff on Canada to 35% from 25%
US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order increasing tariffs on Canadian goods to 35% from 25% on all products not covered by the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, the White House said.
1 August 2025, 05:45 AM
Russia's actions in Ukraine 'disgusting': Trump
Washington has given Moscow until the end of next week to cease hostilities in Ukraine, under threat of severe economic sanctions
1 August 2025, 03:39 AM
Pakistan says it wins US tariff deal
The United States and Pakistan hailed a trade deal on Thursday that Islamabad said would lead to lower tariffs and increased investment, but without specifying the level of tariff to be levied on Pakistani exports.
31 July 2025, 22:59 PM
Return soldiers taken in border clashes
Cambodia yesterday accused Thailand of detaining 20 of its soldiers and killing another in post-ceasefire incidents, as a fragile peace held for a third day along their disputed border.
31 July 2025, 18:00 PM
Indian court acquits ex-MP, six others
An Indian court yesterday acquitted a firebrand Hindu nationalist nun and former lawmaker, and six others accused of participating in a deadly bombing near a mosque in 2008.
31 July 2025, 18:00 PM
Pak opposition leader given 10 yrs for Imran Khan protests
The opposition leader in Pakistan’s parliament was among more than 100 people convicted yesterday over nationwide protests in support of Imran Khan in 2023, his party said.
31 July 2025, 18:00 PM
Israeli settlers cut off water, power sources
Palestinians in the village of Susiya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank thought life could not get worse as Jewish settlers were attacking them repeatedly and ripping apart their precious olive groves.
31 July 2025, 18:00 PM
Pacific tsunami warnings lifted
Countries across Pacific rim lifted tsunami warnings earlier yesterday, allowing millions of evacuees to return home.
31 July 2025, 18:00 PM
War of words escalates between US, Russia
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday told US President Donald Trump to remember that Moscow possessed Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities of last resort after Trump told Medvedev to “watch his words”.
31 July 2025, 18:00 PM
Death toll in north China rises to 60
Extreme weather killed at least 60 people in northern China over the past week, with 31 deaths in an elderly care home in Beijing’s hilly Miyun district in one of the deadliest floods to have hit the Chinese capital in years.
31 July 2025, 18:00 PM
Tehran dams may run dry within months
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned yesterday that dams supplying the capital could run dry within months unless water consumption was curbed.
31 July 2025, 18:00 PM