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'Welcome to hell': Freed migrants tell of horrors in Salvadoran jail
Yamarte was one of 252 Venezuelans detained in US President Donald Trump's March immigration crackdown
27 July 2025, 03:23 AM
US passenger plane dives to avoid mid-air collision
Minutes after taking off from Burbank, California, the flight dropped by hundreds of feet (several dozen meters) according to flight tracking websites.
27 July 2025, 03:15 AM
11 injured at Walmart store stabbing in US state of Michigan
A 42-year-old male suspect was in custody, Grand Traverse County Sheriff Michael Shea told a press conference.
27 July 2025, 03:10 AM
Immigration ‘killing’ Europe
US President Donald Trump on Friday said that Europe needs to “get its act together” in terms of immigration, claiming the continent would not exist “anymore” if this “invasion” goes unchecked.
26 July 2025, 19:42 PM
652 malnourished children die in six months in Nigeria
At least 652 children died from malnutrition in the Nigerian state of Katsina in the first six months of 2025, Mèdecìns Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Friday, an outcome it said it was due to funding cuts by international donors.
26 July 2025, 19:41 PM
China proposes new global AI cooperation organisation
China wants to help coordinate global efforts to regulate fast-evolving AI technology and share the country's advances, Premier Li Qiang told the annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.
26 July 2025, 09:29 AM
Malaysians protest rising living costs
The rally organised by opposition parties marked the first major protest in Southeast Asia's sixth-largest economy since Anwar was propelled to power after general elections in 2022.
26 July 2025, 09:26 AM
Taiwan votes in high-stakes recall election
Civic groups backed by Lai's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) are seeking to unseat 31 lawmakers belonging to the main opposition Kuomintang party
26 July 2025, 03:35 AM
Late-life depression: learn to spot the signs early
Depression goes undiagnosed when symptoms are mistaken for age-related physical illnesses
26 July 2025, 03:32 AM
US sanctions Venezuelan gang allegedly linked to Maduro
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced restrictions on the so-called "Cartel of the Suns," classing it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity.
26 July 2025, 03:22 AM
Death toll rises in Thai-Cambodian clashes despite ceasefire call
Thailand and Cambodia clashed for a third day on Saturday, as the death toll from the fighting rose to 33
26 July 2025, 02:50 AM
Gunmen kill 14 in north-central Nigeria market ‘ambush’
Unidentified gunmen in Nigeria’s restive Plateau state killed 14 people in an ambush Thursday as they returned home from a weekly market, local residents and a Red Cross official told AFP.
25 July 2025, 19:40 PM
Indonesia says its poverty rate lowest in two decades
The number of Indonesians living under the poverty line has hit a record low for the past two decades, the country’s statistics bureau said yesterday.
25 July 2025, 19:39 PM
Syria arms depot blasts kill 12
A series of explosions killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 100 at a weapons depot in northwestern Syria on Thursday, a monitor said.
25 July 2025, 19:34 PM
Europeans, Iran hold ‘frank’ nuclear talks
Iran said it would continue nuclear talks with European powers after “serious, frank, and detailed” conversations yesterday, the first such face-to-face meeting since Israel and the US bombed Iran last month.
25 July 2025, 19:34 PM
Musk’s Starlink network suffers rare global outage
SpaceX’s Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when an internal software failure knocked tens of thousands of users offline, a rare disruption for Elon Musk’s powerful satellite internet system.
25 July 2025, 18:47 PM
US lifts sanctions on Myanmar junta allies
The United States lifted sanctions designations on several allies of Myanmar’s ruling generals on Thursday, two weeks after the head of the ruling junta praised President Donald Trump and called for an easing of sanctions in a letter responding to a tariff warning.
25 July 2025, 18:10 PM
India’s rajasthan: School roof collapse kills 7 children
At least seven children were killed and 17 injured in India’s western state of Rajasthan after the roof of a school building collapsed yesterday, local media reported, with dozens still feared trapped under the rubble.
25 July 2025, 18:09 PM
Thailand warns of war with Cambodia
Thailand’s acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai warned yesterday that cross-border clashes with Cambodia that have uprooted more than 130,000 people “could develop into war”, as the countries traded deadly strikes for a second day.
25 July 2025, 18:03 PM
World reacts to France's move to recognise State of Palestine
France will formally recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday
25 July 2025, 04:53 AM