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23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Blast at central Russian plant kills 10: governor
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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Africa accounts for 40pc of global conflicts: ICRC
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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China starts construction on world's largest hydropower dam in Tibet
The project is part of China's push to expand renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions.
21 July 2025, 03:00 AM
37 dead after tourist boat capsizes in Vietnam
Dozens of rescuers were scrambling in Vietnam yesterday to trace four missing people after retrieving the bodies of dozens killed when a thunderstorm capsized a boat in the top tourist destination of Halong Bay, authorities said.
20 July 2025, 21:00 PM
US races to build migrant tent camps
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is racing to build migrant tent camps nationwide after receiving $45 billion in new funding, aiming to expand detention capacity from 40,000 to 100,000 beds by year-end, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
20 July 2025, 19:44 PM
‘Tense calm’ in Syria’s Sweida
Residents reported calm in the Syrian city of Sweida yesterday after the Islamist-led government declared that Bedouin fighters had withdrawn from the predominantly Druze city and the United States stepped up calls for an end to fighting.
20 July 2025, 19:43 PM
Russia downs 142 Ukrainian drones
Russia’s defence ministry and the mayor of Moscow said it had downed 142 drones early yesterday, including 27 over the Moscow region.
20 July 2025, 19:42 PM
Tsunami alert after powerful quakes strike off coast of Russia: USGS
It said the tsunami alert zone applied for coastal areas within a radius of 300 kilometres (186 miles) of the epicentre
20 July 2025, 07:51 AM
Clashes rage in Druze region as Syria struggles to enforce ceasefire
Reuters reporters heard gunfire from inside the city of Sweida and saw shells land in nearby villages. There were no immediate, confirmed reports of casualties.
20 July 2025, 03:05 AM
Trump sues Wall Street Journal over Epstein report, seeks $10 billion
The lawsuit filed in Miami federal court names Murdoch, Dow Jones, News Corp NWSA.O and its Chief Executive Robert Thomson, and two Wall Street Journal reporters as defendants
20 July 2025, 02:59 AM
US tech CEO in viral Coldplay concert video resigns
During a Coldplay concert in Foxborough, the jumbotron zoomed in on a man and a woman embracing in the stands.
20 July 2025, 02:52 AM
US declares Syria-Israel ceasefire
Syrian interior ministry forces began deploying in Sweida yesterday under a US-brokered deal intended to avert further Israeli military intervention in the Druze-majority province.
19 July 2025, 20:50 PM
Trump says 5 jets shot down
US President Donald Trump said on Friday up to five jets were shot down during recent India-Pakistan hostilities.
19 July 2025, 20:50 PM
DR Congo, M23 armed group sign ceasefire deal
The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed armed group M23 signed a ceasefire deal on Saturday to end fighting that has devastated the country’s mineral-rich but conflict-torn east.
19 July 2025, 18:55 PM
Singapore facing 'serious' cyberattack, says minister
The attack, a kind of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), poses a serious danger to the city-state, Coordinating Minister for National Security K. Shanmugam said in a speech late Friday.
19 July 2025, 10:28 AM
El Salvador frees jailed Venezuelan migrants in US prisoner deal
The 252 men were accused -- without evidence -- of being gang members and flown to the notorious CECOT "anti-terror" jail last March.
19 July 2025, 02:51 AM
Trump sues Murdoch, newspaper over Epstein sex bombshell
The defamation lawsuit, filed in federal court in Miami, saw the 79-year-old Republican hitting back at a scandal threatening to cause serious political damage.
19 July 2025, 02:44 AM
US announces Syria-Israel truce as new clashes rock Druze heartland
Israel intervened Wednesday with major strikes in the heart of the capital Damascus, including hitting the army's headquarters.
19 July 2025, 02:39 AM
Syria tribes clash with Druze fighters
Armed tribes supported by Syria’s Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters outside Sweida yesterday a day after government troops withdrew from the Druze-majority city, the warring parties and a monitoring group said.
18 July 2025, 19:44 PM
11.6m refugees may lose aid access
Up to 11.6 million refugees are in danger of losing access to humanitarian assistance due to cuts in foreign aid by donor nations, the United Nations refugee agency said yesterday.
18 July 2025, 18:53 PM
Sunken WWII Japanese warship found off Solomon Islands
An international research team has located a Japanese World War II destroyer on the deep seabed off Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
18 July 2025, 08:13 AM
Germany deports 81 Afghans convicted of crimes
Berlin said it had on Friday deported 81 Afghan men convicted of crimes in Germany in the second such operation to their Taliban-controlled homeland
18 July 2025, 07:52 AM