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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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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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Joy in Gaza, Israel after new ceasefire deal
Palestinians and the families of Israeli hostages broke into wild celebrations yesterday after news of a pact between Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza and return home all the Israeli hostages, both living and dead.
9 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Putin tells Azerbaijan's Aliyev how Russian air defences downed a passenger plane
Flight J2-8243 crash-landed on Dec 25 in Kazakhstan killing 38 people
9 October 2025, 12:50 PM
Astronomers spot young rogue planet gobbling up its surroundings
Rogue planet is located 620 light-years from Earth
9 October 2025, 10:31 AM
Macron seeks new PM to end France crisis
Lecornu had resigned early Monday after less than a month in office
9 October 2025, 04:30 AM
Thousands stranded as record floods submerge Vietnam streets
Record floods submerged streets and inundated homes in Vietnam on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded, with at least eight killed this week.
8 October 2025, 19:49 PM
Trio wins chemistry Nobel for planet-saving research
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry yesterday for their work developing metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), whose multiple uses include capturing carbon dioxide and harvesting water from desert air.
8 October 2025, 18:28 PM
Ex-FBI chief Comey pleads not guilty
Former FBI director James Comey pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to felony charges in a case widely seen as an escalation of President Donald Trump’s campaign of retribution against political opponents.
8 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Momentum from Alaska meeting ‘gone’: Russia
Russia yesterday said that momentum towards reaching a peace deal in Ukraine had largely vanished following Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s summit in Alaska, dimming hopes for a quick end to the three-and-a-half year war.
8 October 2025, 18:00 PM
UK PM hails India ties after trade deal
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer touted “unparalleled” opportunities opening up in India as he made his inaugural visit to the country yesterday, seeking to promote a trade deal signed this summer.
8 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Crisis deepens in France
France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen yesterday said she would thwart all action by any new government, throwing into doubt Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu’s ability to solve the country’s deepening political crisis with a coalition cabinet.
8 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Nestle quits global alliance on reducing dairy methane emissions
Nestle did not say why it was pulling out of the alliance
8 October 2025, 10:49 AM
Trio win Nobel Prize in Chemistry for development of metal–organic frameworks
2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi
8 October 2025, 09:44 AM
Britain not seeking visa deal with India, Starmer says
Starmer begins a two-day trip to India on Wednesday
8 October 2025, 06:03 AM
Trump unlikely to win Nobel Peace Prize, but who will?
Trump has repeatedly said he deserves the prestigious prize for resolving "eight conflicts"
8 October 2025, 03:19 AM
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $966 million in talc cancer case
Over 63,000 lawsuits claim J&J talc products cause cancer
7 October 2025, 19:44 PM
New PM inspires little hope in protest-hit Madagascar
President Andry Rajoelina’s appointment of an army general as new prime minister was met with little enthusiasm in Madagascar Tuesday and dismissed by the youth-led movement behind two weeks of protests as a diversion.
7 October 2025, 18:35 PM
Trio win Nobel for revealing quantum physics in action
US-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experiments that revealed quantum physics in action”, paving the way for the development of the next generation of digital technologies.
7 October 2025, 18:28 PM
Denmark to ban social media for under-15s
Denmark yesterday said it planned to introduce a social media ban for children under the age of 15.
7 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Macron should resign: ex-PM
Emmanuel Macron’s first prime minister and one-time ally on Tuesday urged the cornered French head of state to resign in a shock call that compounded an escalating political crisis.
7 October 2025, 18:00 PM
How the US funded Israel
Israel would not have been able to sustain its wars across the Middle East without the United States’s significant financial backing of more than $21bn since October 2023, according to a pair of new reports.
7 October 2025, 18:00 PM