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23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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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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‘All I think about is Gaza’
Away from home in Gaza, Palestinian pilgrim Mohammed Shehade said the rare chance he was given to perform hajj is overshadowed by fears for his family trapped in the war-battered territory.
1 June 2025, 18:00 PM
India's monsoon rains kill at least 30 in northeast
A red alert warning was issued for several districts in the region after the non-stop downpour over the last three days.
1 June 2025, 07:11 AM
At least 87 protesters arrested in Turkey: lawyers
Several young people published a message on X saying: "We have been arrested."
1 June 2025, 03:41 AM
21 athletes killed in Nigeria road crash
The athletes were returning to Kano, in Nigeria's north, from the 22nd National Sports Festival, held around 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) to the south in Ogun state.
1 June 2025, 03:36 AM
At least 7 dead after Russian bridge collapses onto railway
A train travelling from the Russian border town of Klimovo to the capital Moscow was derailed in the incident, authorities said, without giving details.
1 June 2025, 03:08 AM
Trump says withdrawing Musk ally as nominee to head NASA
Trump said last December, before returning to office, that he wanted the online payments entrepreneur and the first private astronaut to conduct a spacewalk to serve as the next head of NASA.
1 June 2025, 02:56 AM
Floods in Nigeria kill at least 150
Flash flooding earlier this week in central Nigeria killed more than 150 people, a local disaster response spokesman told AFP yesterday, while displacing 3,000, levelling more than 250 homes and washing away two bridges.
31 May 2025, 18:00 PM
India says changed tactics worked well in conflict with Pakistan
India suffered initial losses in the air, says India's chief of defence staff
31 May 2025, 11:05 AM
Israel won't cooperate with Arab ministers visiting West Bank: official
Israel this week announced the creation of 22 new West Bank settlements
31 May 2025, 08:52 AM
Musk vows to stay Trump's 'friend' in bizarre black-eyed farewell
As the world's richest person bowed out of his role as Trump's cost-cutter-in-chief, the Republican hailed Musk's "incredible service" and handed him a golden key to the White House.
31 May 2025, 05:15 AM
Trump says Chinese students in US will 'be ok'
Trump's administration this week said it would specifically target permissions for Chinese students, in its latest broadside against US higher education.
31 May 2025, 05:10 AM
Saudi warned Iran to reach nuclear deal with Trump or risk Israeli strike
While media covered the 37-year-old prince's visit, the content of the King Salman's covert message has not been previously reported.
31 May 2025, 04:18 AM
3,000-year-old Mayan city found in Guatemala
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and monuments that point to its significance as an important ceremonial site, the Central American country’s culture ministry said Thursday.
30 May 2025, 19:10 PM
IS claims first attack on new Syria forces
The Islamic State (IS) group on Thursday evening claimed its first attack on Syria’s new government forces since the fall of longtime Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, two war monitors said.
30 May 2025, 18:00 PM
US SC lets Trump revoke ‘parole’ status for migrants
The US Supreme Court yesterday let President Donald Trump’s administration revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States, bolstering the Republican president’s drive to step up deportations.
30 May 2025, 18:00 PM
Hamas says new US-backed truce proposal does not meet demands
Negotiations to end more than 19 months of war have so far failed to achieve a breakthrough
30 May 2025, 10:05 AM
EU chief calls for ‘independent Europe’ amid global turmoil
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen called for a “truly independent Europe” at a time of seismic change on the world stage, as she received the International Charlemagne Prize yesterday.
29 May 2025, 19:45 PM
Navy patrol plane crashes in South Korea, killing four
A navy maritime patrol plane crashed in South Korea yesterday, killing all four people on board, authorities said.
29 May 2025, 19:44 PM
Israeli strike kills one in south Lebanon
Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike on the country’s south killed one man yesterday, with Israel saying it struck a member of the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
29 May 2025, 19:43 PM
Russia proposes new Ukraine talks in Istanbul
Russia said Wednesday it wanted new talks with Ukraine in Istanbul next Monday to present its plan for a peace settlement, but Kyiv said it needed to see the proposal in advance for the meeting to yield results.
29 May 2025, 18:00 PM