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Asian markets bounce from selloff as US jobs beat forecasts

6 November 2025, 14:00 PM Top News

Gunmen kill Pak militia chief, 5 others

23 October 2025, 18:00 PM News

Blast at central Russian plant kills 10: governor

23 October 2025, 18:00 PM News

Spat with Musk’s X / India limits content takedown powers to fewer officials

23 October 2025, 18:00 PM News

Methane threat grows as global action stalls: UN

23 October 2025, 18:00 PM News

Africa accounts for 40pc of global conflicts: ICRC

23 October 2025, 18:00 PM News

Any new attack would be ‘another failure’: Iran

23 October 2025, 18:00 PM News

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No reduction in Gaza hunger since truce: WHO

23 October 2025, 17:44 PM News

China, US to hold trade talks in Malaysia in coming days

23 October 2025, 07:34 AM News

India poised to sharply cut Russian oil purchases after sanctions, sources say

23 October 2025, 06:50 AM Business

Harvard Univ: Trump defends block on foreign students

US President Donald Trump yesterday defended his administration’s move to block foreign students at Harvard after a judge suspended the action, branded by the top university as unlawful.

25 May 2025, 18:05 PM

North Korea detains three over accident

North Korea has detained three people over an accident that occurred during the launch of a new warship this past week, state media reported early yesterday.

25 May 2025, 18:00 PM

Fire cuts power to 45,000 in French Riviera

French Riviera authorities said yesterday they are boosting security around electricity grid sites after an overnight fire in a substation that cut power to 45,000 people, and a massive blackout during the Cannes film festival blamed on sabotage.

25 May 2025, 18:00 PM

Syria to help locate missing Americans: US

Syria’s new authorities have agreed to help the United States locate and return Americans who went missing in the war-ravaged country, a US envoy said yesterday, in another sign of thawing bilateral ties.

25 May 2025, 18:00 PM

Australia airdrops supplies to farmers

Helicopters were yesterday airdropping animal feed to farmers in Australia stranded by floods that have killed five and isolated tens of thousands in the country’s southeast.

25 May 2025, 18:00 PM

Malaysia calls for truce extension

Malaysia yesterday called for the extension and expansion of a post-earthquake ceasefire in Myanmar, as it ramped up calls for the long-awaited implementation of a five-point peace plan.

25 May 2025, 18:00 PM

Opposition vows boycott as Venezuela holds new vote

A trickle of Venezuelans lined up at the polls early yesterday to elect a new parliament and state governors in a vote that the main opposition party was boycotting in protest at last summer’s disputed reelection of President Nicolas Maduro.

25 May 2025, 18:00 PM

HRW accuses Qatar of discriminating against Baha'i minority

The Baha'i faith, whose global headquarters is in Israel, claims more than seven million followers worldwide.

25 May 2025, 09:52 AM

Harvard's foreign students in limbo after Trump admin revokes their enrollment

Harvard currently has nearly 7,000 international students, representing about 27% of its total enrollment.

25 May 2025, 05:30 AM

UK renationalises first train operator under Labour reforms

Renationalising all of the UK's rail operators is among the key policies launched by Prime Minister Keir Starmer since his party's return to government last July following 14 years in opposition.

25 May 2025, 05:18 AM