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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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India poised to sharply cut Russian oil purchases after sanctions, sources say
23 October 2025, 06:50 AM
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Himalayan snow at 23-year low
Snowfall in Asia’s Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountain range has reached a 23-year low, threatening nearly two billion people dependent on snowmelt for water, scientists warned in a report yesterday.
21 April 2025, 18:00 PM
Russia resumes air attacks on Ukraine
Russia yesterday launched a wave of aerial attacks at Ukraine in an abrupt end to a fragile 30-hour Easter truce between the two sides.
21 April 2025, 18:00 PM
Who might succeed Pope Francis? Some possible candidates
An old Italian saying warns against putting faith, or money, in any presumed front-runner ahead of the conclave, the closed-door gathering of cardinals that picks the pontiff. It cautions: "He who enters a conclave as a pope, leaves it as a cardinal"
21 April 2025, 12:29 PM
Reactions to the death of Pope Francis
Following are reactions to death o Pope Francis
21 April 2025, 09:05 AM
Pope Francis: Key moments from his life
Here are some facts about Pope Francis, who has died at the age of 88
21 April 2025, 08:44 AM
What happens after the pope dies?
Here is how the process unfolds
21 April 2025, 08:40 AM
Francis: Radical leader who broke the papal mould
After Benedict died in 2022, Francis became the first sitting pope in modern history to lead a papal funeral.
21 April 2025, 08:24 AM
China sanctions US congress members, officials and NGO heads
The sanctions come in response to the US sanctioning six Chinese and Hong Kong officials last month
21 April 2025, 07:44 AM
NASA's oldest active astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday
Spending 220 days in space, Pettit and his crewmates Ovchinin and Vagner orbited the Earth 3,520 times and completed a journey of 93.3 million miles over the course of their mission.
21 April 2025, 06:49 AM
West Bank campus a dystopian shelter for Palestinians uprooted again
Now forced to leave their homes in the Jenin refugee camp, residents fear a repeat of the collective trauma they inherited.
21 April 2025, 06:16 AM
Vance arrives in India, to hold talks with Modi under US tariffs shadow
Vance landed at New Delhi's Palam airport on Monday following a visit to Rome, where he held a private meeting with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday.
21 April 2025, 06:07 AM
Trump threatens to cut another $1 billion in Harvard funding
This time, Trump targeted health research
21 April 2025, 04:18 AM
Israel cancels visas for French lawmakers
The action came only days after Israel stopped two British members of parliament from the governing Labour party from entering the country.
21 April 2025, 03:37 AM
Two killed in US strikes on Sanaa
At least two people were killed in overnight US strikes in and around Yemen’s capital Sanaa, media controlled by the Houthi rebels reported yesterday, in the latest such air raid.
20 April 2025, 18:00 PM
US SC intervenes to block Trump deportations
The US Supreme Court, in a dramatic nighttime intervention Saturday, blocked President Donald Trump’s unprecedented use of an obscure law to deport Venezuelan migrants without due process.
20 April 2025, 18:00 PM
Three dead as rain triggers landslides in India’s J&K
Three people have died and the Srinagar-Jammu national highway in India, the lifeline of the Valley, has been shut after heavy rain caused landslides and triggered flash floods in the Union Territory yesterday.
20 April 2025, 18:00 PM
‘Frustrated’ by pace of Gaza ceasefire talks
Qatar’s chief negotiator voiced frustration over talks for a truce in Gaza in an interview with AFP, a month after Israel resumed its strikes on the Palestinian territory and another round of negotiations ended without a deal.
20 April 2025, 18:00 PM
Mamata accuses BJP-RSS of ‘divisive politics’
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of “using” Murshidabad violence to “play divisive politics”.
20 April 2025, 18:00 PM
Moscow may gain key role as US talks progress
Russia could play a key role in a deal on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme, with Moscow being touted not only as a possible destination for Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, but also as a possible arbiter of deal breaches.
20 April 2025, 18:00 PM
Disarming Iran-backed Hezbollah ‘delicate’
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said yesterday that disarming the Iran-backed Hezbollah group was a “delicate” matter whose implementation required the right circumstances, warning that forcing the issue could lead the country to ruin.
20 April 2025, 18:00 PM