Roadmap in works for new nations to join Makkah pact
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Rescuers hunt for missing after Northern Cyprus ferry accident
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Libya’s rival groups sign UN-backed polls agreement
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HIMALAYAN FLOOD DISASTER / Nepalis scour hospitals for missing family
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In Brief: SCO SUMMIT / Putin, Xi, Pezeshkian in Kyrgyzstan
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In Brief / Russian drone barrage hits Kyiv region
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India must uphold water-sharing treaty with Pakistan: int’l court
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Iran, US trade fire in first exchange for a month
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In Brief: ALLEGED graft / Sri Lanka’s ex-finance minister arrested
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Insight / Hit by deadly floods, Nepal renews push for Chinese data and early warnings
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Russia supplies Iran with cyber support, spy imagery to hone attacks: Ukraine
The conclusions, reviewed by Reuters, also found that Russian and Iranian hackers were collaborating in the cyber domain.
7 April 2026
'Pakistan's efforts to stop war on Iran reaching critical stage'
Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan says diplomatic push intensifying to prevent further escalation
7 April 2026
Asian airlines trim schedules and carry extra fuel as supplies tighten
European carriers are bracing for similar disruption after Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz cut off nearly 21% of global seaborne jet fuel supply, according to Kpler.
7 April 2026
Who will blink first? Trump wants talks to end war, but Iran won’t easily bow to pressure
Iran’s hardline regime is known to have compromised only twice in its 47-year history. And US president is well known to climb down after issuing outsized threats, all in the name of negotiations
7 April 2026
Trump praises Artemis astronauts: 'You've made history'
Trump ended the call by inviting the astronauts to the White House
7 April 2026
Vietnam parliament elects party chief To Lam as president
After securing another term as the party's general secretary in January, Lam will now take over the number two position in Vietnamese politics -- unifying leadership of the party and state as President Xi Jinping did in neighbouring China
7 April 2026
UN expected to vote on watered-down Hormuz resolution on Tuesday
Iran resists reopening Strait, seeks lasting end to war amid US pressure
7 April 2026
Trump threatens jail for reporter who revealed Iran airman rescue
Trump's remarks at a White House press conference represented a significant escalation of the administration's attacks on the press.
7 April 2026
Iran rejects ceasefire as Trump ramps up threats ahead of deadline
Responding to a US proposal through mediator Pakistan, Tehran rejected a ceasefire and said a permanent end to the war was necessary, the official IRNA news agency reported.
7 April 2026
‘Historic day’: Astronauts farther than any human ever gone
The four astronauts embarking on Nasa’s lunar flyby yesterday became the humans to travel furthest from our planet, as they get set to view areas of the Moon never before seen by the naked eye.
7 April 2026
Nigeria army kills 65 ‘bandits’ in single operation
Nigeria’s military has killed more than 60 members of criminal gangs known as bandits, blamed for most of the country’s mass kidnappings, said a Sunday security report seen by AFP.
7 April 2026
Rohingya genocide: Rights group files complaint against Min Aung Hlaing
Rohingya representatives and a rights group yesterday filed a complaint with Indonesia’s attorney general against Myanmar’s president-elect Min Aung Hlaing for alleged rights abuses against the minority group, the prosecutor’s office in Jakarta told AFP.
7 April 2026
Vietnam parliament convenes to confirm new state leaders
Lawmakers in Vietnam re-elected Tran Thanh Man as chairman of the National Assembly yesterday, giving him a second term as head of the country’s top legislative body.
7 April 2026
US can ‘take out’ entire Iran in a day
President Donald Trump yesterday said the US military can destroy all of Iran’s bridges and power plants in four hours, or even take out the entire country, if Tehran does not meet his deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, as Tehran pushed back against pressure to accept a ceasefire.
7 April 2026
US rescues downed F-15 crew from Iran in $500m mission
The US military has successfully evacuated a pilot and an airman from Iranian territory after an American F-15E Strike Eagle jet was shot down inside the Islamic Republic.
7 April 2026
US airman rescue may mask bid to steal uranium
Iran’s foreign ministry said yesterday that a US operation to rescue a downed airman may have been a cover to “steal enriched uranium” from the Islamic republic.
7 April 2026
Targeting civilian sites ‘illegal’
Striking civilian infrastructure installations during war is illegal, EU chief Antonio Costa said in a social media post yesterday.
7 April 2026
Russian strike kills 3 in Odesa
Russian strikes on the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa killed three people, including a two-year-old child, and cut power to thousands of residents in the early hours of yesterday, officials said.
7 April 2026
Use of Hormuz must be guaranteed
UAE official Anwar Gargash said any settlement of the US-Iran war must guarantee access through the Strait of Hormuz, warning that a deal that fails to rein in Iran’s nuclear programme and its missiles and drones would pave the way for “a more dangerous, more volatile Middle East.”
7 April 2026
Trump orders citizenship lists
The Trump administration is intensifying its campaign against alleged voter fraud, taking new steps toward building a national citizen database and ramping up its hunt for suspected noncitizen voters — all under the banner of “election integrity.”
7 April 2026