US aircraft carrier departs Thailand after port call
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'The flood is coming': How a Nepal principal saved 900 students
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Trump envoys in Moscow, with ‘an idea of peace’
6 September 2026
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Retaliation for missile attacks
6 September 2026
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Hotel crackdown in Kolkata puts Bangladeshi patients in a fix
6 September 2026
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India
Nepali woman rescued alive from buried home 10 days after flood
5 September 2026
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Rescuers continue grim search for Nepal flood survivors
5 September 2026
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Nepal flood disaster puts climate justice under spotlight
5 September 2026
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Asia
Africa bigger, US smaller - UN adopts new map
5 September 2026
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Japan restarts world's biggest nuclear plant again
A glitch with an alarm in January forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster
9 February 2026
US challenges Chinese control in race for African minerals
Washington's focus is on Zambia, Guinea and Democratic Republic of Congo.
9 February 2026
US Congress to depose Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell
Maxwell, currently serving 20 years in prison for trafficking girls to the disgraced financier Epstein, will face questions from prison via videolink
9 February 2026
Hong Kong sentences pro-democracy mogul Jimmy Lai to 20 years in jail
Rights groups condemned a 20-year prison term handed to Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai on Monday, calling it "effectively a death sentence" and a grave injustice.
9 February 2026
Japan PM Takaichi basks in historic election triumph
The outcome gives Japan's first female premier a strong mandate to implement her conservative agenda
9 February 2026
51 kidnapped, 3 killed in Nigeria attacks
At least 51 people have been kidnapped and three killed in attacks over the past three days in four different villages in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna State, security forces said Saturday.
9 February 2026
Thailand votes after 3 leaders in two years
Thais voted yesterday in an election where progressive reformists were the runaway opinion poll leaders but the incumbent conservative prime minister is expected to end up retaining his position, extending the country’s political stand-off.
9 February 2026
Japan’s Takaichi set for big election win: exit poll
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s party was set to secure a big majority in Japan’s lower house in an election yesterday, public broadcaster NHK forecast, based on exit polls.
9 February 2026
Iran defies US threats
Iran will never surrender the right to enrich uranium, even if war “is imposed on us”, its foreign minister said yesterday, defying pressure from Washington.
9 February 2026
Hamas leader vows no arms handover
A senior Hamas leader said yesterday that the Palestinian Islamist movement would not surrender its weapons nor accept foreign intervention in Gaza, pushing back against US and Israeli demands.
9 February 2026
Iran sentences Nobel peace laureate Mohammadi to six years in prison: lawyer
To be exiled for two years to the city of Khosf in the eastern province of South Khorasan, says lawyer
8 February 2026
Former French minister Lang resigns from Arab World Institute over Epstein ties
France’s Financial Prosecutor is investigating Jack Lang and his daughter for alleged tax fraud
8 February 2026
North China factory explosion kills 8
The company is located in Shanyin County, about 400 kilometres west of Beijing
8 February 2026
Washington Post CEO out after sweeping job cuts
The Washington Post said Saturday its CEO and publisher Will Lewis was leaving effective immediately
8 February 2026
Thailand votes after three leaders in two years
Voting opened Sunday in a Thai general election pitting the popular reformists who came first last time against the conservative who ended up as prime minister
8 February 2026
Iran nods to more nuclear talks, sets redlines
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi yesterday said he hoped talks with the United States would resume soon, while reiterating Tehran’s red lines and warning against any American attack.
8 February 2026
Make our Epstein testimony public
Former US president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton are calling for their congressional testimony on ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to be held publicly to prevent Republicans from politicising the issue.
8 February 2026
US lifts 25% tariff on Indian goods
US President Donald Trump moved Friday to lift an additional 25 percent tariff he imposed on goods from India over its purchases of Russian oil -- a step to implement a trade deal announced this week.
8 February 2026
US pressing rivals to end war by June
The United States wants Ukraine and Russia to end their nearly four-year war by June, and has offered to host talks between the two sides in Florida next week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
8 February 2026
Trump refuses to apologise for racist clip of Obamas
President Donald Trump refused to apologise Friday for a video posted on his social media account depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys, though he said he condemned the post as the White House shifted the blame to staff.
8 February 2026