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Gaza flotilla: 211 activists ‘kidnapped’ by Israel
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Press freedom at lowest level in 25 years: RSF
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Mamdani calls on King Charles to return Koh-i-Noor
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Putin, Trump discuss Iran, Ukraine in phone call
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Israeli strikes kill 4 more in Gaza
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1 May 2026, 00:00 AM World
287 nominations for Nobel Peace Prize
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1 May 2026, 00:00 AM World

Trump’s support for Taiwan ‘very strong’

US support for Taiwan is “very strong”, Taipei’s security chief said yesterday, as the self-ruled island seeks to head off President Donald Trump’s threats of hefty tariffs on its semiconductor chips.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM

100 migrants moved to Panama jungle facility

A group of nearly 100 migrants deported from the US to Panama last week has been moved from a hotel in the capital to the Darien jungle region in the south of the country, Panama’s government said on Wednesday.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM

93 bodies found in mass graves in Libya

A total of 93 bodies have now been recovered from two mass graves found in Libya during raids on human trafficking networks, the United Nations said Wednesday.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM

BJP’s Rekha Gupta sworn in as new Delhi CM

A member of India’s ruling Hindu-nationalist party was sworn in yesterday as chief minister of Delhi after an election landslide handed it control of the capital for the first time in decades.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Iran executed 975 in ‘horrifying’ 2024 escalation

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a “horrifying escalation” of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said yesterday.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Britain, France eye ‘reassurance force’ for Kyiv

Britain and France are spearheading attempts to create a European “reassurance force” of fewer than 30,000 troops to protect Ukraine after any ceasefire deal with Russia, UK media reported yesterday.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Israeli fire kills 3 Palestinians

Three Palestinians were killed on Wednesday evening by Israeli forces in the al-Faraa camp near Tubas in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian state news agency WAFA reported.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Will work with Trump as ‘long as helpful’: Musk

Elon Musk has said he would work with US President Donald Trump for as long as he “can be helpful,” as the pair dismissed concerns over possible conflicts of interest due to the tech tycoon’s work with the White House.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Trump wants to be 'emperor of the world'

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva today accused Donald Trump of wanting to "become an emperor of the world"
20 February 2025, 16:05 PM

Hamas set to hand over bodies of four Israeli hostages

The transfer of the bodies is the first by Hamas since its October 7, 2023 attack on Israel triggered the war
20 February 2025, 07:58 AM

Trump calls for takeover of governance of Washington, D.C.

"I think that we should govern District of Columbia," Trump told reporters on Air Force Once.
20 February 2025, 07:53 AM

Trump expects visit from Chinese President Xi without giving timeline

Xi last travelled to the US in November 2023, in his fifth visit to the country as Chinese president
20 February 2025, 05:01 AM

Apple reveals its version of budget AI: the $599 iPhone 16e

The iPhone 16e will be powered by the A18 chip used in more expensive models launched in September 2024
20 February 2025, 03:05 AM

US appeals court rejects Trump's bid to curtail birthright citizenship

It was the first time an appellate court had weighed in on Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, whose fate may ultimately be decided by the US Supreme Court.
20 February 2025, 02:44 AM

Egypt announces first discovery of pharaoh's tomb in more than 100 years

Located west of the Valley of the Kings, Thutmose II's tomb was the last lost tomb of the kings of Egypt's 18th dynasty
20 February 2025, 02:29 AM

Trump tells Zelenskiy to move fast for peace or lose Ukraine

Calls Zelenskiy 'a dictator without elections'
19 February 2025, 18:37 PM

Trump blames Ukraine over war with Russia

US President Donald Trump has effectively blamed Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky for Russia’s invasion, as French President Emmanuel Macron prepares for another round of talks with EU and non-European partners.
19 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Zelensky a dictator: Trump

US President Donald Trump yesterday denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “a dictator without elections” and said he had better move fast to secure a peace or he would have no country left.
19 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Gunmen identify, kill 7 Punjabi travellers in Pakistan: govt official

Security forces have been battling sectarian, ethnic and separatist violence for decades in impoverished but mineral-rich Balochistan
19 February 2025, 07:56 AM

Major risks loom as Trump upends US Russia policy

Washington's approach changed dramatically with Tuesday's initial meeting between US and Russian negotiators.
19 February 2025, 07:19 AM