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18 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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18 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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Iran eyes new power source under Hormuz
18 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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WHO declares Ebola emergency in DR Congo
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Hamas rejects Israeli PM’s ‘threats’
Hamas yesterday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “threats” to make the Palestinian group pay after he accused it of violating the ceasefire by not returning the hostage Shiri Bibas.
21 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Arab leaders gather in Saudi Arabia to hash out Gaza plan
A source close to the Saudi government told AFP that Arab leaders would discuss 'a reconstruction plan to counter Trump's plan for Gaza'
21 February 2025, 10:43 AM
Trump hits out at US agency AP as 'radical left' media
The 180-year-old media organization has long been a pillar of US journalism and provides news to print, TV and radio outlets across the country
21 February 2025, 09:36 AM
Trump seeks to reshape Asia's energy supplies with US gas
When President Donald Trump sat down to lunch with his Japanese counterpart this month, talk turned quickly to how Tokyo could help realise a decades-old proposal to unlock gas in Alaska and ship it to US allies in Asia.
21 February 2025, 04:43 AM
US sends migrants from Guantanamo to Venezuela
The United States deported 177 migrants from its military base in Guantanamo, Cuba to their homeland in Venezuela Thursday, the latest sign of cooperation between the long-feuding governments.
21 February 2025, 03:59 AM
‘Tone down’ US criticism
The White House continued to press Kyiv yesterday with its efforts to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, urging it to rein in criticism and quickly sign a minerals deal pushed by US President Donald Trump.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Six elephants dead after being struck by train in Sri Lanka
A Sri Lankan passenger train derailed yesterday after smashing into a family of elephants, with no passengers injured but six animals killed in the island’s worst such wildlife accident, police said.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM
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