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Russia begins three days of nuclear drills
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20 May 2026, 00:00 AM Russian invasion of Ukraine
US approves $4.2bn in helicopter sales to South Korea
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20 May 2026, 00:00 AM USA
Ebola Virus: WHO worried at ‘scale’ of outbreak
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20 May 2026, 00:00 AM World

Musk, president? Trump says 'not happening'

The US Constitution requires that a president be a natural-born US citizen.
23 December 2024, 09:06 AM

Luxury Western goods line Russian stores, three years into sanctions

The picture is a far cry from the West's claims that its sanctions would collapse the Russian economy and cut it off from the outside world.
23 December 2024, 08:56 AM

Syria's new leader says all weapons to come under 'state control'

Ankara-backed rebels played a key role in supporting Sharaa's Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which headed a rebel alliance that seized Damascus on December 8, toppling longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.
23 December 2024, 04:20 AM

Brazil plane crash killed family of 10

The plane, a Piper Cheyenne 400 turboprop, was being flown by a businessman named Luiz Claudio Salgueiro Galeazzi, police confirmed to AFP, and the passengers were all family members of his.
23 December 2024, 04:10 AM

At least 3,100 Native Americans died in US boarding schools: report

From 1819 until the 1970s, the United States ran hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country to involuntarily assimilate Native children into European settler culture, including forced conversion to Christianity.
23 December 2024, 04:04 AM

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to sell Foxtel to Britain's DAZN for $2.1 bln

News Corp will gain a board seat and hold a 6% stake in DAZN, a London-headquartered global streaming platform available in North America, Europe, and Asia and backed by Ukranian-born billionaire Len Blavatnik.
23 December 2024, 03:51 AM

Israeli strikes kill 28 in Gaza Strip

Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 28 Palestinians, eight of them at a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City, medics said, as the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north.
22 December 2024, 18:56 PM

Suspect held on murder charges

A man suspected of ploughing a car through crowds at a German Christmas market in an attack that killed five people and injured scores faces multiple charges of murder and attempted murder, police said yesterday.
22 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Syria won’t negatively interfere in Lebanon

Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Julani, told Lebanese Druze leaders yesterday that his country would not negatively interfere in Lebanon and would respect its neighbour’s sovereignty.
22 December 2024, 18:00 PM

US fighter shot down over Red Sea

The US military said it mistakenly shot down one of its own fighter aircraft over the Red Sea early yesterday, forcing both pilots to eject.
22 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Putin vows ‘destruction’ on Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday vowed to bring more “destruction” to Ukraine in retaliation for a drone attack on the central Russian city of Kazan a day earlier.
22 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Trump threatens to take back control of Panama Canal

Incoming US president Donald Trump on Saturday slammed what he called unfair fees for US ships passing through the Panama Canal and threatened to demand control of the waterway be returned to US.
22 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Gaza rescuers say Israeli strikes kill 28

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes overnight and early Sunday killed at least 28 Palestinians, including at one family's home and at a school building the military said was used by Hamas
22 December 2024, 11:19 AM

Helicopter crashes into Turkish hospital, killing four

Four people died when a helicopter crashed into a hospital in southwestern Turkey on Sunday, the provincial governor said, blaming the accident on thick fog
22 December 2024, 09:49 AM

China says it 'firmly opposes' US military aid to Taiwan

"This move gravely infringes on China's sovereignty and security interests," Beijing's foreign ministry said in a statement, adding it "firmly opposes this action".
22 December 2024, 06:01 AM

Trump threatens to take back control of Panama Canal

The Panama Canal, which was completed by the United States in 1914, was returned to the Central American country under a 1977 deal signed by Democratic president Jimmy Carter.
22 December 2024, 04:06 AM

38 die in bus accident in southeastern Brazil

At least 38 people were killed in a bus crash in southeastern Brazil on Saturday, officials said, in what President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called a "terrible tragedy"
22 December 2024, 04:05 AM

A fentanyl antidote is saving lives - but isn't ending the fentanyl crisis

The lifesaving nasal-spray medicine is everywhere in the 10 or more Hilltop “trap” houses where users come to buy and take fentanyl. Distributed free by local officials, supplies are abundant at the house where Sleaze smokes fentanyl and works security in exchange for drugs.
22 December 2024, 03:53 AM

Syrian Kurdish groups on the back foot as power balance shifts

The seismic change in Syria is expected to yield deeper Turkish sway just as a change of US administration is raising questions over how long Washington will keep backing the country's Kurdish-led forces.
22 December 2024, 03:48 AM

Yemen rebels launch missile attack on Israel’s Tel Aviv

A missile fired from Yemen by Iran-backed Huthi rebels struck Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv before dawn yesterday, wounding 16 people in the second such attack in days.
21 December 2024, 19:13 PM