Houthi offensive and Makkah Pact / Pakistan in a fix
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Could AI really kill us all?
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NY marks 25th anniv of 9/11
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South Asia / Modi, Putin agree to strengthen ties
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South Asia / Flood reconstruction: Nepal needs $4.78b
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Nepal flood reconstruction bill to be $4.78 billion: Foreign ministry
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Modi, Putin hold talks in New Delhi on trade, defence
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Iranian president arrives in India for BRICS summit: TV broadcast
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Trump rejects Saudi request for strikes on Houthis: Axios
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40 dead after overloaded bus falls into Pak ravine
An overloaded bus veered off a road and fell more than 20 metres into a ravine in western Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 40 people, officials said.
4 July 2026
India clears proposals worth $5.46 billion
India’s Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has cleared purchase proposals worth 520 billion rupees ($5.46 billion) for equipment such as missiles and air defence systems, reports Reuters.
4 July 2026
Iran prepares to bury slain supreme leader with week of mass mourning
Plans funeral events in Tehran, Qom, Mashhad and Iraq
3 July 2026
Murakami says his novels are 'different' from AI literature
Dozens of fans queued to get their hands on the novel as his first book in three years hit shelves in Japan Friday
3 July 2026
Man dies after setting self ablaze outside UN in New York: police
"We are saddened by this tragic and horrific incident, and offer our condolences to his family," A spokesperson for the UN chief, said
3 July 2026
Trump says 'ridiculous' for US to maintain current support for NATO
Trump also insists he wants Europe to take the lead role for its own defense
3 July 2026
India, Japan vow to work closely
India and Japan will work more closely on critical minerals to boost “resilience” in their supply chains, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday, as the two huge Asian economies look to cut dependence on top exporter China.
3 July 2026
Billions flow from EU institutions to Israel
Public institutions in European Union countries are signing profitable contracts with Israeli companies despite Israel’s long track record of war crimes in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, data collected by Statewatch and revealed by Al Jazeera shows.
3 July 2026
‘Positive progress’ made on US-Iran talks
Mediators, Qatar and Pakistan, concluded separate meetings with US and Iranian negotiators in Doha, Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO) said yesterday, adding that “positive progress” was made on issues related to the MoU and the Lake Lucerne Summit.
3 July 2026
Couple scale Empire State Building for apparent proposal
Two people were arrested Wednesday after they climbed up an antenna on the top of the Empire State Building in New York -- and possibly got engaged at the same time.
3 July 2026
Russian barrage: 21 killed, 90 injured in Kyiv
Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles at Ukraine’s capital Kyiv in the early hours yesterday, killing at least 21 people and damaging around 130 buildings in one of the biggest attacks of the war.
3 July 2026
UK PM ‘deeply sorry’ for decades of forced adoptions
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday formally apologised for the forced adoption of an estimated 185,000 babies born to unmarried mothers in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976, calling it “a stain on our history”.
3 July 2026
Trump admin targets ‘birth tourism’ after SC ruling
The Trump administration will intensify its fight against so-called birth tourism, the US attorney general said Wednesday, a day after a Supreme Court ruling upholding birthright citizenship.
3 July 2026
2m military casualties in Ukraine war
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused more than two million military casualties, with Moscow’s forces bearing the brunt of the losses, according to a study published Wednesday by a US think tank.
3 July 2026
Trump wants 'senseless killing' to end in Ukraine: US official
President Donald Trump wants a peace deal to end the "senseless killing" in Ukraine, a US official said Thursday after a massive Russian barrage on Kyiv killed at least 21 people
2 July 2026
WHO declares cruise ship-linked hantavirus outbreak over
The World Health Organization on Thursday declared an end to the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship which sparked international alarm, after the last person left quarantine
2 July 2026
Almost 1.2 mn apply for Spain’s migrant regularization
Latin America accounted for 67 percent of the submissions, with Colombia alone representing 25.9 percent of the total
2 July 2026
Damascus cafe blast kills 5, wounds 16, Syrian state news agency says
Syrian state TV says a bomb had been planted at the cafe
2 July 2026
Eight Thai monks killed after boy drives truck into procession: police
The group of 35 monks and five lay followers were walking along a roadside in the northeastern Mukdahan province during a pilgrimage when the incident occurred
2 July 2026
Searching for Suu Kyi in Myanmar's capital of confusion
Myanmar's deposed leader is under house arrest in the capital Naypyidaw, according to her captors, but exactly where is hard to say in a city experts describe as purpose-built to guard its closed-ranks rulers' secrets
2 July 2026