Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed elected new OIC secretary-general
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Lake overflows on Nepal-Tibet border, sparking panic and halting rescue
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Norway's King Harald dead at 89
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I watched my village disappear in an instant
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Trump admin in talks for US stake in Venezuela oil: report
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Rescuers scour Nepal flood debris as death toll reaches 469
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Hundreds feared dead in Nepal flash floods
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US military to spend $2.2b to build mini nuke reactors
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MOSCOW VISIT / CIA chief warned Russia against Nato attacks
28 August 2026
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Half of world’s soils are in poor condition: UN
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Europe
Key sensors recovered from Chinese balloon: US military
"Crews have been able to recover significant debris from the site, including all of the priority sensor and electronics pieces identified as well as large sections of the structure," the US military's Northern Command said in a statement
14 February 2023
Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Rescue phase ‘coming to a close’
The phase of the rescue after the major earthquake struck Turkey and Syria a week ago is “coming to a close” with urgency now switching to shelter, food, schooling and psychosocial care, the UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said during a visit to Syria yesterday.
13 February 2023
Russian forces claim gains along Ukraine
Russia said yesterday its troops had pushed forward a few kilometres along the frontlines in Ukraine, while Kyiv said its forces had repelled Russian attacks in several areas.
13 February 2023
Miracle rescues continue
Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble a week after an earthquake struck Turkey and Syria leaving more than 35,000 dead, as the UN warned the toll was set to rise far higher.
13 February 2023
Russia says gas exports dipped in 2022 but oil up
Russian oil exports had increased 7.6 percent over 2022 compared to a year earlier
13 February 2023
China accuses US of sending high-altitude balloons into its airspace
Washington strenuously denied Beijing's charges as "false" and insisted it was China alone that has surreptitiously flown spy balloons, as tensions ramped up between the two superpowers
13 February 2023
Israel strikes Gaza, one killed in West Bank raid
Israel struck a Hamas base in Gaza on Monday in response to a rocket fired from the enclave, while one Palestinian died during what the army called a West Bank raid targeting suspects
13 February 2023
US military shoots down third flying object in three days
President Joe Biden ordered a F-16 fighter to shoot down the latest object "out of abundance of caution," a senior administration official said
13 February 2023
Ukraine ‘holding defence in Donetsk’
Ukraine’s forces hold defence along the frontline in Donetsk, including the besieged town of Bakhmut, with the fiercest battles raging for the cities of Vuhledar and Maryinka, Kyiv’s top military commander said on Saturday.
12 February 2023
IS attack in central Syria kills 11
At least 11 people, mostly civilians, were killed in a central Syria attack blamed on the Islamic State group, a war monitor said yesterday.
12 February 2023
US jet shoots down ‘object’ over Canada
A US fighter jet shot down an unidentified object over Canada on Saturday, the second such incident in North American skies since the dramatic downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon a week ago.
12 February 2023
Raisi to visit China
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will head to China within days for a three-day visit aimed at strengthening economic cooperation, state media reported yesterday.
12 February 2023
Netanyahu pledges more action against Palestinian attackers
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday promised a stronger Israeli response in dealing with a spate of Palestinian attacks in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, as pressure swelled within his right-wing government to employ more severe tactics.
12 February 2023
Valentine’s Day or Cow Hug Day?
For centuries, cows have been considered sacred by India’s majority Hindu population, a symbol of both the Earth and the divine.
12 February 2023
Hope, resources in short supply
As Syria’s earthquake rescue efforts near the one week mark, an unsettling silence blankets the area as a search dog sniffs around a flattened home in the coastal town of Jableh.
12 February 2023
Bolsonaro says he plans to return to Brazil in coming weeks
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said late Saturday that he plans to return to Brazil “in the coming weeks” after arriving in the United States in December.
12 February 2023
Turkey, Syria quake death toll nears 30,000
The UN yesterday denounced a failure to get desperately needed aid to war-torn regions of Syria, while warning that the death toll of nearly 30,000 from an earthquake that also devastated Turkey could at least double.
12 February 2023
Suspected jihadists kill 10 Niger soldiers: ministry
At least ten soldiers died in an ambush by a group of “armed terrorists” in southwestern Niger, close to the Mali border, the defence ministry said yesterday.
12 February 2023
Israeli troops kill Palestinian boy aged 14
Israeli troops yesterday killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy during a raid on a flashpoint town in the occupied West Bank that led to clashes with gunmen, medical officials and witnesses said.
12 February 2023
How India’s move backfired
The cow is "the giver of all, providing riches to humanity" due to its "nourishing nature," said the agency, a statutory body that advises India's Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
12 February 2023