Botswana secures release of woman on Bangladesh death row
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Driven by faith, activists stand up to fellow Jews to protect Palestinians
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Nepal's young PM faces gravest test after flood catastrophe
2 September 2026
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US military says it completed latest wave of strikes on Iran
2 September 2026
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Tehran, Moscow resist US ‘unilateralism’
2 September 2026
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In Brief: EXAM PAPER LEAK / India SC quashes all FIRs against protesters
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In Brief / Russian strikes kill 12 in Kyiv region
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China-Nepal flood death toll rises to 1,066
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Not guns, criminals responsible for mass shootings: US gun execs
Top executives at US gunmakers testified on Wednesday that criminals, not their products, were responsible for mass shootings, as they faced questions from a US House committee investigating recent massacres in Texas and New York.
27 July 2022
Grain extraction from Ukraine slow amid uncertainties, mines in Black Sea
Shipping companies are not rushing to export millions of tons of trapped grain out of Ukraine, despite a breakthrough deal to provide safe corridors through the Black Sea. That is because explosive mines are drifting in the waters, ship owners are assessing the risks and many still have questions over how the deal will unfold.
27 July 2022
Zelenskyy couples' Vogue photoshoot trending in social media
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena Zelenska recently appeared in a photoshoot for Vogue, which is currently trending on social media.
27 July 2022
US Astronaut Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 jacket sold for $2.7 million
The jacket worn by US astronaut Buzz Aldrin during his 1969 flight to the Moon aboard Apollo 11 was sold at auction for $2.7 million in New York recently, Sotheby's announced.
27 July 2022
Croatians celebrate China-built, largely EU funded “unifying” bridge
The completion of the long-awaited Peljesac bridge that connects the southern coastal regions to the rest of the country is one of the most significant events in Croatian history.
27 July 2022
Trump returns to Washington, says US now “a cesspool of crime”
In a major speech on his first return to Washington since leaving office in 2020, former president Donald Trump on Tuesday (July 26) painted a grim picture of a United States plagued by rising crime, drug addiction, homelessness, and illegal immigrants flooding across the "gaping wound" of the southern border.
27 July 2022
"Citizenship and PM role to Johnson": Ukrainians sign petition
A tongue-in-cheek petition to give outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Ukrainian citizenship and make him the country's prime minister has garnered over 2,500 signatures hours after being put up on Ukraine's official petitions site on Tuesday.
26 July 2022
Sunak-Truss debate ends abruptly as presenter faints on air
A live debate between the two candidates vying to succeed Boris Johnson as British prime minister came to a dramatic end on Tuesday when the presenter fainted.
26 July 2022
Russian strikes pummel Black sea coast
Ukraine said yesterday Russian forces had launched multiple missile strikes at targets on the Black Sea coast near the southern port city of Odessa and in Mykolaiv.
26 July 2022
Saudi prince heads to EU for first time since Khashoggi killing
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was set to embark on a visit to Greece and France yesterday, state media reported, his first Europe trip since the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
26 July 2022
Lanka to restrict fuel imports for next 12 months
Sri Lanka will restrict fuel imports for the next 12 months because of a severe shortage of foreign exchange, its energy minister said yesterday, as the island nation’s new government seeks to find a way out of a crippling economic crisis.
26 July 2022
Church school abuses: Pope ‘begs forgiveness’ in Canada
Pope Francis apologized on Monday to Canada’s native people on their land for the Church’s role in schools where indigenous children were abused, calling their forced cultural assimilation a “deplorable evil” and “disastrous error.”
26 July 2022
Russia to quit International Space Station ‘after 2024’
Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station “after 2024”, the newly-appointed chief of Moscow’s space agency told President Vladimir Putin yesterday.
26 July 2022
Tory leadership Race in UK: Rivals spar over tax, China in first TV debate
Britain’s two prime ministerial contenders have clashed fiercely over tax, China and character in their first head-to-head televised debate, as Rishi Sunak seeks to peg back the frontrunner Liz Truss.
26 July 2022
Black Sea grain shipment centre to open in Turkey
The United Nations and Turkey will open a joint centre with Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul today to coordinate the resumption of grain deliveries across the Black Sea.
26 July 2022
Biden slams Trump for inaction over Capitol riot
President Joe Biden slammed his predecessor Donald Trump Monday for watching his supporters riot for hours on January 6 while police at the US Capitol suffered through a “medieval hell.”
26 July 2022
Russia fines Google $34 million for violating rules
Russia's competition watchdog fined Alphabet's Google $34.2 million (2 billion roubles) recently for abusing its dominant position in the video hosting market, the regulator said in a statement.
26 July 2022
Russia to quit International Space Station
Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station “after 2024”, the newly-appointed chief of Moscow's space agency recently told Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.
26 July 2022
Trump, Pence back at Washington to deliver speeches as rivals
Former President Donald Trump is returning to Washington Tuesday for the first time since leaving office, delivering a speech hours after his former Vice President Mike Pence, a potential 2024 rival, called on the party to stop looking backward.
26 July 2022
Accused Palestinian gunmen's houses demolished by Israeli forces
Israeli troops on Tuesday demolished the houses of two Palestinians accused of killing an Israeli security guard in an attack outside the West Bank settlement of Ariel in April, authorities said.
26 July 2022