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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World
Iranian president arrives in India for BRICS summit: TV broadcast
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World
Trump rejects Saudi request for strikes on Houthis: Axios
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World
Kim Jong Un wants North Koreans to have more (state-sanctioned) fun
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World
Putin reaches India for BRICS summit coloured by wars
11 September 2026
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World
US braces for inflation report that may push Fed to hike rates
11 September 2026
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United States
25 years of 9/11 / Trump’s Iran war echoes post-attack ‘forever wars’
11 September 2026
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World
Makkah pact / Expansion not at this stage: Pakistan
11 September 2026
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World
Asean envoy to Myanmar in talks with junta for visit
The Brunei diplomat appointed by a Southeast Asian regional bloc as its special envoy to Myanmar said he is still negotiating
4 September 2021
US judge rejects bid for patent by AI ‘inventor’
A US judge has ruled that artificial intelligence can’t get a patent for its creations, ruling that such a privilege is reserved for
4 September 2021
Thai PM Prayuth survives no confidence vote
Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and five cabinet ministers comfortably survived a vote of no confidence in
4 September 2021
Quotes of the day
Washington must understand that it has no other choice but to abandon its addiction to
4 September 2021
Facebook mistakenly labels black men ‘primates’
Facebook on Friday said it disabled its topic recommendation feature after it mistook Black men for “primates” in video at the social network.
4 September 2021
Biden orders release of secret 9/11 documents
US President Joe Biden on Friday ordered declassification over the next six months of still secret documents from the government investigation into the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
4 September 2021
44 dead as flash floods hit US northeast
Flash flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida killed at least 44 people in four northeastern US states overnight into Thursday, including several who perished in basements during the “historic” weather event officials blamed on climate change.
3 September 2021
NZ Knife Rampage: IS-inspired attacker shot dead, 6 hurt
An Islamic State-inspired attacker injured six people in a New Zealand supermarket knife rampage yesterday, before being shot dead by undercover police officers who had him under round-the-clock surveillance.
3 September 2021
Turning household waste into electricity
Until four years ago, garbage disposal meant one thing to Savitri Bai Patil - stinking, putrefied heaps of trash spread around her neighbourhood in Pune, in western India.
3 September 2021
This day in history
476 - Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed by Odoacer, a German barbarian who proclaims himself king of Italy.
3 September 2021
Quotes of the day
The sooner the Taliban will enter the family of civilised people, so to speak, the easier it will be to contact, communicate, and somehow influence and ask questions.
3 September 2021
US grounds Virgin Galactic after space flight ‘mishap’
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday said it was grounding space flights by Virgin Galactic while it investigates why the company’s July mission carrying Richard Branson deviated from its planned trajectory.
3 September 2021
New Zealand police kill 'extremist' who stabbed six in supermarket
New Zealand police on Friday shot and killed a knife-wielding "extremist" who was known to authorities, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, after he stabbed and wounded at least six people in a supermarket.
3 September 2021
Ida's record rain floods New York-area homes, subways; at least 44 dead
Flash flooding killed at least 44 people in four Northeastern states as remnants of Hurricane Ida unleashed torrential rains that swept away cars, submerged New York City subway lines and grounded airline flights, officials said on Thursday.
3 September 2021
Ukraine’s Zelensky seeks Biden’s support on Nato
President Joe Biden assured Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday that the United States opposes “Russian aggression” but he showed no sign of moving on requests to open Nato to the eastern European country.
2 September 2021
Countries eye UN deal to rein in plastic pollution
The European Union and other countries yesterday called for negotiations towards a legally-binding agreement to reduce plastic pollution, including the microplastics infesting oceans and waterways.
2 September 2021
This day in history
1783 - Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America.
2 September 2021
More News
The United States has thrown away at least 15.1 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines since March 1, according to a report by NBC News.
2 September 2021
Italy's Draghi says still hopes to hold a G20 summit on Afghanistan
Italy still hopes to hold an ad hoc summit of the Group of 20 major economies on Afghanistan, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Thursday, adding that any such meeting would take place after this month's U.N. General Assembly.
2 September 2021
65 dead as fighting for Yemen's Marib flares anew
Sixty-five combatants have been killed in fighting after Yemen's Huthi rebels renewed an offensive on Marib, the last government stronghold in the country's oil-rich north, a military official said Thursday.
2 September 2021