Himalayas approaching tipping point, millions of livelihoods at stake
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Beijing bans drone possession, storage from Nov 15
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Trump dismisses report China entities helped Iran before attack that killed US troops
14 September 2026
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Sweden's centre-left bloc leads close election against right-wing government
14 September 2026
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World
Is it possible to slow down the development of AI?
14 September 2026
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World
Diplomacy stumbles with postponement of meeting on Strait of Hormuz proposal
14 September 2026
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Polls open in Philippine Muslim enclave after deadly shooting
14 September 2026
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Strait of Hormuz: Fresh attack on ship fans fears over oil supplies
14 September 2026
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Middle East
UK PM Johnson married fiancée in secret ceremony on Saturday
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancée Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday, his office said on Sunday, confirming media reports.
29 May 2021
Kidnappers free 14 Nigerian students in northwest Kaduna state
Kidnappers have released the remaining 14 students who had been held captive after being abducted last month from a northern Nigerian university, a senior member of the teaching staff said on Saturday.
29 May 2021
Russia confirms second loan for Belarus, raises issue of detained citizen
Russia will move ahead with a second $500 million loan to Belarus next month, following talks between the two countries' leaders amid uproar in the West over the grounding of a passenger jet in Minsk and the arrest of a dissident blogger.
29 May 2021
Covid storm engulfs Everest
Mount Everest guide Buddhi Bahadur Lama has spent days isolated in a tent after testing positive for coronavirus, as an outbreak that climbers say
29 May 2021
Republicans block probe of US Capitol riot
Republicans in the US Senate on Friday derailed a bipartisan inquiry into the deadly assault on the Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters, despite a
29 May 2021
Roadside bomb kills three Afghan university teachers
A roadside bomb hit a bus carrying university staff in northern Afghanistan yesterday, killing three teachers and wounding 15 others, police said on
29 May 2021
NUG to ‘demolish’ junta
A shadow government in Myanmar seeking to reverse the February 1 coup has joined forces with a rebel group to “demolish” junta rule, it said Saturday.
29 May 2021
US nuclear secrets exposed in Europe
US troops charged with guarding nuclear weapons in Europe used popular education websites to create flash cards, exposing their exact locations and top-secret security protocols, according to the investigative site Bellingcat Friday.
29 May 2021
CoronaVac ‘reduces mortality by 97pc’
The CoronaVac vaccine reduces coronavirus mortality by 97 percent, according to early results of the immunization campaign in Uruguay, which relies heavily on the Chinese jab.
29 May 2021
Lanka faces marine disaster
Sri Lanka faces an unprecedented pollution crisis as waves of plastic waste from a burning container ship hit the coast and threaten to devastate the
29 May 2021
Roadside bomb kills three university teachers in Afghanistan-police
A roadside bomb hit a bus carrying university staff in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing three teachers and wounding 15 others, police said on Saturday.
29 May 2021
Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft set to launch to China's space station -state media
China will launch the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft to the country's space station at 8:55 PM Beijing time (1255 GMT) on Saturday, the China National Space Administration said, according to state media on Saturday.
29 May 2021
Ex-premier’s graft case a test of justice in oil-rich Kuwait
Where is Sheikh Jaber? Kuwait was abuzz with the question as citizens on social media demanded to know the whereabouts of their 79-year-old former prime minister. He’d been ordered detained pending trial in an unprecedented move last month over the alleged embezzlement of millions of dollars from a military aid fund.
29 May 2021
China, U.S. can find common ground on tariff exclusions, Chinese think tank says
The Biden administration is unlikely to remove tariffs on Chinese goods in the short term, but China and the United States might find a middle ground by increasing tariff exclusions as a way to reduce tensions, a Chinese think-tank said.
29 May 2021
Remains of 215 children found at former indigenous school site in Canada
The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday.
29 May 2021
‘They were just children’: New York Times runs frontpage collage of Gaza’s youngest victims
The New York Times, on May 28, published a list of children killed in the latest Israel-Gaza flare-up of violence.
29 May 2021
Brazil on drought alert, faces worst dry spell in 91 years
Brazil's government agencies warned of droughts this week as the country faces its worst dry spell in 91 years, increasing fears of energy rationing, hitting hydroelectric power generation and agriculture while raising the risk of Amazon fires.
28 May 2021
Putin offers Belarus leader support against West in Ryanair plane standoff
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday offered his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko support in his standoff with the West over his handling of the grounding of a passenger jet and the arrest of a dissident blogger.
28 May 2021
‘Asean opposes arms embargo’
Nine Southeast Asian countries have urged the United Nations not to endorse a freeze on arms sales to Myanmar, according to a report from Benar News.
28 May 2021
‘Time to change course’
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen yesterday warned Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko “it is time to change course” as her executive held out the promise of a three-billion-euro support package if he leaves power.
28 May 2021