In pictures: Eclipse craze grips Spain, Iceland
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Trump's spokesperson Karoline Leavitt to step down
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Colombia president says earthquake death toll hits 265
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Half of Afghan women rarely leave home: UN
13 August 2026
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Colombia declares three days mourning for quake victims
13 August 2026
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Putin threatens to seize EU vessels if bloc targets Russia’s
13 August 2026
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Ex-Chinese PM Zhu Rongji dies aged 97
13 August 2026
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Border peace key to ties with China: India
13 August 2026
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Mecca defence pact / Erdogan eyes expansion, courts Egypt
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Opposition slams Modi for anti-Muslim remarks
India’s main opposition party yesterday condemned Prime Minister Narendra Modi for anti-Muslim comments in election campaign speeches that have heightened concerns over sectarian tensions in the world’s biggest democracy.
16 May 2024
Slovak PM ‘able to speak’ after shooting
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was speaking yesterday but tired and still in a “really difficult condition” a day after being shot multiple times, the president-elect said after visiting his ally.
16 May 2024
Sudan facing ‘inferno’ of violence, aid holdups: UN
Residents of conflict-hit Sudan are “trapped in an inferno of brutal violence” and increasingly at risk of famine due to the rainy season and blocked aid, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for the country warned Wednesday.
16 May 2024
Democratic divide hurting Biden: poll
Democrats are deeply divided over President Joe Biden’s handling of both the offensive in Gaza and the US campus protests against it, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found, fraying the coalition that he relied on four years ago to defeat Republican Donald Trump.
16 May 2024
Monet painting fetches $35 million at New York auction
A Monet sold for nearly $35 million at auction Wednesday evening, Sotheby's said, marking a solid start to New York's spring art sales
16 May 2024
Xi, Putin hail ties as 'stabilising' force in chaotic world
Leaders Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin framed their nations' ties as a stabilising force in a chaotic world as they met yesterday in Beijing
16 May 2024
Garuda Indonesia flight makes emergency landing after engine fire
A jetliner taking 468 people from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia made an emergency landing Wednesday due to an engine fire, the Garuda Indonesia airline said, in the latest incident in the archipelago's poor safety record
16 May 2024
Putin meets Xi in Beijing seeking greater support for war effort
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Thursday with counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing as he seeks greater support from China for his war effort in Ukraine and his isolated economy
16 May 2024
Slovak PM no longer in life-threatening condition after being shot, minister says
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is no longer in a life-threatening condition after he was shot in an assassination attempt when leaving a government meeting on Wednesday, a government minister said
16 May 2024
Swiss nursery lets robot do the talking
Sat in a circle on the nursery floor, a group of Swiss three-year-olds ask a robot called Nao questions about giraffes and broccoli.
15 May 2024
Assassination Bid: Slovak PM suffers life-threatening injuries
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico suffered life-threatening injuries when he was shot and wounded in an attempted assassination yesterday, the government office said.
15 May 2024
Israel-Hamas gun battle intensifies
Israeli troops fought Hamas members across Gaza yesterday, including in the southern city of Rafah that had been a refuge for civilians, in an upsurge of the more than seven-month offensive that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.
15 May 2024
Biden, Trump agree to debate June 27 on CNN
US President Joe Biden and Republican rival Donald Trump yesterday accepted an invitation from CNN to host the candidates’ first 2024 debate on June 27, setting up a high-stakes clash.
15 May 2024
Ex-Pak PM Imran Khan gets bail but can’t leave jail
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was granted bail in Islamabad yesterday on land corruption charges but will have to stay in jail to serve time in two other cases, his lawyer said.
15 May 2024
India issues first set of citizenship certificates to 14
India yesterday granted citizenship to a first batch of 14 people under a controversial law that has been criticised for discriminating against Muslims, midway through general elections in which religious divisions have taken centre stage.
15 May 2024
Myanmar air strike injures 20 at clinic
A Myanmar military air strike on a medical clinic wounded around 20 people in western Rakhine state, according to an ethnic armed group, a resident and local media yesterday.
15 May 2024
Russian forces take control of 3 settlements
Russian forces have taken control of two more settlements in Ukraine’s north-east Kharkiv region and one in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, the defence ministry said yesterday, building on a run of incremental gains that have alarmed Kyiv.
15 May 2024
Women, children make up 56pc of Gaza dead: UN
Women and children make up at least 56 percent of the thousands killed in the Gaza offensive, the UN said Tuesday, amid controversy over the toll based on numbers from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.
15 May 2024
Slovakia PM shot, fighting 'life-threatening' injuries
Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico was on Wednesday shot multiple times and rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a cabinet meeting, officials said, in an attack condemned by EU chiefs.
15 May 2024
Iran port deal: India downplays US sanctions threat
India's foreign minister has said his company will work to communicate the benefits of a strategic port project in Iran after the United States said Indian firms working on the project risked sanctions
15 May 2024