World 'not on track' to meet biodiversity goals ahead of UN talks
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In pictures: Eclipse craze grips Spain, Iceland
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Trump's spokesperson Karoline Leavitt to step down
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After Trump's Turkey ruse, a look at past secret presidential trips
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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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World
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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UN sounds alarm over aid as Israel pushes assault into Rafah
The United Nations warned on Friday that aid for the Gaza Strip could grind to a halt in days, as Israeli troops took their ground war with Palestinian fighters into the crowded city of Rafah, a key aid corridor for the famine-threatened strip
10 May 2024
More than 100,000 people have fled Gaza's Rafah: UN
More than 100,000 people have fled Rafah in recent days, the United Nations said Friday, with the southern Gaza city under threat of a full-scale Israeli ground invasion
10 May 2024
Kejriwal gets SC interim bail till June 1
India's Supreme Court today gave Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal interim bail till June 1 for campaigning in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections
10 May 2024
Can UNGA deliver for Palestinians?
After a US veto foiled the Palestinians' drive for full UN membership, the General Assembly is expected today to grant them some additional rights in the global body -- a symbolic win that has already irked Israel
10 May 2024
Putin reappoints Mishustin as Russia's PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed the reappointment on Friday of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, a technocrat who has helped him through the war in Ukraine and the economic challenges wrought by Western sanctions over Moscow's invasion
10 May 2024
Chinese companies hit with US trade restrictions over spy balloon incident
The Biden administration added 37 Chinese entities to a trade restriction list on Thursday, including some for allegedly supporting the spy balloon that flew over the United States last year, heightening tensions between Beijing and Washington
10 May 2024
Israel due to get billions of dollars more in US weapons despite Biden pause
Billions of dollars worth of US weaponry remains in the pipeline for Israel, despite the delay of one shipment of bombs and a review of others by President Joe Biden's administration, concerned their use in an assault could wreak more devastation on Palestinian civilians
10 May 2024
Hunter Biden loses bid to dismiss gun charges, clearing way for June trial
A federal appeals court panel rejected a bid by US President Joe Biden's son to dismiss criminal gun charges, clearing the way for Hunter Biden's June 3 trial, a first for the child of a sitting president
10 May 2024
Israelis ready to fight with their fingernails, Netanyahu says in veiled Biden rebuff
Israelis are ready to fight with their "fingernails", Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday in a thinly veiled rebuff to US President Joe Biden's warning that arms supplies could be withheld over a planned operation in Gaza
10 May 2024
Zelensky fires bodyguard chief after assassination plot foiled
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday fired the head of the department responsible for his personal protection after two of its officers were detained this week over an alleged assassination plot
10 May 2024
Thwarted by US, Palestinians look to UN General Assembly
After a US veto foiled the Palestinians' drive for full UN membership, the General Assembly is expected on Friday to grant them some additional rights in the global body -- a symbolic win that has already irked Israel
10 May 2024
Two Paris police officers wounded after man shot them inside police station
A man shot and wounded two police officers in Paris after he got hold of one of the officer's weapons while he was being held at a police station, said Paris police chief Laurent Nunez on Friday, confirming earlier media reports
10 May 2024
US satisfied so far with India Sikh plot probe, but stresses 'red line'
The US is satisfied so far with India's moves to ensure accountability in alleged assassination plots against Sikh activists, but many steps are still needed, the US ambassador to India said on Thursday, calling it a "red line for America" for which there must be consequences
9 May 2024
‘Our lives have completely stopped’
Displaced Palestinian Marwan al-Masri, sheltering in Rafah, said “Our lives have completely stopped” since Israeli tanks and troops entered the city’s east, sending desperate people fleeing north in the besieged territory.
9 May 2024
Russia agrees to remove some troops from Armenia
Russia has agreed to remove some of its troops and border guards from Armenia, the Kremlin said yesterday, after months of spiralling tensions between the two ex-Soviet allies.
9 May 2024
Biden threatens to withhold arms supply to Israel
Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded areas of Rafah yesterday, Palestinian residents said, after US President Joe Biden vowed to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces launch a major invasion of the southern Gaza city.
9 May 2024
Biden threatens to withhold arms supply to Israel
Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded areas of Rafah yesterday, Palestinian residents said, after US President Joe Biden vowed to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces launch a major invasion of the southern Gaza city.
9 May 2024
New Iceland plant scales up CO2 removal from air
A Swiss start-up on Wednesday unveiled its second plant in Iceland sucking carbon dioxide from the air and stocking it underground, scaling up its capacity tenfold with the aim of eliminating millions of tonnes of CO2 by 2030.
9 May 2024
Iran frees seven crew from Portuguese ship seized in Gulf
Iran yesterday freed seven of the 25 crew on a Portuguese-flagged ship seized in the Gulf on April 13, Portugal’s foreign ministry said.
9 May 2024
West risking global conflict
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday accused the West of risking a global conflict and said no one would be allowed to threaten the world’s biggest nuclear power as Russia marked the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.
9 May 2024