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U.S. President Donald Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison

Alcatraz Island is now a major tourist site that is operate by the National Park Service and is a designated National Historic Landmark

5 May 2025 12:59 pm
World Bank executive director Parameswaran Iyer to represent India at IMF board

Parameswaran Iyer's nomination was necessitated to fill a vacancy created with the termination of services of K.V. Subramanian as the executive director at the IMF

5 May 2025 12:17 pm
Trump blasts Mexicos Sheinbaum for rejecting offer to send US troops into Mexico to fight cartels

Ms. Sheinbaum added that she told Mr. Trump their two countries can work together, but you in your territory and us in ours.

5 May 2025 9:03 am
UNSC to hold closed consultations on India-Pakistan situation today

Islamabad equested closed consultations on the tensions between the two countries and the Greek Presidency has scheduled the meeting for May 5 in the afternoon

5 May 2025 8:13 am
Donald Trump announces 100% tariff for movies produced outside U.S.

Neither Mr. Lutnick nor Mr. Trump provided any details on the implementation. It was not immediately clear whether the move would target production companies, foreign or American, producing films overseas

5 May 2025 7:06 am
U.K. police release 14 children held after boy dies in fire

Northumbria police said late on May 3 that 11 boys and three girls aged 11 to 14 had been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter

5 May 2025 3:14 am
Pakistan to brief U.N. Security Council on Indias aggressive actions: Pak Foreign Office

Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar directed Pakistan's UN Permanent Representative Asim Iftikhar to take immediate steps to convene a meeting of the Security Council

5 May 2025 1:14 am
Chinas Xi Jinping to pay official visit to Russia, alongside Victory Day celebrations

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia May 710 at President Vladimir Putins invitation, the Kremlin confirmed Sunday

4 May 2025 2:14 pm
Australias re-elected Prime Minister says voters chose unity over division

Australias re-elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday was greeted by well-wishers at a Sydney caf and said the country had voted for unity over division

4 May 2025 11:09 am
The global state of the freedom of the press | Explained

As curbs on freedom of speech increase, what is the current state of press freedom worldwide? A day after World Press Freedom Day, we examine what the statistics say.

4 May 2025 11:06 am
Small plane crashes into Los Angeles-area neighbourhood, killing 1 person

About 40 firefighters were on scene. With the flames out, they began working on salvage

4 May 2025 10:03 am
Elon Musks SpaceX launch site in Texas on its way to become the city of Starbase

Starbase is the facility and launch site for the SpaceX rocket program that is under contract with the Department of Defence and NASA that hopes to send astronauts back to the moon and someday to Mars

4 May 2025 8:38 am
Lawrence Wongs PAP win by landslide in Singapore General Election

This was Mr. Wongs first election as prime minister of the global-business focused Singapore which now faces navigating through strong headwinds caused by tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump

4 May 2025 4:00 am
Communist Party of Vietnam | Marxism, market and nationalism

The ruling party, which recently commemorated the 50th anniversary of the reunification of the country after the withdrawal of U.S. forces, draws legitimacy from both its historical role in liberation and ending occupation, and its continuing role as an economic moderniser

4 May 2025 1:00 am
Yunus-led Bangladesh government has targeted 640 journalists in eight months, says report released on World Press Freedom Day

The attacks include criminal cases filed against 182 scribes, acts of violence against 206 others, and inquiries against another 85 by the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit

3 May 2025 6:59 pm
Defence pact with India to be presented in Parliament, says Sri Lankan president

Mr. Dissanayake had ensured Sri Lanka's consistent position that its soil would not be allowed to be used for any anti-Indian activity so as to endanger its neighbours national security concerns.

3 May 2025 3:14 pm
Pope Trump! U.S. President posts AI-generated image of himself dressed as pope

Donald Trump had joked to reporters that he would like to be the next pope, just days before cardinals are due to start the conclave to elect the successor of Pope Francis

3 May 2025 11:10 am
The chatter in Moscows Red Square

Despite U.S. President Donald Trumps overtures to Moscow, people there still feel that the American administration cannot be trusted. Kallol Bhattacherjee finds that even as global geopolitics is changing, and there are uncertainties in their lives, Moscovites continue to believe that the war with Ukraine is a war against NATO expansionism, and that Ukraines eastern Russian-speaking territory is rightfully theirs

3 May 2025 3:12 am
Prince Harry seeks family reconciliation after losing court case that caused split with his dad

The Duke of Sussex said that he was devastated to lose the case that was a source of friction with his 76-year-old father, who is being treated for an undisclosed cancer. Harry has met with him once briefly since his diagnosis early last year.

3 May 2025 2:03 am
Trump's budget includes $3.2 billion for World Bank's fund for poorest countries

Former President Joe Biden had pledged to contribute $4 billion, but that money has not yet been transferred.

3 May 2025 1:15 am
Hard right wins local U.K. election in blow to Labour PM

Reform, led by anti-immigrant firebrand Nigel Farage, won the by-election in Runcorn and Helsby in northwest England by just six votes, as it picked up gains in other localities, including its first mayoralty.

3 May 2025 12:05 am
China says its evaluating U.S. overtures for trade talks, but tariffs remain an obstacle

Chinas Commerce Ministry says Beijing is evaluating multiple approaches by the Trump administration for trade talks

2 May 2025 11:10 pm
Australia launches worlds largest battery-powered ship

Identified by boatbuilder Incat as Hull 096, the aluminium catamaran is powered by more than 250 tonnes of batteries and was built for South American ferry operator Buquebus.

2 May 2025 10:58 pm
Activist aid ship hit by drones on way to Gaza, NGO says

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international non-governmental group, published video footage showing a fire on one of its ships, named the Conscience, and pointed the finger at Israel

2 May 2025 3:11 pm
Ukraine's air force says Russia launched 150 drones in overnight attack

The air force said it shot down 64 of them and another 62 drones did not reach their targets

2 May 2025 12:08 pm
Russia may have helped North Korea with new warship, Seoul says

North Korea confirmed for the first time that it had deployed troops to Russia to support Moscow in its war in Ukraine.

1 May 2025 11:00 pm
Daily Quiz | On Vietnam

Heres a quiz on Vietnam which observed 50 years of the reunification of North and South on April 30

1 May 2025 5:05 pm
South Korea's acting leader Han resigns amid reports he will run for Presidential election

Observers say Han Duck-soo is expected to align with the People Power Party to launch a unified conservative campaign against liberal front-runner Lee Jae-myung

1 May 2025 1:07 pm
Pakistan's ISI chief Muhammad Asim Malik appointed as NSA amid tensions with India

He is the countrys tenth NSA, but it is for the first time that a serving ISI chief was given the task to serve concurrently in the two key positions

1 May 2025 10:14 am