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Watch: Two years, 65,000 deaths: The data story of Gazas war

Two years into the conflict, Gaza faces a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented scale. Nearly 2 million people are struggling with severe food insecurity, and almost one in three children suffer from malnutrition.

7 Oct 2025 11:08 pm
Nepal Gen-Z protests: FIR registered against deposed PM Oli, his Home Minister

Nineteen protesters were killed during the police firing on September 8, the first day of the Gen-Z protests. In total, 76 people were killed during the two-day protests on September 8 and 9

7 Oct 2025 10:16 pm
World Bank says Sri Lanka's economic recovery remains incomplete, calls for urgent reforms

Sri Lanka's economy crashed in 2022 due to a forex crisis stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and other flawed political and economic management reasons since 2019

7 Oct 2025 10:03 pm
Gaza babies forced to share oxygen masks as Israel blocks equipment: UNICEF

Two years of war between Israel and Hamas has increased stress and malnourishment among pregnant mothers, leading to a rise in premature and underweight babies

7 Oct 2025 9:59 pm
Dubai airshow bars Israeli companies from exhibiting: organiser

Israel's inaugural participation in 2023 was overshadowed by the start of the Gaza war. Israeli defence exhibitions were empty and unstaffed at the start of the show

7 Oct 2025 9:56 pm
Watch: Sbastien Lecornu resigns as PM: what next for France and Emmanuel Macron?

Prime Minister Sbastien Lecornu has resigned just hours after unveiling his cabinet making his government the shortest-lived government in modern French history. The resignation came only days before the government was set to present its 2026 budget bill to parliament. What options does President Macron have?

7 Oct 2025 6:57 pm
Russia says Ukrainian drone crashed into nuclear plant, without causing damage

Moscow has previously accused Kyiv of attacking nuclear power stations in the Kursk and Smolensk regions of western Russia

7 Oct 2025 5:16 pm
Election calls heap pressure on Macron to end political crisis

Resignation calls, long confined to the fringes, have entered the mainstream during one of the worst political crises since the 1958 creation of the Fifth Republic, France's current system of government.

7 Oct 2025 5:15 pm
Houthis detain nine more U.N. staff as part of Yemen crackdown

The detentions bring the number of detained U.N. workers in Houthi-held territories in Yemen to 53 since 2021, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said

7 Oct 2025 5:10 pm
Murder accused Nepali criminal killed in police encounter in Delhi

Bhim Mahabahadur Jora was involved in at least six cases of murder, dacoity, and burglary across Delhi, Gurugram, Gujarat, and Bengaluru, the police officer added

7 Oct 2025 12:17 pm
French PM in final effort to salvage cabinet

The chaos comes ahead of 2027 presidential elections expected to be a historic crossroads in French politics, with the French far right under Marine Le Pen sensing its best chance yet of taking power

7 Oct 2025 11:34 am
White House says no U.S. shutdown-related layoffs yet, but warns they could come

On Capitol Hill, Republicans and Democrats showed no signs they would end the standoff any time soon.

7 Oct 2025 6:50 am
Israel, Hamas prepare for talks in Egypt over possible Gaza ceasefire, release of hostages

The negotiations will focus on the first stage of a ceasefire, including the partial withdrawal of Israeli forces as well as the release of hostages held by the militants in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners

6 Oct 2025 5:06 pm
Medicine Nobel 2025 awarded

The Nobel Prize for 2025 in Medicine or Physiology has been awarded for discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance

6 Oct 2025 3:02 pm
In DR Congo, M23 militia takes root as diplomacy stalls

M23 armed militia consolidates control in eastern DR Congo, creating a parallel administrative structure to the Kinshasa government, including taxes, soldiers and judiciary

6 Oct 2025 1:15 pm
Russia says downed 251 Ukrainian drones overnight

It said Russian forces downed 40 drones over Crimea annexed by Russia in 2014 as well as 62 over the Black Sea

6 Oct 2025 10:51 am
U.K. police to get greater powers to restrict demos

UK Government said police would be authorised to consider the cumulative impact of protests when deciding to impose limits on protesters

5 Oct 2025 11:12 pm
Iran says cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog 'no longer relevant'

The deal had set up a framework to resume cooperation and allow the watchdog to inspect Iranian sites, after Tehran suspended cooperation following Israeli and U.S. strikes on its key nuclear sites in June

5 Oct 2025 11:07 pm
5 Oct 2025 8:01 pm
Gunmen kill two, injure 12 in shootout in crowd in Alabamas Montgomery

Montgomery Police Chief James Graboys said three of the injured were hospitalised with life-threatening injuries

5 Oct 2025 7:16 pm
'We were treated like animals', deported Gaza flotilla activists say

Some boats were also hit by water cannon. All of the boats were taken by very heavily armed people and brought to shore, says Paolo Romano, a regional councillor from Lombardy in Italy

5 Oct 2025 11:06 am
Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 36, search for bodies continues

Cranes were deployed to excavate debris and search and evacuation efforts were 60% complete, according to the agency, which said it expected to clear all debris and finish the search on Monday

5 Oct 2025 9:06 am
Trump plans to federalise 300 troops in Illinois, as judge blocks similar mobilisation in Oregon

Mr. Trump has characterised both Portland and Chicago as cities rife with crime and unrest, calling the former a war zone and suggesting apocalyptic force was needed to quell problems in the latter

5 Oct 2025 8:05 am
Israel troops still operating in Gaza after Trump, hostage family appeals

Gaza Citys Baptist Hospital said it received casualties from a strike on a home in the citys Tuffah neighbourhood, including four dead and several wounded

4 Oct 2025 11:07 pm
Four students injured in bomb explosion inside school in Pakistan

Police said the injured students were immediately shifted to a hospital in Peshawar, where they were provided treatment and later discharged

4 Oct 2025 9:07 pm
Pope Leo to release first document, on world's poor, on October 9

Pope Leo's document completes a writing project first started by Francis but left uncompleted before the pontiff's death in April, after 12 years leading the global Church

4 Oct 2025 2:17 pm
Maldives police arrest 8 demonstrators during opposition party protest

The protesters violated conditions agreed upon before the march, used unauthorised roads and threw rocks and water bottles, the Maldives Police Service said in a post on social media platform X

4 Oct 2025 11:15 am
Trump's 'paper tiger' jab at Russia echoes Mao's propaganda against U.S.

Vladimir Putin retorted, We are fighting against the entire bloc of NATO, and we keep moving, keep advancing and feel confident, and we are a paper tiger; what NATO itself is?

4 Oct 2025 11:02 am