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Appointed in January, the 35-year-old Mykhailo Fedorov is Ukraine's youngest ever Defence Minister
Cambodia has emerged as a hotspot for crime syndicates running a multibillion-dollar fraud industry that sees scammers lure internet users globally into fake romantic relationships and cryptocurrency investments
As time goes on, the price of oil is going to go up. And the world knows that this is not Irans fault. This is the fault of the Trump regime and Netanyahu, says Marandi
State-owned Russian gas producer Gazprom earlier said that the Russkaya and Beregovaya stations were targeted
EU countries should not be looking to deal with Mr. Trump bilaterally, she said
The court refused to grant the petition to shift Khan to a private hospital. It, however, directed Islamabad Chief Commissioner Muhammad Ali Randhawa to constitute a medical board to check Khan
Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said a platform had been created to safely train AI models without giving away sensitive data
A Bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and stuck in the Senate proposes a nationwide requirement for each voter to provide documentary proof of citizenship
Iran has launched multiple attacks on Gulf Arab states, including sending dozens of drones toward Saudi Arabia, following warnings from its new supreme leader about hosting American bases
Mohammad Marandi, Professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran and a former adviser to Irans nuclear negotiating team, shares his perspective on the ongoing war, Irans military strategy, and the wider impact of the conflict on global energy markets and the world economy.
The back and forth on Taiwans defence spending has provoked concern in the United States, as it is the most important international backer and arms supplier of the Chinese-claimed island
Pakistan's military did not respond to a request for comment
Women in Japan are challenging the constitutionality of Japan's decades-old maternity protection law, one of the world's most restrictive barriers to sterilisation
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the announcement, while human rights groups accused the military of ignoring one of the gravest instances of abuse in the countrys network of wartime prisons
Adobes shares have fallen around 22% so far this year after declining over 21% in 2025, reflecting investor apprehension over the firms AI strategy and outlook
Sirens could be heard coming from the direction of Sheikh Zayed Road, the United Arab Emirates citys main artery
The data is among the first to show the effects on youth online behaviour since Australia rolled out the ban, which is being copied by governments around the world
A wave of attacks on commercial vessels in and around the Strait of Hormuz has heightened tensions along one of the worlds busiest shipping routes.
The French military said earlier that drones had hit a base where troops were taking part in counter-terrorism training with Iraqi counterparts
U.S. interventions resulted in more than a thousand fatalities in 2025, the deadliest single year since 2011
U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that Irans national soccer team should withdraw from the upcoming FIFA World Cup as a personal safety measure
A multitude of intelligence reports provide consistent analysis that the regime is not in danger of collapse and etains control of the Iranian public, said one of the sources, all of whom were granted anonymity to discuss U.S. intelligence findings
The rocket will be crewed by three American astronauts mission commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen
Iranian athletes and coaches are exempt from the travel ban Mr. Trump imposed against their country last June
The KC-135 is at least the fourth U.S. military aircraft lost during the war, after three F-15s were shot down by friendly fire over Kuwait
Ships must coordinate with Irans navy to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the countrys foreign ministry spokesperson said
I have added a third objective, which is to create, for the Iranian people, the conditions to bring down this regime, Mr. Netanyahu said
U.S. Treasury Secretary said absolutely not when asked whether there was a price that could cause him to confront President Donald Trump and say the Iran war was no longer affordable
FBI, police at the scene; all Jewish organisations in the area asked to go into lockout protocol nobody in or out of your building
Ali Larijani, Secretary of Irans National Security Council, responded to Mr. Trump, saying if Irans electricity grid is targeted, the whole region will go dark
In direct elections, RSP won 125 of the 165, and secured another 57 in PR votes, leaving them only two seats short of securing a powerful two-thirds majority
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei also calls for Gulf countries to close their U.S. military bases
As tensions rise in West Asia, Indias foreign policy faces scrutiny. Join experts Amb. Talmiz Ahmad and Kabir Taneja, alongside host Smriti Sudesh, in the In Focus Podcast to explore the implications.
The Philippines, this years ASEAN chair, is hosting the meetings as officials weigh impacts and responses to surging oil prices as well as disruptions to shipping, logistics, and trade flows across the regions export-reliant economies
Manuqa said that one person was pulled out of the mud alive during the rescue operation.
The service was suspended when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020
The government of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, took over after February 12 elections
The Gulf will continue to matter for India, but the old certainty of the Gulf dream has been shaken
The short AI videos in the app feed, which Meta calls Vibes, often feature childrens faces on the bodies of adult women, as well as sexual scenes featuring morphed celebrity lookalikes
We discussed both promising projects that can contribute to the restoration of Russian-American relations, as well as the current crisis situation in global energy markets, he said
Britain has been weighing tougher curbs on childrens access to social media, with the government considering barring under 16s from such platforms
A U.S. military investigation has found that a Tomahawk missile mistakenly struck a girls school in Minab in southern Iran during the opening hours of the IsraelIran war, reportedly due to outdated targeting data. A leading U.S. newspaper said preliminary findings suggest the United States was responsible for the February 28 strike.
During nuclear talks ahead the war, Iran had consistently argued that as a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), nuclear enrichment is a legitimate right. This was also the first time a senior Iranian leader called for reparations as a condition to end the war
An Indian national, whose name is being withheld at the moment, has reportedly been killed in the attack, while the remaining 27 crew and personnel on the oil tanker have been rescued and taken to Basra, the sources said
Hezbollah in a statement said that in response to the criminal aggression against dozens of Lebanese cities and towns and Beirut's southern suburbs, its fighters targeted sites in northern Israel with dozens of rockets as part of a new operation announced a short time earlier
It urged people across the region to avoid going within one kilometre (around half a mile) of banks
Testing showed that eight chatbots assisted the make-believe attackers in over half the responses, providing advice on locations to target and weapons to use in an attack, the study said

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