Palestinians returning to Khan Younis
Streams of Palestinians filed into the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Monday to salvage what they could from the vast destruction left in the wake of Israel’s offensive, a day after the Israeli military announced it was withdrawing troops from the area. Many came back to the Gaza...
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Trump declines to endorse national abortion ban
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Nepal Army to collect 10 tonnes of garbage from Mt Everest
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Rwandans commemorate 30 years since genocide
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Drones attack Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
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Security forces kill 2 Papuan rebel leaders in shootout
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Pak set to repay $1 bn against Eurobond
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‘Vehicle carrying Chinese nationals in NW Pak was not bullet, bomb-proof’
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Russia declares federal emergency in the flood-hit Orenburg region
Russia’s government has declared on Sunday flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency, state media reported. The floods, caused by rising water levels in the Ural River, forced over 4,000 people, including 885 children, to evacuate, the regional government said. State news agency Tass said that a further...
6 security personnel, 12 militants killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan
(): Six security personnel, including a senior police officer, died while 12 militants were killed in separate terror incidents and security operations in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces in the past two days, officials said on Sunday. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan...
Poland polls test Tusk govt after 4 months in power
Voters across Poland cast ballots in local elections on Sunday in the first electoral test for the coalition government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk nearly four months since it took power. Voters were electing mayors as well as members of municipal councils and provincial assemblies, an important exercise in self-governance that...
Imran says some of PTI leaders in touch with establishment
Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has said that some of his party leaders are in contact with the powerful establishment, as he expressed willingness to hold a dialogue with anyone amidst the crackdown on his party. Khan’s remarks came as he spoke to reporters after the hearing of the...
Close ally of populist PM to become Slovakia’s president
A close ally of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico beat a pro-Western career diplomat to become Slovakia’s new president, and succeed Zuzana Caputová, the country’s first female head of state. Parliamentary speaker Peter Pellegrini received 53.85 per cent of the vote with the ballots from over 98 per cent polling stations...
We patrolled SCS in an apparent response to US naval drills, says China
(): China’s military said Sunday that it had conducted air and sea patrols and that all activities that “disrupt the South China Sea” are under control, an apparent response to naval exercises by the US and its allies. The defence chiefs of the United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines...
Biden ,Democrats report raising USD 90 million-plus in March
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee said Saturday that they raised more than $90 million in March and ended the year’s first quarter with $192 million-plus in cash on hand, further stretching their money advantage over Donald Trump and the Republicans. The Biden campaign and its affiliated...
