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January 7, 2025 2:45 PM

Powerful earthquake kills nearly 100 in Tibet, rattles Nepal

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's holiest cities on Tuesday, Chinese authorities said, killing at least 95 people and shaking buildings in neighbouring Nepal, Bhutan and India. The qua...

January 7, 2025 11:43 AM

US Congress certifies Trump election victory with Harris presiding

The U.S. Congress formally certified Republican President-elect Donald Trump's election victory on Monday during a session presided over by Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost the November contest. The quadrennial ritual, clearing th...

January 6, 2025 8:55 AM

Hamas and Israel wrangle over talks as Israeli strikes in Gaza intensify

Israel and Hamas wrangled on Sunday over the details of a deal to halt fighting in the Gaza Strip and return hostages home, as Palestinian officials said intensified Israeli bombardments had killed more than 100 people over the weekend. A Hamas of...

January 6, 2025 8:32 AM

PM Modi takes dig at AAP, says ‘Delhi witnessed ‘AAP-DA’ in name of state government

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged Delhi's voters to give the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a chance in the 2025 Delhi assembly elections, taking a sharp swipe at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government. He labeled the AAP's governance in Delhi...

January 4, 2025 5:30 PM

Israeli airstrikes push up Gaza death toll amid new truce push

Israel has carried out airstrikes on dozens of Hamas targets in Gaza over the past 24 hours, it said on Friday, in attacks that Palestinian health authorities said had killed more than 110 people in two days. The surge in operations and casualties c...

January 3, 2025 8:44 AM

Texas man who backed Islamic State acted alone in New Orleans attack, FBI says

A U.S. Army veteran who drove a truck into a crowd of New Year's Day revelers in New Orleans had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, but acted alone in the attack that killed at least 14 people, the FBI said on Thursday. The suspect, who the FBI sa...

January 2, 2025 4:03 PM

Islamic State group claims responsibility for deadly attacks, Including New Orleans truck incident

The radical Islamic State group, which once imposed a reign of terror over millions of people in Syria and Iraq, has been implicated in the truck attack on a New Orleans crowd, which killed 15 people and injured about 30. The suspect, identified a...

December 31, 2024 7:38 PM

Syria’s Spiral: The Rise, Reign, and Ruin of Bashar al-Assad Amid the Arab Spring’s Echoes

Syria, a country in Southwest Asia on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, was deeply affected by the Arab Spring protests that swept through many nations in the Middle East and North Africa in 2010 and 2011. These were anti-regime, pro-democr...

December 31, 2024 10:49 AM

South Korea court issues arrest warrant for President Yoon

A South Korean court on Tuesday approved an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has been impeached and suspended from power over his decision to impose martial law on Dec. 3, investigating authorities said. The Corruption Investigation O...

December 30, 2024 11:44 AM

Afghan Taliban hit back at Pakistan, targets soldiers

Pakistani airstrikes kill 46 people in Afghanistan on 24 December. Pakistan claims it targeted a hideout of its homegrown terrorist group -- the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan to avenge the killings of 16 Pakistani soldiers by the T.T.P. three days ago. ...

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