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September 9, 2025 2:52 PM

‘I lose my freedom today’: Thailand’s Thaksin jailed in fall from grace

A smiling Thaksin Shinawatra arrived at Thailand's Supreme Court on Tuesday morning in his black and silver Mercedes Maybach luxury sedan, dressed in a dark suit and a yellow tie. But the former Thai prime minister left the court complex bereft of t...

September 9, 2025 2:18 PM

North China posts longest rainy season since 1961, country faces hottest summer

China faced its hottest summer since 1961, while the country's north experienced its longest rainy season for the same period, the national weather authority said on Tuesday, atmospheric chaos that scientists have linked to climate change. The summe...

September 9, 2025 2:12 PM

Israeli military issues evacuation order for residents in Gaza City

Israel's military on Tuesday ordered Gaza City residents to evacuate ahead of a new offensive to seize the enclave's largest urban centre, part of a planned takeover stirring international alarm over the fate of the entire territory. Taking over the...

September 9, 2025 2:52 PM

Anti-corruption protesters in Nepal defy curfew; India urges restraint amid unrest

Anti-corruption demonstrators in Nepal defied an indefinite curfew on Tuesday, a day after 19 people were killed and over 100 injured in violent protests sparked by a social media ban. Even after the government lifted the ban following an emergency c...

September 9, 2025 2:13 PM

Amnesty says Pakistan spying on millions through phone-tapping, firewall

Pakistan is spying on millions of its citizens using a phone-tapping system and a Chinese-built internet firewall that censors social media, in one of the most comprehensive examples of state surveillance outside China, Amnesty International said. T...

September 9, 2025 10:30 AM

India unveils UPI-UPU integration at Universal Postal Congress in Dubai

Union Minister for Communications and Development of North Eastern Region, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, today unveiled the UPI–UPU Integration project at the 28th Universal Postal Congress in Dubai, calling it a landmark step to transform cross-border ...

September 9, 2025 1:00 PM

Thai ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra jailed as court rules hospital stay unlawful

Thailand's influential former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was sent to prison on Tuesday after the Supreme Court ruled his time in hospital detention was an attempt to avoid jail, a major blow for a powerful family that has dominated politics fo...

September 9, 2025 10:10 AM

Stalemate or surrender: France’s Macron is left with no good options

The challenge French President Emmanuel Macron faces in choosing his fifth prime minister in under two years lays bare the depth of a political crisis that in many ways is of his own making, and one with no clear path out. Francois Bayrou is set to ...

September 9, 2025 10:00 AM

Congress releases Epstein’s ‘birthday book,’ including alleged Trump letter

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday made public a birthday letter Donald Trump allegedly wrote to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein more than 20 years ago, though the White House quickly denied its authenticity. The letter, the exist...

September 9, 2025 9:47 AM

French parliament ousts prime minister, deepening political crisis

France's parliament brought down the government on Monday over its plans to tame the ballooning national debt, deepening a political crisis that is weakening the euro zone's second-largest economy. Lawmakers voted to oust Prime Minister Francois...

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