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15-11-2025 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: Democrats appear more fired up than Republicans about voting in next year’s congressional elections following the party’s victories in recent state and local contests, according to a new Reuters/ Ipsos poll, which showed Republican President Donald Trump’s approval steady at 40%. The six-day poll, which closed …

15-11-2025 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has said both suicide bombers involved in the two attacks in the country this week were Afghan nationals, as authorities announced having made several arrests. Naqvi made the remarks in parliament on Thursday during a session carried live on television. …

15-11-2025 UNITED NATIONS: Tuberculosis deaths have fallen by 3 percent to 1.23 million people in 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. In its annual TB report published onyesterday, the United Nations health agency also revealed that overall cases of the disease had dropped by almost 2 percent since 2023. …

14-11-2025 SUAO: Taiwan evacuated more than 8,300 people ahead of Wednesday’s arrival of a much weakened Typhoon Fung-wong that brought record downpours to the mountainous east coast and unleashed floods that rose neck-high in places. Businesses and schools were shut in most southern areas of the island, with 51 people …

14-11-2025 BELEM, BRAZIL: Dozens of Indigenous protesters forced their way into the COP30 climate summit venue on Tuesday and clashed with security guards at the entrance to demand climate action and forest protection. Shouting angrily, protesters demanded access to the UN compound where thousands of delegates from countries around the …

14-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Indian police are investigating if there is a link between this week’s car blast in Delhi and the earlier arrest of a group of seven men from the restive Kashmir region with arms and bomb-making material, three sources familiar with the probe said on …

14-11-2025 TRIPOLI: Forty-two migrants, including 29 from Sudan, eight from Somalia, three from Cameroon and two from Nigeria, have been missing at sea and presumed dead since their boat overturned off the coast of Libya, according to the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM). Their rubber vessel, packed with …

14-11-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ KABUL: Nine (09) in ten (10) families in Afghanistan are going hungry or falling into debt as millions of new returnees stretch resources in poverty-stricken areas in the east and north, according to the United Nations. Taliban-controlled Afghanistan battered by aid cuts, sanctions and repeated natural disasters, …

14-11-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn over an edited clip that has plunged the broadcaster into a public relations crisis and prompted the resignations of two top executives. In a letter sent to the BBC, Trump’s legal team has demanded the …

14-11-2025 CANBERRA: Australia and Indonesia say they are close to signing a “watershed” defence treaty that will upgrade their already close collaboration on security issues. The treaty was approved on Wednesday by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, who is on his first state visit to …