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13-01-2025 KHARTOUM: The army in Sudan says it has captured a key city in the country’s east, one of its biggest gains yet in an almost two-year-long war against rebel forces. Footage on social media showed people celebrating in the streets as army soldiers entered the city of Wad Madani. …

13-01-2025 SEOUL: Flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the South Korean passenger plane that crashed last month stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, the country’s transport ministry has said. The crash of the Jeju Air flight killed 179 people, making it the deadliest air accident on Korean soil. …

12-01-2025 NEW YORK: A judge has sentenced US President-elect Donald Trump to an “unconditional discharge,” bringing to an end the first criminal trial of a former US president. The sentence in the hush-money payment case means the incoming president has been spared any penalty, including jail time or a fine, …

12-01-2025 NUUK: Greenlanders do not want to be American or Danish, the Arctic island’s prime minister has said, after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using military force to acquire the territory. Prime Minister Mute Egede, who had insisted the territory was “not for sale” after Trump flagged …

12-01-2025 WASHINGTON: Justices at the United States Supreme Court have signaled scepticism towards a challenge brought by the video-sharing platform TikTok, as it seeks to overturn a law that would force the app’s sale or ban it by January 19. Friday’s hearing is the latest in a legal saga that …

12-01-2025 GAZA/ SANA’A: Israel’s military said it attacked sites in Yemen controlled by Houthi fighters, including a power station near the capital Sanaa, and the ports of Hodeidah and Ras Isa. Several people have been killed in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon’s south with Israel’s military saying later that …

12-01-2025 NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s new central bank governor Sanjay Malhotra has initiated a review of the Reserve Bank of India’s inflation and growth forecasting tools to minimize projection errors, four sources said. Malhotra, who took charge last month, is asking the RBI’s internal teams to include new datasets, analysis …

12-01-2025 WASHINGTON: The US has announced an increased $25m (£20.4m) reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on the day he was sworn in for a third six-year term in office. The inauguration ceremony was overshadowed by recrimination from the international community and Venezuelan opposition …

12-01-2025 LONDON: The planet has moved a major step closer to warming more than 1.5C, new data shows, despite world leaders vowing a decade ago they would try to avoid this. The European Copernicus climate service, one of the main global data providers, said on Friday that 2024 was the …

11-01-2025 CARACAS: Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was freed on Thursday, her Vente Venezuela movement said, shortly after she was detained amid gunshots while leaving a protest in eastern Caracas. Opposition demonstrations took place throughout the country in an eleventh-hour effort to put pressure on President Nicolas Maduro ahead …