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30-11-2025 VICTORIA: Firefighters in Hong Kong worked for a second day to put out a large blaze at a residential complex that has killed at least 94 people in the Chinese territory’s deadliest and most destructive fire in 60 years. Officials said on Friday that flames in four buildings in …

30-11-2025 COLOMBO: Landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains have caused more than 40 deaths in Sri Lanka, where the authorities have stopped passenger trains and closed roads in some parts of the country, officials say. The government’s Disaster Management Centre on Thursday said 25 of the reported deaths occurred …

29-11-2025 JAKARTA: Floods and landslides brought about by torrential rain in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province have killed hundreds people, authorities said, with rescue efforts hampered by what an official described as a “total cutoff” of roads and communications. North Sumatra regional police spokesman Ferry Walintukan told Detik news website that …

29-11-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump has taken to social media to announce that South Africa will not be allowed to attend next year’s Group of 20 (G20) intergovernmental forum in Miami, Florida. In Wednesday’s post, Trump renewed false claims that a white “genocide” was unfolding in the African …

29-11-2025 ANKARA: Pope Leo arrived in Turkey on his first trip outside Italy as leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday and was expected to make appeals for peace in the Middle East and urge unity among long-divided Christian churches. The first US pope chose mainly Muslim Turkey as his …

29-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Apple is challenging India’s new antitrust penalty law under which the US company could potentially face a fine of up to $38 billion, a court filing at the Delhi High Court, seen by media, shows. The challenge is the first against India’s antitrust penalty law …

29-11-2025 DHAKA: Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to 21 years in prison in separate corruption cases related to allocations of land in a government project, dealing another legal blow to the country’s former leader, living in exile. In a decision issued on Thursday, a court found …

29-11-2025 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: In the Palestinian refugee camp of Burj al-Barajneh, two men stood on opposite balconies, discussing the recent Israeli attack that killed a senior Hezbollah operative just over a kilometer away from where they were standing. A year earlier, the areas around the camp, which is located in …

29-11-2025 LONDON/ GAZA STRIP: Rights group Amnesty International has warned that “Israeli authorities are still committing genocide” in Gaza, waging new attacks and curbing critical aid access, despite the declared ceasefire. Israel has repeatedly violated the ceasefire deal, more than 500 times in seven weeks, killing at least 347 Palestinians …

28-11-2025 NEW DELHI: Nearly 20 years after police found the bodies of 19 women and children near a bungalow dubbed India’s “house of horrors”, the case is back in the spotlight because Surinder Koli, the last of the two men convicted, has walked free. On 12 November, the Supreme Court …