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31-12-2025 NAYPYIDAW: Polls have closed in Myanmar’s first general election since the country’s military toppled Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government in a 2021 coup. The heavily restricted election took place in about a third of the Southeast Asian nation’s 330 townships, with large areas inaccessible amid …

31-12-2025 ANKARA: Turkiye has held a military ceremony to honour a group of Libyan officials, including military chief Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, who were killed in a plane crash over Turkish territory earlier this week. The ceremony, held on Sunday at Murted airbase outside the capital, Ankara, honored al-Haddad and …

31-12-2025 TEHRAN: On the streets of Iran’s capital, Tehran, young women are increasingly flouting the compulsory hijab laws, posting videos online that show them walking the streets unveiled. Their defiance comes more than three years after the killing of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman taken into custody by the …

31-12-2025 LONDON: Teenagers in the United Kingdom will be offered paid “gap years” with the armed forces under a new “whole of society” approach to national defence that aims to increase recruitment among young people, according to reports. The London-based i Paper reported on Friday that the UK’s Ministry of …

31-12-2025 PYONGYANG: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that his country’s ties with Russia had been strengthened through “sharing blood, life and death in the same trench” in the Ukraine war, as he sent a New Year’s greeting to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kim’s message followed President Putin’s own …

31-12-2025 NEW YORK: Thousands of flights have been cancelled and delayed in the United States due to winter storm Devin, airline monitoring website FlightAware reports, dealing a blow to air travel during peak holiday time. A total of 1,581 flights “within, into or out of the” US were cancelled and …

31-12-2025 LOS ANGELES: On Chinese social media, stories of U.S. financial hardship have gone viral under the phrase “death line,” describing how many Americans are just one crisis away from poverty. Roughly 67 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, according to PNC Bank’s 2025 Financial Wellness report, while …

30-12-2025 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Iran has promised to respond harshly to any aggression after United States President Donald Trump threatened further military action, should Tehran attempt to rebuild its nuclear program or missile capabilities. President Masoud Pezeshkian issued the warning on social media on Tuesday, a day after Trump met Prime …

30-12-2025 NEW YORK: New York has approved a new law requiring social media companies to display mental health warning labels on certain addictive features, a step state leaders say is intended to reduce harm linked to excessive online use. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the measure Friday, targeting design tools such …

30-12-2025 BEIJING: China on Saturday passed revisions to a key piece of legislation aimed at strengthening Beijing’s ability to wage trade war, curb outbound shipments from strategic minerals to sex dolls, and further open its $19 trillion economy. The latest revision to the Foreign Trade Law, approved by China’s top …