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15-04-2025 QUITO: Sitting centre-right President Daniel Noboa has won the run-off round of Ecuador’s presidential election, meaning he will now serve a full four-year term. Noboa, who described his victory as “historic”, has only been in power since November 2023 after winning a snap election. He has defined his presidency, …

14-04-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ : Indian authorities have deployed troops to crack down on deadly protests in the eastern state of West Bengal over a recently passed controversial bill that critics say would dilute the rights of Muslims to manage religious endowments (waqf) worth more than $14bn. …

14-04-2025 RIYADH: The United States and Saudi Arabia will sign a preliminary agreement to cooperate over the kingdom’s ambitions to develop a civil nuclear industry, US. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told reporters in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday. Wright, who had met with Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin …

14-04-2025 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis made a brief appearance in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday at the end of a Palm Sunday service, greeting the crowds from his wheelchair as he continues to recover from double pneumonia. “Happy Palm Sunday, Happy Holy Week,” the pope said, before once returning inside …

14-04-2025 GAZA STRIP: An Israeli air strike has destroyed part of al Ahli Arab Hospital, the last fully functional hospital in Gaza City. Witnesses said the strike destroyed the intensive care and surgery departments of the hospital. Video posted online appeared to show huge flames and smoke rising after missiles …

14-04-2025 KYIV/ SUMY: Dozens of people have been killed and 84 injured, including 10 children, after a Russian attack on the centre of Sumy, according to Ukrainian authorities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the “terrible strike by Russian ballistic missiles” hit an “ordinary city street, ordinary life”, adding that without …

13-04-2025 BUDAPEST: Several thousand Hungarians mocked right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s moves to ban the annual Pride march by LGBTQ+ groups, dressed in grey and carrying banners ironically denouncing colors and diversity at a rally in central Budapest. The rally, called by the Two-tailed Dog Party, a satirical movement, follows …

13-04-2025 GAZA STRIP: Two Israeli missiles hit a building inside a main Gaza hospital on Sunday, destroying the emergency and reception department and damaging other structures, medics said. Health officials at the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital evacuated the patients from the building after one person said he received a call …

13-04-2025 Iran and the US have concluded a first round of talks in Oman over Tehran’s nuclear program, the highest-level meeting between the two nations since 2018. Both countries described the meeting as “constructive” and confirmed a second round of discussions will take place next week with the US hailing …

13-04-2025 GENEVA: More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as a result of infections that are resistant to antibiotics, according to a study by two leading experts in child health. Children in Africa and South East Asia were found to be most …