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27-04-2025 CAIRO: Hamas is open to a years-long truce with Israel in Gaza but is not willing to lay down its arms, an official said on Saturday, as leaders of the Palestinian Islamist militant group met mediators in Cairo for ceasefire talks. Sources close to the talks told media Hamas …

27-04-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Pakistan called on Saturday for a “neutral” investigation into the killings of mostly Indian tourists in Kashmir that New Delhi has blamed on Islamabad, saying it was willing to cooperate and favored peace. India has identified two of the three suspected militants …

27-04-2025 KHARTOUM: A suspected drone attack by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary has killed and injured dozens of people at a displacement camp in River Nile state, authorities said. In a statement late on Friday, the local governor said the attack knocked out a nearby power station for the …

27-04-2025 KAMPALA: Uganda has officially declared the end of its latest Ebola outbreak, three months after the first cases emerged in the capital, Kampala. The Ministry of Health announced the milestone on Saturday via its official social media account, calling it “good news” and confirming that 42 days had passed …

27-04-2025 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has been laid to rest in Rome following solemn, hours-long funeral rites at St Peter’s Square in the Vatican, bringing to a close his sometimes turbulent 12-year leadership of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. The Argentinian pontiff, who died earlier this week from a stroke …

27-04-2025 TEHRAN: At least four people have been killed and 500 more injured in a massive explosion at a port near the southern Iranian city of Bandar Abbas, state media is reporting. The blast took place at the Shahid Rajaee port on Saturday morning, blowing out the windows of nearby …

27-04-2025 KINSHASA/ KIGALI: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to respect each other’s sovereignty and come up with a draft peace deal by 2 May. The deal was signed by the two countries’ foreign ministers in Washington, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also …

27-04-2025 BRASILIA: A woman in Brazil has been jailed for 14 years after writing an offensive message in lipstick on a statue during riots in Brasilia. Debora Rodrigues took part in the unrest in January 2023, along with hundreds of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro. The riot saw thousands …

26-04-2025 GENEVA/ CAIRO/ GAZA: The World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday it had run out of food stocks in Gaza due to the sustained closure of crossings into the enclave, while Gaza authorities said Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 78 people in the past 24 hours. “The WFP …

26-04-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Armed police and soldiers searched homes and forests for militants in Indian Kashmir on Friday and India’s army chief reviewed security there after the killing of 26 men at a tourist site, the worst attack on civilians in nearly two decades. The …