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01-12-2025 JAKARTA: Rescue workers in Indonesia are continuing to battle to reach victims in several devastated areas submerged by cyclone-driven torrential rain over the past week, as authorities said the death toll has now reached 303 and would likely continue to rise. Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (known as the …

01-12-2025 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will discuss all aspects of their countries’ “privileged strategic partnership” when Putin visits New Delhi next week, the Kremlin said. India, a major buyer of Russian oil, has also bought its weapons for decades, though a top defence …

01-12-2025 WASHINGTON: The US State Department has announced it is “immediately” pausing issuing visas for individuals travelling on Afghan passports to protect “public safety”, as President Donald Trump administration’s immigration crackdown intensifies in the wake of a deadly attack on two National Guard members. The announcement on Friday came as …

01-12-2025 GAZA STRIP: The death toll from Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza has surpassed 70,000, the Health Ministry in the enclave says, as Israeli military attacks continue. The ministry said on Saturday that at least 70,100 people have been killed across the Gaza Strip since Israel’s …

01-12-2025 CARACAS: Caracas has denounced United States President Donald Trump’s announcement that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be considered closed “in its entirety”, as tensions between the countries escalate. In a statement on Saturday afternoon, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said Trump’s statement earlier in the day amounts …

30-11-2025 By SJA Jafri + PR KARACHI:  The Aga Khan University’s (AKU) Institute for Global Health and Development (IGHD) brought together Pakistan’s leading architects, planners, public health experts, development specialists, and government representatives to address one of the country’s most pressing national challenges: how to redesign homes, neighborhoods, and public …

30-11-2025 KHARTOUM: Hundreds of Sudanese children have arrived in the town of Tawila in Sudan’s western Darfur region without their parents since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of the city of el-Fasher last month, a humanitarian group says. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on Thursday that …

30-11-2025 OTTAWA: Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has signed an agreement with Alberta’s premier that will roll back certain climate rules to spur investment in energy production, while encouraging construction of a new oil pipeline to the West Coast. Under the agreement, which was signed on Thursday, the federal government …

30-11-2025 BISSAU: An army general has been sworn in as Guinea-Bissau’s new head of state a day after an apparent coup. Gen Horta N’Tam becomes the transitional president for a period of one year. He took the oath on Thursday, in brief and muted proceedings at army headquarters. N’Tam, who …

30-11-2025 CARACAS: Venezuela has banned six major international airlines from landing in the country after they failed to meet a 48-hour deadline to resume flights there. The airlines had temporarily suspended their routes into the capital, Caracas, after the US warned of “heightened military activity” in the area. Angered by …