12-10-2025 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: The Taliban government has confirmed that it attacked Pakistani troops in multiple mountainous locations on the northern border. Casualties are not yet clear in what the Taliban government called “retaliatory operations”, after it claimed Pakistan had violated Afghan airspace and bombed a …
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12-10-2025 CAIRO: Hamas is pressing Israel to include prominent Palestinians in a prisoner-release list, part of a ceasefire deal that will also see hostages returned from Gaza. Hamas’s insistence comes after the Israeli justice ministry published the names of 250 prisoners to be freed but excluded seven high-profile prisoners including …
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12-10-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s largest bank is set to return to the rupee debt market after a year with plans to raise funds through Basel III-compliant tier II bonds this month, three sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. State Bank of India, opens new tab …
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12-10-2025 PYONGYANG: North Korea unveiled its latest and “most powerful” intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at a military parade presided over by the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reports. The parade on Friday in the capital Pyongyang featured some of North Korea’s most advanced …
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12-10-2025 KHARTOUM/ EL FASHER: Drone and artillery attack has killed at least 60 people at a displacement centre and university grounds where people had been seeking refuge, in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher in North Darfur state, according to activists. The El Fasher Resistance Committee said on Saturday that …
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12-10-2025 GAZA STRIP: The bodies of 135 Palestinians have been pulled from beneath the rubble across the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s ceasefire-mandated halt in its two-year genocidal war allowed rescue workers to reach devastated areas. Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that at least 135 bodies were recovered on Saturday. Dozens …
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12-10-2025 SEOUL: Claims that a study conducted by South Korean researchers “proves” a causal link between COVID-19 vaccines and an increased risk of up to six types of cancer have gone viral in recent days. These claims caused a wave of misinformation, with prominent figures and platforms using their professional …
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12-10-2025 BRUSSELS: The United Kingdom has said two Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft joined a 12-hour NATO patrol earlier this week near Russia’s border, following a series of Russian drone and aircraft incursions into alliance airspace. “This was a substantial joint mission with our US and NATO allies,” Defence Minister …
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11-10-2025 CARACAS: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Over the past two years, she has reenergized a politically disengaged population after more than a decade of economic and social collapse. Machado has been in hiding in Venezuela since …
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11-10-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India on Friday upgraded ties with Afghanistan’s Taliban administration, giving a boost to the diplomatically isolated group, by announcing it would reopen its embassy in Kabul that was shut after the Taliban seized power in 2021. The Afghan Taliban administration will also send …
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