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01-02-2025 MOSCOW: A Russian oil refinery in the southern Volgograd region caught fire after being hit by debris from a Ukrainian drone attack. Regional Governor Andrei Bocharov confirmed the overnight attack, saying on Friday that the blaze was “promptly extinguished” and one injured worker was hospitalized. The attack was Ukraine’s …

01-02-2025 NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s military has extended its state of emergency for another six months as it struggles to maintain its increasingly fragile grip on power, with fighting raging on multiple fronts across the country. The military-controlled National Defence and Security Council renewed the emergency rule in a meeting in the …

31-01-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ PRAYAGRAJ: Millions of devout Hindus thronged the northern Indian city of Prayagraj on Thursday for the Maha Kumbh festival, a day after dozens died in a stampede at the largest gathering of humanity in the world. Train and bus stations in the city saw a …

31-01-2025 Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has written a letter to Google asking the firm to reconsider its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring the body of water which is bordered by the US, Cuba and Mexico be renamed the Gulf …

31-01-2025 DAMASCUS: Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named president for the “transitional period”, state media report, seven weeks after he led the rebel offensive that overthrew Bashar al-Assad. Rebel military commander Hassan Abdul Ghani also announced the cancellation of Syria’s 2012 constitution and the dissolution of the …

31-01-2025 STOCKHOLM: A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden. Salwan Momika was killed in an apartment in Sodertalje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening, prosecutors told media. Unrest broke out after Momika set fire to a copy of Islam’s holy book outside Stockholm …

31-01-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Israel has delayed the release of more than 100 Palestinian prisoners, after hostages were released in chaotic scenes in Gaza Seven hostages two Israelis and five Thais were released in Khan Younis earlier, as hundreds of people swarmed round the Red Cross convoy One of the Israeli …

31-01-2025 WASHINGTON: Officials believe that all passengers and crew onboard American Eagle Flight 5342, which collided midair Wednesday evening with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport, were killed, and are pivoting search-and-rescue teams to recovery operations. “At this point, we don’t believe there are any survivors from …

30-01-2025 WASHINGTON: Democrats in the United States Senate have blocked the passage of a bill that would sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) over its issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes in Gaza. The vote on …

30-01-2025 PRAYAGRAJ, INDIA: Arvind Agrawal has been running a business supplying stationery items across India for four decades in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh state. The city is currently hosting the Mahakumbh, often simply called the Kumbh, the world’s largest religious gathering of Hindus. His mobile phone comes alive every few …