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Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency on Saturday and appealed for international assistance as the death toll from heavy rains and flooding caused by Cyclone Ditwah rose to 132, with a further 176 people reported missing.President Anura Kumara Dissanayake invoked emergency laws, granting him wide ...
United States President Donald Trump has intensified his immigration crackdown, declaring a “permanent pause” on migration from what he called “all Third World Countries” following a deadly shooting involving two National Guard members in Washington, DC.The announcement came ...
Russian drone and missile strikes on Kyiv and surrounding areas killed at least three people early Saturday, local authorities said, just hours before a new round of peace negotiations was expected to begin amid growing international efforts to end the war.The Kyiv City Military Administration said ...
Thousands of protesters rallied in the western German city of Giessen on Saturday as the far-right Alternative for Germany prepared to launch its new youth organization.Some demonstrators clashed with police, who used pepper spray and later water cannons to disperse blockades.Police said stones were...
Government officials claim that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi’s attempt to meet jailed PTI founder Imran Khan violates prison regulations, an assertion strongly contested by the PTI, which says its court-sanctioned visiting schedule is being ignored.According to prison author...
President Donald Trump said Thursday that one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot near the White House by an Afghan national has died, describing the suspect as a “savage monster.”Trump told U.S. troops during a Thanksgiving call that Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, had ...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko arrived in Myanmar on a goodwill visit, state media reported Friday, becoming only the second foreign leader to set foot in the country since the military seized power in 2021.The trip comes weeks before a national election widely dismissed by critics as nei...
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will remain in International Criminal Court custody after appeals judges on Friday dismissed a request to free him on medical grounds.Duterte, now in his 80s, is charged with crimes against humanity for allegedly directing or enabling dozens of extrajudici...
At least 145 people have died in severe flooding across southern Thailand, authorities said Friday, as water levels continue to fall and the scale of destruction becomes clearer.The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reported that more than 1.2 million households — involving roug...
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A crew of three from the United States and Russia began their long-duration mission on the International Space Station (ISS) after launching Thursday aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft was sent into orbit at 2:27 p.m. local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, w...
Rescue operations were severely hindered Friday after flash floods and landslides on Sumatra Island killed at least 79 people and left dozens missing, with damaged roads, bridges, and limited heavy equipment slowing relief efforts.Tropical Cyclone Senyar, forming in the Strait of Malacca, has driven...
A three-member U.S.-Russian crew has begun an eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station following a launch from Kazakhstan on Thursday.The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft lifted off at 2:27 p.m. from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Russian cosmo...
Flooding in southern Thailand has claimed at least 145 lives, officials reported Friday, as receding waters reveal widespread devastation across the region.Heavy rains triggered the floods, affecting more than 1.2 million households and around 3.6 million people in 12 southern provinces, according t...
Hong Kong: A fire can be seen at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong’s New Territories, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)Hong Kong firefighters searched through a high-rise tower complex apartment-by-apartment Friday for more victims af...
President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday announced a new voluntary military service for thousands of 18- and 19-year-olds, a move he says will help strengthen France’s armed forces amid rising concerns over Russia’s ambitions in Europe.Speaking at the Varces military base in the French Alps...
An Afghan national has been taken into custody after shooting two West Virginia National Guard members near the White House Wednesday afternoon, leaving the troops hospitalized in critical condition.FBI Director Kash Patel and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed the shooting, while West Virgini...
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is barring South Africa from participating in next year’s G20 summit near Miami and halting all U.S. payments and subsidies to the country over its treatment of a U.S. government representative at this year’s summit.Trump skipped sending a U.S. de...
Families in Myanmar welcomed relatives released from Insein Prison on Thursday as part of a mass amnesty announced by the country’s military rulers ahead of next month’s elections.At least eight buses carrying freed prisoners arrived at the Yangon facility around 11:30 a.m., greeted by r...
A senior Kremlin official on Wednesday confirmed that U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Moscow next week as efforts to find a resolution to the nearly four-year war in Ukraine gain momentum.Yuri Ushakov, foreign affairs adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Kremlin officials ha...
Guinea-Bissau’s military on Thursday announced Gen. Horta N’Ta as the head of a new junta, cementing a coup that followed the country’s tense presidential election earlier this week.State television broadcast a declaration from the military high command confirming N’Ta, forme...
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