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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar held a telephone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday, calling for restraint and de-escalation as tensions rose in the Middle East with a fresh wave of attacks by the US on Iran and retaliatory strikes at US assets and bases...
Posted on 12 July 2026 | 8:21 am
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US Senator Lindsey Graham passed away on Saturday evening after a brief and sudden illness, the communications director for his office said in a post on X early on Sunday. Graham, 71, was a prominent Republican senator from South Carolina. Earlier in his career, he was a vocal critic of US President...
Posted on 12 July 2026 | 7:51 am
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Qatar's government on Sunday announced the death of former leader Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who led the country from 1995 to 2013. "With hearts steadfast in faith in God's decree and destiny, the Bureau of the emir mourns the great loss to the nation of the late — may God have mercy...
Posted on 12 July 2026 | 7:29 am
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The US military launched fresh strikes on Iran after the latter struck a container ship on Sunday while Tehran said it had again closed the Strait of Hormuz and escalated attacks on US facilities in states across the Gulf. A series of attacks between the US and Iran over the past several days led...
Posted on 12 July 2026 | 6:07 am
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ANKARA: Turkiye's health ministry has fined more than 100 obstetrician-gynaecologists for carrying out Caesarean sections, suspending them from duty and forcing them to undergo training, BirGun newspaper reported on Saturday. The country has the highest rate of C-section births among the OECD's ...
Posted on 12 July 2026 | 5:31 am
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WASHINGTON: The New York Times said on Saturday that the US Department of Justice had ordered several of its journalists to testify before a federal grand jury after they reported on security concerns involving President Donald Trump's new Qatari-donated Air Force One. The media organisation said ...
Posted on 12 July 2026 | 5:15 am
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KYIV: Russia struck Ukraine with missiles, drones and guided bombs on Saturday, killing eight people and wounding dozens of others, officials said. Missiles also hit the capital Kyiv, wounding 12 people including two children, according to the city's mayor. Journalists in Kyiv heard two series of ...
Posted on 12 July 2026 | 5:11 am
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DHAKA: Floods and landslides triggered by days of torrential monsoon rain have killed at least 44 people in southeastern Bangladesh and left over a million stranded as authorities raced on Saturday to deliver aid to devastated communities. The disaster management ministry said on Saturday that flood...
Posted on 12 July 2026 | 5:02 am
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Posted on 12 July 2026 | 4:18 am
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Posted on 12 July 2026 | 3:53 am
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• Israeli strikes continue in southern Lebanon despite truce• Visiting US lawmaker Ro Khanna detained by armed Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank BEIRUT/ TURMUS AYYA: A US military delegation met with Lebanon's army in Beirut to discuss the implementation of Israel's withdrawal from a �...
Posted on 12 July 2026 | 3:14 am
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A speedboat carrying Indian tourists capsized off southern Vietnam's Phu Quoc island on Saturday, killing at least 15 people, state media reported. The boat was carrying 36 people when it overturned around 400 metres off May Rut Ngoai islet, according to the VNExpress website. Multiple tourist and...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 5:04 pm
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei on Saturday vowed revenge for the US-Israeli killing of his father and predecessor, hours after President Donald Trump warned against any attempt to assassinate him. Both sides dialled up the rhetoric after exchanges of fire this week rocked an inte...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 4:15 pm
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US Democratic lawmaker Ro Khanna said he was detained by Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles during a West Bank visit this week that he cast as an unfiltered look at the human toll of Israeli occupation as he weighs a 2028 presidential run. Speaking with Reuters on Thursday in a Palestinian v...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 11:34 am
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New Zealand and India announced on Saturday a "strategic partnership" encompassing defence and security, during a landmark visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon feted his guest with an indigenous Maori welcome and guard of honour, seeking to expand relations aft...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 8:52 am
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Posted on 11 July 2026 | 8:04 am
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China evacuated more than 600,000 people on Saturday ahead of Typhoon Bavi hitting the major eastern city of Wenzhou after pummelling Japan's southern Sakishima island chain with heavy rain and violent winds and brushing past northern Taiwan. Even as Bavi continues to slow and weaken on its northw...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 6:48 am
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WASHINGTON: Four US senators said on Friday they had reached agreement with President Donald Trump to advance bipartisan legislation targeting countries buying Russian energy — potentially clearing the way for stronger pressure on Moscow over its war in Ukraine. Republicans Lindsey Graham and Roge...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 3:18 am
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump faces questions about the security of his new Air Force One plane gifted by Qatar, after he took an older jet home from a Nato summit this week. The billionaire president has barely been able to contain his excitement over the retrofitted Boeing 747-8 aircraft, ...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 3:11 am
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BRUSSELS: Meta must change Facebook and Instagram's "addictive design" or face a heavy fine, the EU warned on Friday. Brussels accused the US tech giant of failing to limit the risks the platforms posed to users, especially children and vulnerable adults, because of features designed to keep t...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 3:00 am
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KEELUNG: Fifteen people were killed in landslides in the Philippines and thousands in Taiwan were evacuated from their homes as the biggest typhoon in decades neared the region on Friday. Typhoon Bavi is expected to pound Taiwan's north and east, as well as Japan's remote southwestern islands, ...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 2:55 am
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LONDON: Some of the world's biggest carmakers largely won the first stage of a major legal battle on Friday over claims that their diesel vehicles were fitted with unlawful "defeat devices" that led to higher emissions. In a summary of her judgement, Judge Sara Cockerill said she had "reject...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 2:51 am
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Posted on 11 July 2026 | 2:50 am
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• Races to pass key laws before Knesset dissolves on July 15• Military exemption bill for ultra-Orthodox, media, attorney general reforms draw fears of power grab• Opposition slams government for prioritising politics over national interest JERUSALEM: With the Israeli parliament set to dissolv...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 2:41 am
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Ann Widdecombe, a former minister, speaks at a meeting of the British government's environment council at Southend-on-Sea on March 1, 2022. Then Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, also attended the meeting.—Reuters/file LONDON: British police arrested a man on Friday on suspic...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 1:05 am
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has terminated the last three members of the Election Assistance Commission, the independent, federal commission that assists election administration officials nationwide, the White House has confirmed. The remaining three commissioners of the four-member bipa...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 1:04 am
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As flames approached their homes and the smoke-filled air became choking, panicked residents in rural Andalusian villages around Los Gallardos in southern Spain chose to flee, a decision some paid for with their lives. Firefighters on Friday were still trying to contain one of Spain's deadliest wi...
Posted on 10 July 2026 | 12:13 pm
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi lands in New Zealand on Friday touting a free trade deal that has sparked a backlash despite promises it will unlock jobs and economic riches. On the agenda are trade, tourism and sport — but recent undercurrents of anti-migrant sentiment risk tarnishing his ...
Posted on 10 July 2026 | 6:13 am
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Scientists have detected the highly contagious H5 bird flu in an Australian seabird for the first time, the government said on Friday. Australia was for years the only continental landmass to be free of the H5 strain, which has caused severe disease and high death rates in poultry and wild birds wor...
Posted on 10 July 2026 | 5:31 am
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• Beirut demands Israeli withdrawal before Rome talks on July 15-16• Official says US-backed pilot zones to place Lebanese army in control within days• Amnesty calls for Israeli strikes on civilians to be investigated as war crimes BEIRUT: A US delegation is expected to arrive in Lebanon soon ...
Posted on 10 July 2026 | 2:29 am