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A planned US-Saudi atomic deal does not include Riyadh signing the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Additional Protocol that gives the UN nuclear watchdog sweeping inspection powers, but something close to it on some points is in the works, the agency's chief said on Monday. The US a...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 1:12 pm
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As the unofficial start of the campaign sprint kicks off on Labour Day Monday, United States President Donald Trump's deep unpopularity is imperilling Republican chances of maintaining their narrow majorities in Congress with just two months before November's midterm elections. Midterm elections...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 11:30 am
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A top official within the US-backed Board of Peace said on Monday that a failure to move forward in Gaza paired with rising violence in the West Bank are making a two-state solution "impossible". Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza under the US-backed Board of Peace tasked with i...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 10:27 am
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The United Nations rights chief warned on Monday that artificial intelligence could pose an "existential threat to humanity", demanding immediate action to reduce the risks. Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council, Volker Turk warned that humans currently faced "unfamiliar, even unpreceden...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 9:16 am
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Nepal held a national day of mourning on Monday for victims of devastating glacial floods, as families of missing hydropower workers feared trapped in tunnels prayed rescuers might yet find them alive. The August 26 glacial and mountain collapse on the China-Nepal border killed at least 1,398 people...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 8:24 am
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US President Donald Trump's name-changing spree found an unlikely new target on Sunday when he suggested the state of New Mexico could become "New America". His proposal, which was immediately dismissed by the state's governor, comes days after he signed an order to rename Lake Ontario as �...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 5:17 am
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• Kushner says talks produced new ideas for advancing peace, while White House says substantive plans could be announced in coming weeks• US diplomats meet Putin in Moscow before holding talks with Zelensky in Kyiv KYIV: US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner said Sunday he hoped...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 3:14 am
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ARABSALIM: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun urged Washington and the international community to help stop Israeli attacks after strikes on Sunday killed at least seven people despite a truce and an Israel-Lebanon deal. Mr Aoun said Sunday's strikes, which damaged government premises and destroyed an...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 3:11 am
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Pakistan on Sunday dispatched 100 tonnes of humanitarian assistance to Nepal to support relief efforts following the recent deadly floods and landslides. The glacial and mountain collapse on the China-Nepal border killed at least 1,384 people and left more than 5,500 missing across the two countries...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 6:58 pm
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Iran's top negotiator on Sunday threatened a more forceful response to any further US attacks after Tehran targeted American warships in their latest round of clashes. The exchanges of fire, which began with US raids last week, come amid a deadlock in the six-month war between the two foes. Iran h...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 6:32 pm
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Germany's far-right AfD won a landslide victory in a key regional election Sunday in the ex-communist east, taking at least 44 per cent of the vote according to exit polls by two public broadcasters. "We have made history today," said a jubilant Ulrich Siegmund, the 35-year-old lead candidate ...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 5:30 pm
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Pakistan on Sunday condemned the demolition of a century-old mosque in India's Uttar Pradesh, describing it as part of an "Islamophobic and Hindutva-driven campaign to erase the Islamic heritage" in the country. Responding to media queries regarding the demolition, Foreign Office (FO) spokespe...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 2:45 pm
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Rajendra Dawadi was inside his school near Nepal's Trishuli River with around 900 students last week when a colleague delivered an urgent warning. "My accountant came to the school and said, 'The flood is coming, the flood is coming'," the school principal told AFP in a recent interview. D...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 12:48 pm
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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar held phone calls with Saudi Arabian and Turkish foreign ministers on Sunday and followed up on the understandings reached at the inaugural meeting of the Makkah Defence Alliance last month, the Foreign Office (FO) said. The joint defence pact was ...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 12:03 pm
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Indian police publicly thrashed a man accused of beating his partner to death, local media reported on Sunday, drawing mixed reactions after footage of the flogging spread online. Public parading and beatings of suspects by police are not uncommon in India, despite Supreme Court rulings prohibiting ...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 11:52 am
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Pakistan was among the Muslim nations on Sunday that condemned Israeli ministers' statements regarding the displacement of the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip, including proposals for plans and mechanisms aimed at forcibly removing them from their land. Earlier this week, Israel's Nationa...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 10:40 am
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An eruption of Indonesia's Mount Anak Krakatau caused six airports to suspend flight operations on Sunday, affecting hundreds of flights at Jakarta's main airport, after some school activities and fishing were halted. Soekarno-Hatta International Airport suspended flight operations until 1:30pm ...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 10:02 am
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Posted on 6 September 2026 | 5:29 am
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WASHINGTON: America's midterm elections opened on Friday in a fog of confusion over mail voting, with ballots already going out as President Donald Trump presses courts to let him impose sweeping new restrictions on how they are handled. North Carolina became the first state authorised to begin se...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 5:24 am
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JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities carried out a water bombing operation on Saturday to prevent wildfires from spreading in the future capital city Nusantara, a city official told AFP. The archipelago is constructing a new capital city in Borneo, home to vast tropical ...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 5:20 am
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WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has launched a lie-detector dragnet to comb through high-ranking military officials and identify who leaked information about US munitions stockpiles, according to US press reports. In July, reports emerged that the United States was rationing munitions — its mis...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 5:13 am
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• White House weighs candidates to replace Feinberg• Pentagon says deputy chief has Hegseth's full support• Secretary faces pressure over efforts to rebuild US munitions stockpiles WASHINGTON: The White House has reviewed candidates to potentially replace Deputy Secretary of Defence Steve ...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 3:09 am
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• Iran vows to carry out more severe strikes against military vessels if 'blockade' continues• Hegseth says Tehran's oil tanker fleet 'defenceless'• US citizens in Bahrain urged to 'exercise heightened vigilance' DUBAI: US forces struck three Iranian oil tankers on Saturday, US C...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 2:35 am
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Russian President Vladimir Putin began talks with US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff on ending more than four years of war in Ukraine in the Kremlin Saturday, ahead of their first visit to Kyiv expected on Sunday. Both Russia and Ukraine vowed not to strike each other's capitals for three d...
Posted on 5 September 2026 | 6:52 pm
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Nearly 130 countries on Saturday agreed on a text defining lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) — "killer robots" to their critics — a first step towards talks on a possible international treaty to regulate them. The text agreed upon has not yet been made public — but campaign groups f...
Posted on 5 September 2026 | 6:32 pm
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The US ambassador to Israel said on Saturday there was no plan underway to force Palestinians out of Gaza, after Israeli ministers laid out ideas on how to expel the war-battered territory's two million people. "I can tell you categorically there is no plan of the Israelis to displace people out...
Posted on 5 September 2026 | 3:11 pm
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Fighting between Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces and the country's Houthi rebels killed more than 60 people on Saturday, including civilians, medical and military sources told AFP. The renewed clashes in Yemen's southwest over control of a gateway to the Red Sea came after Friday saw so...
Posted on 5 September 2026 | 1:00 pm
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Rescuers in Nepal pulled a Chinese national alive on Saturday from a tunnel buried by debris, as emergency response teams dug with new vigour in the search for missing people 10 days after catastrophic flooding. A joint rescue team comprising personnel from the Nepal Army and foreign experts rescued...
Posted on 5 September 2026 | 9:31 am
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The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging in federal court that the tech companies copied the newspapers' journalism without permission to train their AI systems. The suit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York alleges that OpenAI and...
Posted on 5 September 2026 | 8:11 am
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Two explosions at an army barracks in Bolivia killed at least two people and wounded 81 on Friday, authorities said. Defence Minister Ernesto Justiniano said "pyrotechnic material" was stored at the base in Viacha, southwest of Bolivia's administrative capital La Paz. The exact cause of the bl...
Posted on 5 September 2026 | 6:34 am