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Jamaican reggae music pioneer Jimmy Cliff dies

Jamaican reggae music pioneer Jimmy Cliff dies

Kingston [Jamaica], November 25: Jimmy Cliff, the charismatic reggae pioneer and actor who preached joy, defiance and resilience in his...

Ukraine allies give cautious welcome to 'modified' peace framework

Ukraine allies give cautious welcome to 'modified' peace...

Kyiv [Ukraine], November 25: European allies of Ukraine have given a cautious welcome to efforts to refine a United States...

Israel's attacks threaten truce, Hamas tells Egypt's spy chief

Israel's attacks threaten truce, Hamas tells Egypt's spy...

Cairo [Egypt], November 25: A senior delegation from Hamas has met Egypt's intelligence chief in Cairo to discuss Israel's breaches...

Malaysia says it will ban social media for under-16s from next year

Malaysia says it will ban social media for...

Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], November 25: Malaysia plans to ban social media for users under the age of 16 starting from...

US adds Venezuelan 'Cartel of the Suns' to terror list as military threat rises

US adds Venezuelan 'Cartel of the Suns' to...

Washington [US], November 25: The United States has designated what Venezuelans call the "Cartel de los Soles", or "Cartel of...

Six killed in suicide attack in Pakistan's Peshawar

Six killed in suicide attack in Pakistan's Peshawar

Peshawar [Pakistan], November 25: Three suicide attackers have attacked the headquarters of a paramilitary force in the Pakistani city of...

Sudan's de facto ruler rejects US proposal for a ceasefire

Sudan's de facto ruler rejects US proposal for...

Khartoum [Sudan], November 25: Sudan's de facto president Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan has strongly rejected a US proposal for a ceasefire...

Voters in Slovenia reject assisted dying law for terminally ill people

Voters in Slovenia reject assisted dying law for...

Budapest [Hungary], November 25: Voters in Slovenia rejected a bill that would have allowed terminally ill people to end their...

Separatist candidate wins presidential vote in Bosnia's Serb region

Separatist candidate wins presidential vote in Bosnia's Serb...

Sarajevo [Bosnia and Herzegovina], November 25: A close ally of Bosnia's Serb Republic separatist leader Milorad Dodik won a snap...

Majority of Slovenians voted against law on assisted dying

Majority of Slovenians voted against law on assisted...

Ljubljana [Slovenia], November 25: As many as 53.43% Slovenians voted against a law that proposed legalising assisted dying for some...

Australia's teen social media ban pushes content creators to look abroad

Australia's teen social media ban pushes content creators...

Sydney [Australia], November 25: Australia is home for YouTube star Jordan Barclay, the place where he was born, went to...

Israel kills Hezbollah military leader in Beirut strike

Israel kills Hezbollah military leader in Beirut strike

Jerusalem [Israel], November 25: Israel killed militant group Hezbollah's top military official in an airstrike on a southern suburb of...

Toxic mines put Southeast Asia's rivers, people at risk

Toxic mines put Southeast Asia's rivers, people at...

Bangkok [Thailand], November 25: For most of her life, 59-year-old farmer Tip Kamlue has irrigated her fields in northern Thailand...

Seven killed in tourist bus overturn in Mexico

Seven killed in tourist bus overturn in Mexico

Mexico City [Mexico], November 24: Seven people were killed and at least 20 others injured when a tourist bus overturned...

EU, United States to resume trade talks Monday to resolve outstanding issues

EU, United States to resume trade talks Monday...

Brussels [Belgium], November 24: The European Union and the United States will resume trade negotiations on Monday in Brussels after...

Nepal adds more than 8,00,000 new voters in latest round of roll update ahead of March election

Nepal adds more than 8,00,000 new voters in...

Kathmandu [Nepal], November 24: A total of 8,37,094 new voters has been added to the electoral roll following the completion...

COP30 ends with finance boost but no fossil fuel roadmap

COP30 ends with finance boost but no fossil...

Belem [Brazil], November 24: The COP30 climate summit in Belem closed with a compromise agreement that expands financial support for...

Over 90 people dead in Vietnam floods

Over 90 people dead in Vietnam floods

Hanoi [Vietnam], November 24: The toll from flooding in Vietnam has risen to 102 people dead or missing, with thousands...

Iran sanctions mean life-saving medication in short supply

Iran sanctions mean life-saving medication in short supply

Tehran [Iran], November 24: "Many life-saving drugs are no longer available," said an Iranian pharmacist who wished to remain anonymous,...

Indonesia declared Polio-free by WHO

Indonesia declared Polio-free by WHO

Jakarta [Indonesia], November 24: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has officially declared the end of Indonesia's poliovirus type-2 outbreak, marking...

Bolsonaro tells Brazil judge paranoia from meds made him tamper with ankle monitor

Bolsonaro tells Brazil judge paranoia from meds made...

Brasília [Brazil], November 24: Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he experienced a medicine-induced "paranoia" that led him...

Former Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia hospitalised with chest infection, under intensive observation

Former Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia hospitalised with chest...

Dhaka [Bangladesh], November 24: Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia, has been admitted to Evercare Hospital in Bashundhara after...

Fifty kidnapped Catholic school students in Nigeria escape

Fifty kidnapped Catholic school students in Nigeria escape

Abuja [Nigeria], November 24: Fifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school last week have...

Trump accuses Ukraine of ingratitude as officials meet in Geneva on US peace plan

Trump accuses Ukraine of ingratitude as officials meet...

Kyiv [Ukraine], November 24: Ukrainian, U.S. and European officials met in Geneva on Sunday to discuss a draft plan presented...

Zelenskiy says Ukraine is grateful for efforts by US, Trump

Zelenskiy says Ukraine is grateful for efforts by...

Kyiv [Ukraine], November 24: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Ukraine was grateful to the United States and to...

US to launch new phase of Venezuela operations, sources say

US to launch new phase of Venezuela operations,...

Washington [US], November 24: The United States is poised to launch a new phase of Venezuela-related operations in the coming...

'Geneva negotiators working on changes to Trump peace plan'

'Geneva negotiators working on changes to Trump peace...

Washington [US], November 24: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said US, European and Ukrainian officials are busy making...