Satellite reveals damage from Israeli attack at 2 bases in Iran
An Israeli attack on Iran damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital that experts in the past have linked to Tehran’s onetime nuclear weapons programme and at another base tied to its ballistic missile programme, satellite photos analysed Sunday by The Associated Press show. Some of...
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Georgia’s pro-Western opposition disputes election result that could decide EU path
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Immigration: A key issue in US election campaign
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‘Israeli strikes kill 22 in northern Gaza’
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Apparent truck attack on bus stop near Mossad HQ in Israel wounds dozens
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Russian strikes in Ukraine kill 2 teenagers
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10 officers dead in attack on police convoy in Iran
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Commonwealth nations adopt 1st ocean declaration
27 October 2024 | AP
Dhaka court scraps 2015 case against Khaleda Zia
A court here has scrapped a case against former prime minister Khaleda Zia and three others over the death of 42 people across the country during the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s blockade programme and general strikes in 2015. Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ziadur Rahman passed the order on Thursday, accepting a...
Harris warns of ‘brutally serious’ consequences if Trump wins
Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama lent their star power to Kamala Harris’ quest for the presidency on Thursday, as the vice president implored Georgia voters to consider the “brutally serious” consequences if Donald Trump wins a second term in the White House. Harris asked voters to imagine who’ll be sitting in...
Trump says China’s leader will bully Harris ‘like a baby’
Donald Trump said Thursday that China’s leader would handle Vice President Kamala Harris “like a baby” if she’s elected to the White House, as the former president and his top allies increasingly have moved to infantilise the Democratic nominee. “If somehow Kamala wins, she’d have to deal with Xi Jinping,” conservative...
Kurdish militants claim attack on Turkish defence firm
A banned Kurdish militant group on Friday claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of a key defence company in Ankara that killed at least five people. A statement from the military wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK, said Wednesday’s attack on the premises of the aerospace and defence...
thirty-three killed in landslides after storm hits Manila
A Philippine provincial police chief said Friday that 33 people were killed mostly in landslides set off by Tropical Storm Trami in a province south of Manila. The deaths caused by landslides and flash floods in Batangas province brings to 65 the overall death toll from Trami, which blew away Friday...
Zelenskyy claims N Korean troops will be deployed by Russia in coming days
North Korean troops are poised to be deployed by Russia on the battlefield in Ukraine as early as this weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed Friday. Western officials have warned that such a development would stoke the almost three-year war and bring geopolitical consequences as far away as the Indo-Pacific region. Zelenskyy...
FOUR astronauts return to Earth after delays
Four astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing’s capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton. A SpaceX capsule carrying the crew parachuted before dawn into the Gulf of Mexico just off the Florida coast after undocking from the International Space Station mid-week. The three Americans...
