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Car bomb kills senior Russian general near Moscow 

25 April 2025

News|Russia-Ukraine war A senior Russian general has been killed after a home-made explosive device ripped through a par...

Russia kills 5 people in Ukraine as US envoy Witkoff arrives in Moscow 

25 April 2025

United States President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Moscow for a meeting with President Vladimir...

‘We’re cursed’: Kashmiris under attack across India after Pahalgam killings 

25 April 2025

New Delhi, India – Walking through the narrow and crowded lanes of Jalandhar, a city in the northern state of Punjab, ...

Japan introduces urgent economic measures to ease pain from US tariffs 

25 April 2025

News|Business and Economy Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced emergency economic measures to alleviate ...

Why the Palestinian Authority’s Abbas is under pressure to pick a successor 

25 April 2025

The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), under pressure to appoint a second-in-command to its ageing leader, Mahmo...

Pope Francis’s funeral to be less costly than his predecessors’ 

25 April 2025

As hundreds of millions of people around the world mourn the passing of Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic Church is prepa...

India, Pakistan trade gunfire as tensions rise over deadly Kashmir attack 

25 April 2025

Indian and Pakistani forces have exchanged fire along the Line of Control (LOC) separating the two countries as the UN c...

Yemen’s Houthi fighters down $200m worth of US drones in under six weeks 

25 April 2025

Yemen’s Houthi armed group has shot down seven US Reaper drones worth more than $200m in recent weeks, marking the mos...

Trump signs controversial order to boost deep-sea mining industry 

25 April 2025

United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to expand the controversial but financially lucrative...

Nepal village ravaged by 2015 earthquake now a reluctant tourist hotspot 

25 April 2025

Langtang, Nepal – On the morning of April 25, 2015, Nima Chhiring Tamang, 30, left his home in northern Nepal’s Lang...