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A health worker dressed in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in a room at an Ebola isolation facility at The Nairobi Hospital, Kenya. | Photo Credit: AP Kenya’s Health Ministry announced the country’s second Ebola death on Friday (October 23, 2026), saying a 65-year-old woman who was a close relative of the first patient died after…
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Days ahead of close-fought Israeli elections, campaigns have gone into overdrive with poor-taste jibes and inflammatory attacks against candidates, sometimes crossing red lines. Fuelled in part by a boom in AI-generated images flooding social media, candidates and activists are seeking to portray their opponents as weak, untrustworthy or damaging for the country as they play…
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The United States appears to be preparing to resume large-scale strikes against Iran, but there is unlikely to be a military solution for either side in the devastating conflict, experts said. Washington and Tehran’s forces have settled into a pattern of strikes on commercial ships, with the United States seeking to enforce a blockade of…
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File photo of DMK Lok Sabha member Dayanidhi Maran. | Photo Credit: The Hindu DMK Lok Sabha member Dayanidhi Maran has written to Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Rajiv Ranjan Singh, urging him to review the proposed Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Control and Supervision of Experiment, Breeding and Trading of Laboratory…
The story so far: A two-year-old boy died in Alappuzha district’s Karthikapally, near Haripad, on October 18 allegedly owing to severe malnutrition and acute anaemia. The death occurred when the boy’s mother was admitted to Government Medical College Hospital, Vandanam, for giving birth. The boy weighed around 7.5 kg against the average weight of 12…
France will deploy about 70,000 police nationwide as it braces for new protests on Saturday (October 24, 2026) after some of the worst urban violence in years erupted on the sidelines of demonstrations a week ago. Protests by high school students over learning conditions sparked a movement that has since spread nationwide, fuelled by broader…
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Odisha’s Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari. Photo Credit: X@sureshkpujari The Odisha Government has filed a contempt of court petition against the Andhra Pradesh Government in the Supreme Court, challenging its notification to conduct panchayat elections in the disputed Kotia region in the state’s Koraput district. Odisha’s Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari…
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The newly made allotrope closely resembled two jungle gyms, a.k.a. climbing frames, smushed together. | Photo Credit: Public domain The Hindu’s weekly Science for All newsletter explains all things Science, without the jargon (This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun…
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Around 500 protesters from students, youth, women, farmers, and civil society organisations, under the banner of ‘People Against SIR’ marched through Central Delhi on Friday (October 23, 2026), demanding the rollback of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar. The march was part of…
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Ukraine’s top negotiator involved in a humanitarian mission led by U.S. first lady Melania Trump told The Associated Press that a local ceasefire with Russia will start Tuesday (October 27, 2026) — two days before the mission begins — and last several days. Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. negotiators reached a deal on Friday (October 23,…
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