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‘The UNEP report does not capture the full extent of the environmental devastation in Gaza, as the situation continues to deteriorate’ | Photo Credit: AFP On November 5, 2001, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) designated November 6 each year as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed…
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President Donald Trump faced the worst political setback of his current term in office after the Republican Party lost control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives in the mid-term election. Democrats not only won resoundingly in their traditional stronghold States, such as Colorado, Oregon and Illinois, and held onto important swing States,…
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U.S. First Lady Melania Trump delivers remarks following a meeting with representatives from Russia and Ukraine, following the expiry of a six-day ceasefire to evacuate civilians from the Russian-occupied southern Ukrainian town of Oleshky, at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., on November 5, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. First Lady Melania Trump…
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The building collapse in old Delhi’s Chawri Bazar triggered a political war of words, with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of “rampant extortion” and “corruption”. “The Rekha Gupta government and the MCD [Municipal Corporation of Delhi] have conducted multiple safety audits of buildings across Delhi, yet buildings continue to collapse. Why? Safety audits have been ordered repeatedly, but instead of taking…
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JCB machines carry out rescue operations at the site of a building collapse at Satya Niketan in South-West Delhi, in New Delhi on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ANI Nearly two months after a five-storey paying guest (PG) accommodation in south Delhi’s Satya Niketan collapsed, killing seven persons and leaving several others injured, the Delhi police on Thursday…
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A Nigerian court on Thursday (November 5, 2026) declared invalid the nomination of Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate for the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC), just two months before the country’s elections. The party, which accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of involvement in the lawsuit, will appeal, its spokesman said — but…
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Virat Kohli is at that stage of his career where he is thoroughly enjoying himself. It’s not as if he isn’t as driven as previously; it’s just that, having shouldered the burden of the Indian batting for so long, he feels he has earned the right to express himself with greater freedom than ever before,…
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TNCC president B. Manickam Tagore. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM TNCC president Manickam Tagore on Thursday alleged that opposition parties were attempting to destabilise the TVK-led government by approaching its MLAs. Supporting Minister C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar’s allegation that the DMK and AIADMK were attempting to poach TVK MLAs with the BJP’s support, he said…
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Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy has directed officials to assess the damage caused to crops, roads, irrigation facilities and electricity infrastructure by the heavy rains triggered by Cyclone Murasu in the erstwhile undivided Khammam district on a war-footing. The Minister asked the Collectors to submit detailed estimates of the cyclone-related damage to the government within…
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Turkish gendarmerie vehicle parked next to a car following a forensic inspection where people were killed by a gunman in Afyonkarahisar on November 5, 2026. Photo: AFP via news agency DHA. Eight people were shot dead in three villages in west-central Turkiye on Thursday (November 5, 2026), local officials said, as police pressed a major…
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