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Iran responds to U.S. ceasefire proposal but Trump rejects it as ‘unacceptable’

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Iran responds to U.S. ceasefire proposal but Trump rejects it as ‘unacceptable’

U.S. President Donald Trump earlier on social media accused Tehran of “playing games” with the United States for nearly 50 years. File. | Photo Credit: AP Iran sent its response to the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal via Pakistani mediators and wants negotiations to focus on permanently ending the war, but President Donald Trump quickly rejected…

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Syria sets first cabinet reshuffle since Assad ouster, state media reports

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Syria sets first cabinet reshuffle since Assad ouster, state media reports

Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa replaced governors in the provinces of Homs, al-Quneitra ‌and Deir Ezzor, the eastern province where most of Syria’s oil fields are located. File | Photo Credit: AP Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced a series of government changes in ‌late-night presidential decrees published by State news agency SANA. Mr. Sharaa appointed…

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Militia kill at least 69 in DR Congo: local, security sources

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Militia kill at least 69 in DR Congo: local, security sources

For more than 30 years the mineral-rich eastern DRC has been a battleground between various armed groups, vying for control of its many mines. | Photo Credit: AFP A militia attack killed at least 69 people in Ituri province in the conflict-torn northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), local and security sources told…

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India, Trinidad and Tobago sign eight MoUs during Jaishankar visit

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India, Trinidad and Tobago sign eight MoUs during Jaishankar visit

In this image posted on Sunday, May 10, 2026, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar interacts with the Indian diaspora of Trinidad and Tobago at a community event during the concluding leg of his three-nation Caribbean tour, after visiting Jamaica and Suriname, in Port of Spain. | Photo Credit: PTI India and Trinidad and Tobago have…

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15 security officials killed in militant attack in northwest Pakistan

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15 security officials killed in militant attack in northwest Pakistan

A worker clear rubble with an excavator as a police officer and local residents gather at the site of overnight suicide bombing at a security post in Fatah Khel, in Bannu, a district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan on Saturday (May 10, 2026). | Photo Credit: AP At least 15 security officials were…

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Explosion at coal mine in Colombia, at least four trapped

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Explosion at coal mine in Colombia, at least four trapped

At least four people were trapped underground after an explosion in a coal mine in central Colombia, where a similar accident left nine dead a week ago, authorities said on Sunday (May 10, 2026). The explosion happened on Saturday (May 9) afternoon at the Las Quintas mine in Pueblo Viejo, a village in Cucunuba municipality,…

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Bangladesh’s HC rejects detained Hindu monk’s bail petition

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Bangladesh’s HC rejects detained Hindu monk’s bail petition

Brahmachari Chinmoy Krishna Das is being escorted by the police at the Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Court, in Chattogram, Bangladesh, November 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Bangladesh’s High Court on Sunday (May 10, 2026) rejected a bail petition of Hindu monk Brahmachari Chinmoy Krishna Das since he is being tried in a lower court in…

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U.K.’s Starmer says his government is a ten-year project despite calls to quit

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U.K.’s Starmer says his government is a ten-year project despite calls to quit

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. File picture | Photo Credit: AP British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ‌vowed to fight on and said his government was ​a “10-year project” despite calls to quit after his party’s ⁠drubbing in local elections earlier this week. Mr. Starmer’s Labour Party recorded the worst losses of a governing party in…

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Non-binary Indian migrant elected member of Scottish Parliament

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Non-binary Indian migrant elected member of Scottish Parliament

The newly elected member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) secured a win on the Edinburgh and Lothians East list for the pro-independence Scottish Greens. Photo: Instagram/Dr Q Manivannan India-born anthropologist, Q. Manivannan, who identifies as non-binary, has been elected to the devolved Scottish Parliament on a platform of “kinder politics” for the region. The newly…

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Indonesian rescuers find hikers’ bodies after volcanic eruption

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Indonesian rescuers find hikers’ bodies after volcanic eruption

In this photo released by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) rescuers carry the body of a victim of the eruption of Mount Dukono, on Halmahera Island, Indonesia, Saturday, May 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Indonesian rescuers retrieved on Sunday (May 10, 2026) the remains of two Singaporean hikers killed in a…

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