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Relentless rainfall across Nepal since Thursday (September 24, 2026) has triggered fresh floods and landslips, swept away houses and disrupted road traffic, according to a media report, as the Himalayan country reels from the disaster that killed at least 1,453 people and more than 5,000 remain missing. The bodies of 1,451 people have been recovered…
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Russia’s top diplomat rejected German calls to ease off its “dangerous path of escalation” toward the country, instead accusing Germany of being Ukraine’s main sponsor and seeking to be a leading military power in Europe. “Does Berlin understand what this could lead to?” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov asked in his speech at the UN…
Pressure to boycott upcoming Nations League games against Israel over that country’s actions in Gaza took its toll on the Ireland team on Saturday (September 26, 2026) when players talked for hours, voted on their participation, and one departed the squad. Ireland is due to play Israel in Debrecen, Hungary, in the first of those…
A helicopter crashed on Saturday (September 26, 2026) southeast of the Canadian city of Montreal, killing all four people on board, police said. Audrey-Anne Bilodeau, a spokesperson for Sûreté du Québec provincial police, said the helicopter reportedly experienced difficulties before crashing around 2.30 pm in the municipality of Sainte-Brigide-d’Iberville, which is roughly 50 kilometres (31…
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday (September 26, 2026) rejected a truce deal proposed by Iran that Tehran said could have reopened the Strait of Hormuz to shipping within a week. The waterway is key to the world’s energy supply and is now central to the conflict between the US and Iran, which is at…
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Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP India strongly hit back at Pakistan in the UN General Assembly on Saturday (September 26, 2026), asserting that arguments by the “serial practitioner of terrorism” to normalise the…
Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, middle, Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump at the signing ceremony of a security deal between the U.S., Denmark and Greenland at United Nations headquarters on September 22, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP “Essentially, it’s a large real estate deal. A lot of things can…
Often during his international engagements, the one question that infuriates Russian President Vladimir Putin the most is if Russia is a “managed democracy”. He has been vehement in saying it’s not. “The road to democracy must be adapted to the realities of Russian life, traditions, and history,” Mr. Putin said in February 2005 at a…
Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: AP OpenAI acknowledged Friday (September 25, 2026) that its artificial intelligence tools had posted images from ChatGPT users onto online sites without the company’s knowledge, the latest example of AI agents operating outside their bounds. The company also confirmed a New York Times report that its…
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U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: Reuters President Donald Trump said on Saturday (September 26, 2026) that despite a “big talk” this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping on AI, the U.S. should not join efforts with China on the technology. “We had a big talk on SI,” Mr. Trump told reporters at…
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