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Pakistan has ‘robust’ nuclear security regime: IAEA

October 10, 2026 admin

Image uses for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Pakistan has established a “robust nuclear security regime” for protecting nuclear material and facilities, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said after completing its first physical protection advisory mission to the country. A seven-member IAEA team concluded a 12-day International Physical Protection Advisory Service…

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Navi Pillay | The jurist and a redemption

October 10, 2026 admin

In awarding Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee recognised a jurist whose long career qualifies her as one of the most deserving recipients in the Prize’s 125-year history. Ms. Pillay was born in 1941 in a poor neighbourhood of Durban in a Tamil family. Her grandparents had been brought…

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Mahmoud Abbas postpones Palestinian legislative elections another year

October 10, 2026 admin

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. File | Photo Credit: AP President Mahmoud Abbas postponed what would have been the first Palestinian elections in nearly 20 years, issuing a decree on Friday to further delay voting for the Palestinian Legislative Council almost another year. Rather than take place as scheduled next month, the decree pushes the elections…

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Rights group says paramilitary drone strike in Sudan killed 41 near Ethiopian border

October 10, 2026 admin

Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit. File | Photo Credit: th-online Administrator A drone strike blamed on Sudan’s notorious paramilitaries hit a gathering of displaced people on the border with Ethiopia and killed 41, a rights group said. Friday’s strike by the Rapid Support Forces took place in the Abu Shandi area in…

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Kuwait Airways cancels Riyadh flights due to ‘airport closures’, ‘security situation’

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Kuwait Airways said it had cancelled two flights in and out of Riyadh on October 10, 2026. (Photo: kuwaitairways.com) Kuwait Airways said on Saturday (October 10, 2026) that it had cancelled two flights in and out of Riyadh, citing the closure of the airport and the “security situation” there. “Kuwait Airways announces that flight KU775…

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Eight killed in shooting at Pennsylvania home: local media

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A man shot and killed eight people, including two children, at a home in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania before apparently taking his own life, local media reported. Police in the city of Erie were called Friday around 5:00 p.m. to reports of shots fired and discovered two women dead in the street, the Erie…

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Russian attacks kill 11 in Ukraine after Trump strikes diesel deal with Putin

October 10, 2026 admin

Three children were among the 11 people killed when Russian aerial bombs hit residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, Mykhailo Semikin, head of the regional military administration, said on October 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russian strikes killed at least 11 people in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, officials said on Saturday (October 10, 2026), a day after…

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Russian attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia kills seven, governor says

October 10, 2026 admin

Rescue workers clear the rubble of a residential building destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on October 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Seven people ‌were killed by ⁠a Russian attack on the ‌southern Ukrainian city ‌of ‌Zaporizhzhia ⁠on Saturday ⁠(October 10, 2026) morning, the regional governor said, ‌as rescuers searched for more…

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Starlink row: Musk shares reports on Reliance-linked firm’s BJP campaign role, political donations

October 10, 2026 admin

Elon Musk on Saturday (October 10, 2026) stepped up his attack against industrialist Mukesh Ambani, sharing screenshots of media reports alleging that a Reliance-funded firm helped boost BJP campaigns on social media and that a Reliance-linked company made large political donations to the ruling party. The latest post by Mr. Musk on X featured an…

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Taiwan’s leader says increasing defence spending to ‘deter war’

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Representational image of China and Taiwan relationship. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Taiwan aims to “deter war” by increasing its defence spending, the democratic island’s leader said on Saturday (October 10, 2026), as China uses military pressure to assert its territorial claims. Taiwan’s 23 million people live under the constant threat of an attack by…

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