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Commuters drive along a street in Tehran on October 26, 2024. Residents of Tehran awoke and went about their business as planned on October 26 after their sleep was troubled by Israeli strikes that triggered blasts that echoed across the city. | Photo Credit: AFP Israel bombed military targets in Iran on Saturday (October 26,…
New Delhi: Despite the patrolling agreement with China, which was announced earlier this week, it will take time to rebuild trust and for the two countries to be willing to work with each other, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. During an interaction with students from a university in Pune on Saturday, Mr Jaishankar…
Lahore: Law enforcement agencies have arrested more than a dozen vloggers and TikTokers accusing them of spreading fake stories about an alleged rape of a girl student that led to violent protests across Punjab province over a week ago. Senior Punjab police officer Imran Kishwar said on Saturday that police have also identified 40 students…
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Geneva, Switzerland: The World Health Organization said it has regained contact with staff at a besieged northern Gaza hospital, finding that three health workers had been injured and 44 detained. Kamal Adwan, northern Gaza’s last functioning hospital, “is still under siege, but we managed to get in touch with the staff”, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom…
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Explained: What is UNIFIL? | Video Credit: The Hindu The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is the global body’s peacekeeping force patrolling southern Lebanon. Currently, the group has come under direct fire from the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), which continues to expands its war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Established in 1978 by the…
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Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Covid-19 and Ebola outbreaks brought into stark relief the harms that can come to humans if we interfere too much with nature, placing ourselves in contact with animals carrying unknown pathogens. At the COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, experts and activists have…
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This photo provided by NASA shows Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin being helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN after he, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps landed, in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Friday, | Photo Credit: AP Four astronauts…
Syria expressed its “solidarity” with Iran. Damascus: Syria condemned Israeli air strikes against Iran on Saturday, saying it affirmed its ally’s right to self-defence. Expressing its “solidarity” with Iran, the Syrian foreign ministry said in a statement that it supported “Iran’s legitimate right to defend itself and protect its territory and the lives of its…
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Moscow: Russian authorities announced a manhunt on Saturday after six convicts escaped their correctional facility through a secret tunnel. Prison guards in the western Lipetsk region were alerted to their disappearance after carrying out a routine inspection. “In general regime penal colony No. 2, an underground tunnel was discovered during a patrol of the premises,”…
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New Delhi: An Israeli attack on Iran targeted military sites today, killing two soldiers, almost a month after Israel vowed to avenge a missile barrage that raised fears of a full-scale Middle East war. The airstrikes hit Iran’s missile manufacturing units. Here’s your 5-point cheat sheet to this big story Today’s Israeli airstrikes on Iran…
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