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Bangkok authorities declared a flood disaster across the Thai capital on Saturday after almost 48 hours of heavy rain left canals full, roads submerged and residents knee-deep in water. The governor urged people to stay home after almost 300 millimetres of rain fell since Thursday afternoon, while P...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 8:20 am
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said that any attempt by India to divert Pakistan's share of water would be treated as an "act of war". "Any attempt to stop, impede or divert Pakistan's share of the waters will be treated as an act of war. India must make no mistake about it," he...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 7:57 am
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Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye have expressed a shared determination to "immediately translate" their commitments under the Makkah Defence Alliance into effective military cooperation, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Saturday. The commitment was made at a meeting of Chief ...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 7:56 am
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Iran offered a plan to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Tehran said on Friday, but within hours, reports indicated that US President Donald Trump rejected the proposal. The waterway, key to the world's oil supply, is central to the conflict between the United States and Iran, which is at a s...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 6:26 am
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US television networks resumed coverage of President Donald Trump's White House events on Friday, providing the first live pool access for Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit, as a legal battle continues over restrictions on CNN, MS NOW and Politico. Trump last week banned the three outlets fro...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 5:15 am
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WASHINGTON: A jury in New Mexico on Friday found Facebook-owner Meta deceived users about privacy protections, in a case linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, US media reported. Cambridge Analytica was a political consulting firm that was found to have improperly harvested personal data from mi...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 3:17 am
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BAGHDAD: Iraq's Erbil and Sulaimaniya airports suspended Iranian flights starting on Friday, two sources said, after other Iraqi airports took the same step earlier in the week. The move means that according to sources and state media, flights to and from Iran are suspended from all four Iraqi air...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 3:12 am
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WASHINGTON: Amnesty International called for the abolition of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is tasked with leading Donald Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown in a report released on Thursday. The report, titled "We Had Whistles, They Had Guns," documents widespread...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 2:56 am
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• Security Council demands immediate end to escalation, warns of fresh exodus into Djibouti• Saudi grand mufti urges troops to defend 'every inch,' lay down their lives if needed; calls restoring Yemeni govt authority 'obligation' UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 2:49 am
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ALMATY: Kazakhstan on Friday said two more bodies had been found after an accident a day earlier during naval drills on the Caspian coast, bringing the final death toll to 14. The accident happened on Thursday in the western Mangystau region on the coast of the vast inland sea during a combat train...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 12:00 am
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NAIROBI: The UN has received just one-fifth of the $202 million requested to prepare for food crises caused by El Nino in 22 high-risk countries, a top official said on Friday. The natural El Nino warming phenomenon, due to peak between October and December, is on course to be the strongest on rec...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 11:59 pm
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Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan held military chiefs of staff talks on Friday with the objective to explore ways to assist Riyadh under the Makkah Defence Alliance. The Turkish defence ministry published photographs of the three military officials in uniform, stating that the meeting had taken pl...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 7:21 pm
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The United Nations on Friday released a fresh update of its database of companies with activities in Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories, listing 214 firms from 11 countries. Since last year's update, the UN rights office added an additional 61 companies to the database and removed five...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 3:46 pm
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Indian police used tear gas and water cannons on Friday to disperse opposition Congress party members during nationwide protests demanding the resignation of the head of the election commission, whom they accuse of manipulating voter rolls. The "cockroach" youth movement, which counts millions o...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 2:11 pm
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Pope Leo XIV on Friday warned against losing humanity in a "paradise of machines", after church bells rang and thousands gathered to welcome him to France amid worldwide concern over the dangers of artificial intelligence. "If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a paradise of machines inv...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 2:03 pm
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US President Donald Trump on Friday concluded his "productive" meeting with Chinese President XI Jinping, noting in a post on Truth Social that "tremendous things will be happening". "Like almost everyone else, he seemed to like calling the poorly and inaccurately named artificial intellig...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 12:57 pm
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NEW YORK: Dozens of delegates walked out of the UN General Assembly hall on Thursday as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the building while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Tel Aviv's actions amid growing international isolation, with elections looming that could threaten ...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 11:15 am
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said Pakistan's economy had stabilised and was moving towards growth, while inviting US-based Pakistani business leaders to explore investment opportunities in the country. Speaking at a meeting with delegations from the US-Pakistan Business Council and US B...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 10:08 am
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Ethiopian forces battled overnight to repel an assault by Tigray rebels in the Afar region, a humanitarian source said on Friday, with reports of an internet blackout in the north of the country. Rebels in the northern Tigray region seized local airports and launched attacks into the neighbouring st...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 9:44 am
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• Rebels target Yanbu, Taif, military sites in Jazan; push to seize key Taiz-Aden supply route• Riyadh lifts warnings issued for Makkah, Jeddah, Tabuk, other regions• UN rights chief 'appalled' as civilian toll climbs in Yemen RIYADH: Saudi Arabia intercepted six ballistic missiles fired b...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 5:28 am
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NEW YORK: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Thursday that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian had told him the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was "fully acceptable" to Tehran even today and that they were "ready to take it forward". The premier's statement came after he he...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 4:16 am
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ADDIS ABABA: Tigray rebels said on Thursday they were in a state of "full-blown war" with the Ethiopian government, with reports of hundreds killed and heavy artillery attacks in neighbouring states. Tensions have been rising for months between the federal government and the authorities in the n...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 3:20 am
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WASHINGTON: The White House said on Thursday it has reinstated journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico after a federal judge deemed US President Donald Trump's ban of the three news outlets likely unconstitutional and ordered their access immediately restored. The midday reinstatement came after...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 3:05 am
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Posted on 25 September 2026 | 2:27 am
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SYDNEY: Australia said on Thursday an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorised access to files, in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website. The breach is one of the highest-profile incidents of AI agents accessing...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 2:02 am
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SEOUL: President Volodymyr Zelensky broke a confidentiality agreement by disclosing that Ukraine had sent North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea, Seoul's president said on Thursday. The remarks by President Lee Jae Myung came after Zelensky told the United Nations that Ukraine had sent two ...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 2:02 am
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Chinese President Xi Jinping told his US counterpart, Donald Trump, on Thursday that Beijing and Washington must peacefully manage their superpower rivalry, as the US president gave his Chinese counterpart a lavish welcome to the White House. While Trump hailed their "truly great friendship" on ...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 7:28 pm
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CNN, MS NOW and Politico requested an urgent court hearing on Thursday after their reporters were barred from the White House despite a judge's order that their access be restored. "This morning journalists from each of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico attempted to enter the White House and were turned...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 3:22 pm
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The leaders of India's "cockroach" youth movement said on Thursday that they would launch nationwide protests if India's chief election officer does not resign within 48 hours, after a newspaper report said he had been questioned by his deputies over changes to voter lists. Opposition partie...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 1:02 pm
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Pakistan has stressed the need to prevent artificial intelligence (AI) from becoming "another facet of the ongoing arms race", as the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was briefed by leaders of major AI firms. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar delivered Pakistan's state...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 10:21 am