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'Raped me four times': Maharashtra doctor's chilling suicide note targets a cop who is at large; second accused arrested | 'NDA under Nitish Kumar's leadership will get biggest ever mandate in Bihar': Modi after MGB doubts JD(U) leader's future as CM | Setback for Suvendu Adhikari as Calcutta HC revokes immunity to Bengal LoP from FIRs, TMC lauds court order | Celebrated for Fevicol, Cadbury ads, India's advertising revolutionary Piyush Pandey dies at 70 | RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav named as Mahagathbandhan's CM face in Bihar polls | 'Face us if you are a man, fight us if you have had mother's milk': Pakistani Taliban dares Asim Munir | Pakistan is the worst violator of human rights: India at UN | US-bound Air India flight returns to Mumbai over suspected tech issue: Report | Bihar polls: Tejashwi Yadav promises women under 'Jeevika Didi' scheme permanent job with add-on benefits | Trump lights diyas as he participates in Diwali celebrations at White House, calls Modi 'great friend' amid tariff war; Indian PM responds

Ukraine: Russia launches drone attack on Kharkiv, three die

Jun 11, 2025, at 04:42 pm

At least three people died and 64 others were injured after Russia targeted apartment buildings in Kharkiv region on Wednesday.

Iran: Nine convicted ISIS members executed

Jun 11, 2025, at 10:04 am

Iran has executed nine members of the terror group Islamic State on Tuesday, media reports said.

Austria: Shooting in school leaves nine dead

Jun 10, 2025, at 04:29 pm

At least nine people died in a shooting incident at a school in Austria's Graz city on Tuesday, media reports said.

UN report shows social, economic barriers are factors leading to global fertility crisis

Jun 10, 2025, at 03:03 pm

The global fertility slump isn’t down to young people turning their backs on parenthood – it’s due to social and economic pressures stopping them from having the children they want, says a new UN report.

Israel deports activist Greta Thunberg a day after Gaza-bound ship seized

Jun 10, 2025, at 02:43 pm

Climate activist Greta Thunberg, who was travelling in the Gaza-bound ship that was seized by Israeli authorities, was deported on Wednesday, officials said.

Australian PM Albanese raises issue of reporter shooting during LA protest with US authorities

Jun 10, 2025, at 01:51 pm

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government has spoken with the U.S. administration over the shooting of an Australian journalist with a rubber bullet while she was covering the ongoing protests in Los Angeles.

Ukraine: Russian drones strike maternity ward in Odesa

Jun 10, 2025, at 10:15 am

Russia has launched missiles and drones on Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Odesa, leaving at least one person dead on Tuesday, media reports said.

UN nuclear watchdog warns lack of cooperation from Iran hampers nuclear checks

Jun 10, 2025, at 09:02 am

The head of the UN-backed nuclear watchdog has raised fresh concerns over Iran’s failure to fully cooperate with inspections, warning that this is preventing independent verification of its nuclear activities.

Malaysia: 15 students die in bus mishap

Jun 09, 2025, at 04:38 pm

At least 15 people, mostly students, died after the bus in which they were travelling smashed into a minivan in northern Malaysia on Monday, media reports said.

Israel intercepts Gaza-bound aid ship, activist Greta Thunberg detained

Jun 09, 2025, at 10:34 am

Israel has intercepted an aid ship that was heading towards Gaza and carried prominent activists like Greta Thunberg.

Two senior Palestinian Mujahideen Movement members eliminated, says IDF

Jun 08, 2025, at 03:03 pm

The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday announced that two senior members of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement have been eliminated.

Colombia: Presidential candidate Miguel Uribe shot during rally

Jun 08, 2025, at 02:13 pm

Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe, a potential presidential contender, is currently struggling for his life at a hospital after he was shot three times in Bogota on Saturday.

Indian-origin engineer dies during scuba diving session in UAE

Jun 08, 2025, at 01:10 pm

An Indian-origin engineer died while scuba diving at Jumeirah Beach in the UAE's Dubai region on Friday.

British art expert sentenced to prison for selling works to suspected Hezbollah financier

Jun 07, 2025, at 04:33 pm

An art expert has been jailed in the UK for two years and six months after he failed to report a series of high-value sales to a man suspected of financing the proscribed group Hezbollah.

Gaza: Four Israeli soldiers die in explosion

Jun 07, 2025, at 10:46 am

At least four Israeli soldiers died and five others were wounded after an explosion rocked a building in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis on Friday.

World leaders should keep two-state solution ‘alive’, urges Antonio Guterres

Jun 06, 2025, at 05:19 pm

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday urged world leaders to revive efforts toward a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning that there is no alternative.

Australia: 21-year-old injured in targeted shooting in Queensland

Jun 06, 2025, at 03:06 pm

A 21-year-old man was injured in a targeted shooting incident in Australia's Queensland state, police said on Friday.

Russia hits Kyiv with drones, missiles; four dead

Jun 06, 2025, at 10:36 am

At least four people died and 20 others were injured in Kyiv after Russia launched drones and ballistic missiles at multiple targets across the Ukrainian capital, media reports said on Friday.

Study reveals one in three Australian men committed intimate partner violence

Jun 06, 2025, at 10:06 am

A new study showed more than 1 in 3 Australian men (35%) aged 18-65 years have used intimate partner violence in their lifetime.

Ukraine claims to have hit bridge linking Russia to Crimea with underwater explosives, shares footage

Jun 03, 2025, at 10:21 pm

Ukraine's SBU security service on Tuesday claimed that it had hit the road and rail bridge linking Russia and the Crimean peninsula below the water level with explosives, damaging the pillars underneath.

Gaza roadside bomb blast leaves three IDF soldiers dead

Jun 03, 2025, at 03:54 pm

Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers died, and two were wounded, after a roadside bomb exploded in the Jabalia area in the northern Gaza Strip during an operation on Monday, media reports said on Tuesday.

UN General Assembly’s 80th Session: Germany's Annalena Baerbock elected new president

Jun 03, 2025, at 03:07 pm

Former German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock was elected President of the General Assembly’s 80th session on Monday.

Terrorism against Jews does not stop at the Gaza border, says Israeli envoy to UN on Boulder attack

Jun 02, 2025, at 05:38 pm

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, has condemned the terror attack on participants of a pro-Palestinian rally in the US city of Boulder, which left eight people injured.

IDF shares video, alleges Hamas of firing at aid centre in Gaza

Jun 02, 2025, at 02:19 pm

The Israeli Defence Forces on Monday denied all involvement in the attack close to the aid delivery centre in Southern Gaza's Rafah, which left 31 people dead.

Lifting of Israeli blockade ‘the only way to avert mass starvation’ in Gaza, says UNRWA chief

Jun 02, 2025, at 10:35 am

Amid disputed reports of Israeli forces firing on civilians near a new privatised aid distribution point in southern Gaza, the head of the Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, said on Sunday that lifting the months-long aid blockade of the enclave is the only way to avoid “mass starvation”.

Hamas commander Khalil Abd al-Nasser Muhammad Khatib eliminated: IDF

Jun 01, 2025, at 05:37 pm

The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday announced that Hamas commander Khalil Abd al-Nasser Muhammad Khatib has been eliminated.

Gaza: Israeli tank shelling close to aid centre leaves 26 dead

Jun 01, 2025, at 05:01 pm

At least 26 people died and 150 others were injured after an Israeli tank shelling and gunfire in close to an aid distribution unit in Rafah city in Gaza on Sunday, media reports said.

Two Russian bridges collapse, seven die

Jun 01, 2025, at 01:58 pm

At least seven people died and multiple others were injured after two bridges collapsed in separate incidents in Russia's western region, bordering Ukraine.

UN calls Gaza as the ‘hungriest place on earth'

May 31, 2025, at 01:08 pm

Starving Gazans continue to be deprived of aid as international relief efforts are being severely constrained by the Israeli authorities, the UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA said on Friday.

'We stopped potential India-Pakistan nuclear war with trade': Donald Trump reiterates 'ceasefire' claim

May 31, 2025, at 11:14 am

Washington DC/IBNS: US President Donald Trump has once again said he stopped a potential nuclear war between hostile Asian neighbours India and Pakistan with trade despite New Delhi's repeated rejections of such claims made by Washington in the past.