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Thailand and Cambodia exchanged heavy artillery for the second consecutive day, marking the worst escalation of tension between the neighbours in more than a decade.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday announced his nation will recognise a Palestinian state in September, an announcement that drew sharp criticism from the US and Israel.
Moscow/IBNS: A Russian passenger plane carrying 49 people crashed in the eastern part of the country on Thursday, media reports said.
Dhaka/IBNS: The Bangladesh Bank has withdrawn its dress code directive after it controversially asked women employees not to wear short dresses during office hours.
A China-born US researcher pleaded guilty today to stealing trade secret technologies developed for use by the U.S. government.
The Chinese authorities have razed down 300 Buddhist stupas and a revered Guru statue in the Drakgo (Ch: Luhuo) County, Karze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the traditional Tibet’s province of Kham last month, media reports said.
A terrorist attack at a police checkpoint in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district on Wednesday left at least six Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel injured, media reports said.
A group of ISKCON devotees were seen standing outside a KFC outlet and chanting 'Hare Krishna', just days after a YouTuber triggered a row by eating chicken inside a vegetarian restaurant run by the organisation in London.
Washington DC/IBNS: US President Donald Trump has once again claimed he stopped the military conflict between India and Pakistan despite India's repeated decline of the White House's 'ceasefire' claim.
The United States announced on Tuesday that it will leave the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which will take effect at the end of December 2026.
The United States on Tuesday announced it has decided to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the cultural arm of the United Nations.
The district administration of Dera Ghazi Khan in Pakistan has imposed new security measures under which all traffic will be prohibited from travelling to the Balochistan region at night.
Pakistani police have arrested 14 suspected people for allegedly killing a newlywed couple in broad daylight in the Balochistan area in the name of 'honour'.
The 20-year-old cousin of Prince William and Harry was found dead at her family's Norton, Wiltshire home with a firearm recovered near her, media reports said.
A Brazilian journalist was visibly left shaken after he stepped on the body of a missing schoolgirl while he was reporting on her disappearance recently.
Washington/IBNS: The White House has reiterated US President Donald Trump's claim that he ended the India-Pakistan military conflict, despite India's repeated rejections of such an assertion.
The death toll due to the Bangladesh Air Force training jet crash at a school in Dhaka's Uttara area has touched 27, media reports said on Tuesday.
Two young men were abducted in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, continuing the trend of enforced disappearance in the country.
At least 19 people, including students, died after a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into Milestone School and College in the country's capital, Dhaka, on Monday.
Dhaka/IBNS: One person was killed after an Air Force plane crashed into a school in Bangladesh's capital city, Dhaka, on Monday, media reports said.
US President Donald Trump targeted Barack Obama in his latest Truth Social post, where he shared an AI-generated video showing Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents arresting the former President.
A senior Pakistani security official was killed in a bomb attack in the Quetta area of Pakistan, media reports said on Sunday.
People jumped from the ferry that caught fire off the coast of North Sulawesi in Indonesia on Sunday to save their lives, forcing the rescue team to join the evacuation process.
At least seven police personnel were allegedly kidnapped from two police stations in separate incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s South Waziristan district in Pakistan on Sunday.
A new analysis by Bloomberg Economics has found that most of China's industries will not be able to survive US President Donald Trump’s tariffs at current levels.
Investigators did not find the allegedly haunted 'The Annabelle Doll' in the hotel room in the US, where paranormal investigator Dan Rivera was found dead recently.
Taiwan's Ministry of Defense has said it has detected 11 Chinese aircraft, 10 naval vessels, and one official ship between 6 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, media reports said.
Singapore has said it was facing a serious cyber attack on its critical infrastructures by an espionage group that experts believe is linked to China.
China has condemned the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22 and urged regional countries to enhance counterterrorism cooperation.
An Indian-origin doctor was charged with distributing opioids without a legitimate medical purpose to his patients in exchange for sexual favours, US officials said.
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