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India voter-roll row escalates as Delhi blocks fresh protest against election chief
NEW DELHI, Oct 16 — Authorities closed a central New Delhi park today before a fresh protest seeking the removal of India’s election chief over a voter-roll revision that […]
Four killed in Indonesia battling fires causing toxic haze
JAKARTA, Oct 16 — Four people died on Indonesia’s Java island fighting the blazes that have been sending toxic smoke across southeast Asia, closing schools and fuelling a surge of […]
Tear gas and water cannons fired as Argentina university funding protest turns violent
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 16 — Argentine demonstrators clashed with police yesterday at a major protest in Buenos Aires over budget-slashing President Javier Milei’s higher education spending. The main demonstration outside parliament […]
Death toll rises to 33 after Pakistan school roof collapse as owner is detained over suspected weak infrastructure
PESHAWAR, Oct 16 — The roof of a school collapsed in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar yesterday killing 32 students mostly younger than 14, and a teacher, officials said, blaming […]
Trump’s new press secretary appears to acknowledge failing Bar exam amid scrutiny over lawyer claims
WASHINGTON, Oct 16 — New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, under scrutiny over her legal credentials, seemed to acknowledge yesterday that she had failed the Bar exam, but argued she […]
‘Ballots and bullets’: Political killings surge ahead of South Africa’s local elections
DURBAN, Oct 16 — Gunmen opened fire on local government candidate Khethelo Mdluli outside his rural home as he was with his young children, one of a surge of suspected […]
Mobile clinics battle Mongolia’s childhood dental ‘disaster’
ULAANBAATAR, Oct 16 — Inside a traditional Mongolian ger in the sprawling suburbs of Ulaanbaatar, children queue to have their teeth checked at a mobile dental practice that roams the […]
Internet ‘detectives’ hunt Cornell rape suspects — and target the wrong people
WASHINGTON, Oct 15 — One message told him to “go to hell.” Others said he deserved to be imprisoned. Death threats poured in. Asians who share a name with one […]
‘We are done’: Zelensky defies Trump, says Ukraine will resume attacks on Russian oil refineries
KYIV, Oct 15 — Ukraine will no longer abide by US President Donald Trump’s demands not to strike Russian oil refineries, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in remarks published today, amid […]
Istanbul reels from heaviest rainfall in over 80 years as floods kill two
ISTANBUL, Oct 15 — Istanbul was today battling to recover from flooding caused by what officials said was the heaviest rainfall in the city since records began more than 80 […]