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India and Pakistan traded accusations of ceasefire violations, hours after US President, Donald Trump, announced that the nuclear-armed neighbours had stepped back from the brink of full-blown war. India’s foreign secretary said it retaliated after Pakistan’s “repeated violations” of the truce, while Pakistan said it “remains committed” to the ceasefire and that its forces were

Migrants who obtained temporary permission to live in the United States through the CBP One app under former president Joe Biden have received orders to self-deport “immediately,” US reported A US Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told AFP that “formal termination notices” had been issued to certain “illegal aliens,” but did not provide details on

Palestinian militant group Hamas said it launched rockets into southern Israel in response to what it called Israeli “massacres” of civilians in Gaza. Israel’s military said about 10 projectiles were fired but most were intercepted. One rocket reportedly struck the southern city of Ashkelon, according to Israel’s Channel 12. Emergency services in Israel said one

One of South Korea’s worst-ever wildfire outbreaks has killed at least 24 people, officials said today with multiple raging blazes causing “unprecedented damage” and threatening two UNESCO-listed sites.More than a dozen fires broke out over the weekend, scorching wide swathes of the southeast, forcing around 27,000 people to urgently evacuate, with the fire cutting off

Australia’s left-leaning government will cut income tax, slash student debt and hasten defence spending under an annual budget released today courting voters as it readies to fight a tight general election. The Labour government — due to announce the election date by the end of the week — booked a spending deficit of US$17 billion

South Korea’s Constitutional Court dismissed the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo today, reinstating him as acting president — a role he took after the president was suspended for declaring martial law. The court ruling is the latest development in South Korea’s complex and sprawling political crisis, which President Yoon Suk Yeol started with a

NASA astronauts, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were left stranded in space for months due to technical issues, have finally returned to earth. The duo landed safely today as SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom capsule splashed down off the coast of Florida, ending a mission that was supposed to last just eight days but stretched to

Thousands of people in central Ukraine were left without electricity today following a countrywide Russian attack involving more than 130 drones that damaged critical infrastructure. Kyiv and Moscow have recently escalated cross-border drone and missile attacks despite a US-led proposal for a 30-day ceasefire to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The governor of the Zaporizhzhia region,

President Donald Trump’s tariffs have spooked investors, with fears of an economic downturn driving a stock market sell-off that has wiped out $4 trillion from the S&P 500’s peak last month, when Wall Street was cheering much of Trump’s agenda.A barrage of new Trump policies has increased uncertainty for businesses, consumers and investors, notably back-and-forth

President Volodymyr Zelensky said he wanted to “make things right” with Donald Trump and to work under the US president’s “strong leadership” to secure a lasting peace in Ukraine. In his first public comments since Trump halted US military aid to Ukraine, Zelensky called for a “truce” in the sea and sky as a first