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US election: Trump leads Biden in 6 of 7 battleground states, says latest opinion poll
Trump leads between two and eight percentage points in six battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina.
US ‘strongly opposes’ latest Chinese bid to rename territories in Arunachal Pradesh
India had outright rejected the move as "senseless" and asserted that assigning "invented" names does not alter the reality that the state "is, has been, and will always be" an integral part of India.
UN rights council to consider call for Israel arms embargo
If the draft resolution is adopted, it would mark the first time that the United Nations' top rights body has taken a position on the war raging in Gaza.
Pakistan facing 30 percent water shortage for sowing season
Kharif crops, or monsoon crops, including rice, maize, sugarcane and cotton are sown in April and require a wet and warm climate with high levels of rainfall.
Why is Taiwan so exposed to earthquakes and so well prepared to withstand them?
Officials said the quake was the strongest to shake the island in decades, and warned of more tremors in the days ahead.
No ‘specific’ terror threat to Paris Olympics: minister
An attack on a Moscow concert hall last month which left 140 people dead has revived fears for the Paris Games which begin on July 26.
Vehicle carrying suspected migrants crashes into a river in Albania, killing 8 people
Albania is not a primary route for migrants but small groups from Arab countries or Asia use it to reach Italy by sea or other neighboring countries by land.
Reforms on the horizon as Senegal’s youngest president Faye takes office
Faye was one of a group of political opponents freed from prison 10 days before the March 24 presidential ballot under an amnesty announced by Sall who had tried to delay the vote.
Sri Lanka says India never raised Katchatheevu issue after BJP rakes up dispute ahead of LS polls
“The Cabinet did not discuss it as it was never raised," Bandula Gunawardena, the Cabinet spokesman and minister of information, told reporters here today.
Sugar shortage darkens Tunisian Eid festivities
"We rely on sugar in everything we do," said Chokri Bouajila, a bakery worker in Tunis. "If we have sugar, we can work, otherwise we can't do anything."
India will get permanent UNSC seat, but it will have to work harder this time: EAM Jaishankar
The Union minister said India, Japan, Germany and Egypt have put forward a proposal together before the UN and he believes this will take the matter a bit forward.
Biden says aid staff ‘must be protected’ after deadly Israel strike: White House
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier that his country's military had "unintentionally" killed the aid workers, who included Australian, British, Palestinian, Polish and US-Canadian nationals.
Experts think the opposition’s local election triumph proves voters disapprove of Erdogan
The surprise results came just 10 months after the opposition was left divided and demoralized following a defeat in last year’s presidential and parliamentary elections.
Russia claims arresting four more Moscow attack plotters
More than 140 people were killed when gunmen stormed the Crocus City Hall venue on March 22 before setting the building on fire in the most fatal attack in Russia for two decades.
Syria says Israeli airstrike destroyed Iran’s consular building in Damascus, several dead
Iranian Ambassador Hossein Akbari condemned Israel and said as many as seven people were killed, but first responders were still searching for any other bodies under the rubble.
Health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says war death toll at 32,845
Monday's toll update was released hours after the Israeli military withdrew from Gaza's biggest hospital, Al-Shifa, after a two-week operation that saw heavy fighting.
Kansas lawmakers race to solve big fiscal issues before their spring break
Lawmakers are supposed to finish a proposed $25 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
In Taiwan, a group is battling fake news one conversation at a time, with a focus on seniors
Taiwan is already home to several established fact-checking organisations. But such organisations presume that you're at least somewhat tech-savvy—that you can find a fact-check organisation's website or add a fact-checking bot.
Investigators identify remains of toddler who disappeared in French Alps in 2023
The discovery is the first major breakthrough in the case of two-and-a-half-year-old Emile, who vanished on July 8 last year while staying with his grandparents.
South Korea’s Yoon vows not to back down in the face of doctors’ strike over medical…
About 12,000 medical interns and residents in South Korea have been on strike for six weeks, causing hundreds of cancelled surgeries and other treatments at university hospitals.