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US President Donald Trump gave a warm greeting to incoming New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani at the White House on Friday, praising Mamdani’s electoral victory in the…
Residents stand in an alley after vacating their house next to a fallen scaffolding following an earthquake in Dhaka, Bangladesh, yesterday A powerful earthquake struck Bangladesh…
Indian counter-terrorism units raided the office of The Kashmir Times over its alleged role in a “criminal conspiracy”, police said, with the news website calling the…
Japanese local authorities yesterday approved the restart of the world’s biggest nuclear plant for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Hideyo Hanazumi, governor of…
A day after Myanmar’s junta leader visited the southeastern city of Hpa-An last week, two sources said army officers met members of a powerful local militia…
Firefighters work at the site of a crash involving an Indian-made HAL Tejas fighter jet at the Dubai Air Show, UAE, yesterday. An Indian Tejas fighter…
Hong Kong Air India is lobbying the Indian government to convince China to let it use a sensitive military airspace zone in Xinjiang to shorten routes…
A US official said that President Donald Trump has approved a peace plan between Russia and Ukraine that has been developed over the past few weeks.NBC…
A man looks at a pyroclastic flow during the eruption of Mount Semeru in Lumajang, East Java, on November 19, 2025. (AFP) A volcano on Indonesia’s main island of Java erupted Wednesday, throwing ash and gas kilometres into the sky and forcing officials to raise the alert status to its highest level. Mount Semeru in eastern Java, about 310kms west of the tourist hotspot of Bali, erupted at 2.13pm local time (0713 GMT), spewing what are known as pyroclastic flows, Indonesian geological agency head Muhammad Wafid said.”The public is advised not to engage in activities within an 8km radius of the crater or peak of Mount Semeru due to the risk of being struck by ejected rocks,” he said in a statement. The national disaster agency said the plume of ash had risen as far as 13kms into the air. Related Story Source…
Britain’s King Charles with Dame Martina Milburn and Dame Louise Casey on the second anniversary of the Coronation Food Project, in London, Britain, Wednesday. Britain’s King Charles met charity leaders and supermarket bosses Wednesday to celebrate a project to cut food waste and feed those in need which has distributed the equivalent of 11mn meals over the last two years.Charles set up his Coronation Food Project in 2023, the year he was crowned king, with the aim of bringing together food producers and retailers with local community groups who provide meals for those who are hungry.At the event in central London, Charles was shown meals made from surplus food, and met chefs from The Felix Project, a charity which takes fruit and vegetables which can no longer be sold and delivers them to food banks, schools and childcare groups. Related…