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Yael Alexander, centre right in the grey scarf, holds a poster of her son, Edan, who was taken hostage by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023, on stage with family, during a weekly rally for families of hostages held in the Gaza Strip and their supporters, in Tel Aviv, Israel on Saturday, February 22, 2025. … Read more

Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: AP “China’s military has set up a drill zone for “shooting training” about 40 nautical miles (74 km) off Taiwan’s southwest coast without prior notification,” the island’s Defence Ministry said on Wednesday (February 26, 2025), condemning the move as provocative and dangerous. Democratically governed Taiwan, which China views … Read more

Migrants cross a river during their journey through the Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama. File | Photo Credit: AP Panama said on Tuesday (February 25, 2025) that it’s working to formalise a route long used to smuggle migrants on the way to the U.S., which is now being increasingly used to return migrants to … Read more

File picture of Singapore’s Law Minister K. Shanmugam | Photo Credit: Reuters Two Singapore Ministers have filed defamation suits against media company Bloomberg and one of its journalists over a story related to rental of a state-owned bungalow, a media report said on Wednesday (February 26, 2025). The case filed by Law and Home Affairs … Read more

In Bangladesh and Pakistan’s first government-to-government deal, “we are importing 50,000 tons of rice from Pakistan,” said a senior official at Dhaka’s food ministry. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu “Bangladesh and Pakistan have started direct government-to-government trade after decades of troubled relations with imports of 50,000 tonnes of rice,” Dhaka said Tuesday, February 25, … Read more

South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol. File | Photo Credit: Reuters In a final statement at his impeachment trial, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol defended his martial law decree that plunged the country into chaos as a bid to inform the public of the danger of the Opposition-controlled parliament as he vowed Tuesday … Read more

Latvia Foreign Minister Baiba Braze addresses the UN Security Council, at United Nations headquarters, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Latvia’s Foreign Minister warns that Russian President Vladimir Putin will try to achieve in peace talks what he hasn’t been able to accomplish in his war against Ukraine — weaken the United States … Read more

Life in rubble: Palestinian children hang laundry on the ruins of their house in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip. | Photo Credit: AP When night falls over northern Gaza, much of the cityscape of collapsed buildings and piled wreckage turns pitch black. Living inside the ruins of their home, Rawia Tambora’s young sons get afraid of the … Read more

Image used for representation | Photo Credit: The Hindu Five Indian-origin men were sentenced to jail terms between two and three years and caning for being part of a riot that led to the death of a former bouncer at a Singapore hotel. Sridharan Elangovan was given 36 months in jail and six strokes of … Read more