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Hindustan Aeronautics Limited logo. File | Photo Credit: X/@HALHQBLR India has refuted a New York Times article that alleged the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) may have “re-routed British sensitive equipment” to Russian Rosoboronexport, which is sanctioned by the United Kingdom and European Union. “The New York Times report is factually incorrect and misleading. It has tried to frame … Read more

French far-right Leader Marine Le Pen arrives at the courtroom for her embezzlement case on March 31, 2025 in Paris, France. | Photo Credit: Getty Images French far-right leader Marine Le Pen strode out of a French court as the chief judge on Monday (March 31, 2025) barred her from seeking public office after she … Read more

Members of firefighters, the National Forensic Service and the Korea Crime Scene Investigation investigate at the scene in Uiseong, South Korea, on March 31, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP South Korean police plan to question a 56-year-old man on suspicion of starting at least one of the wildfires that recently devastated the country’s southern regions, … Read more

Palestinians ride on a truck as they flee their homes, after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders for a number of neighbourhoods, following heavy Israeli strikes, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Israeli military on Monday (March 31, 2025) issued sweeping evacuation orders covering most … Read more

File photo of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Photo: West Asia News Agency/Handout via REUTERS Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday (March 31, 2025) the U.S. would receive a strong blow if it acts on President Donald Trump’s threat to bomb if Tehran does not reach a new nuclear deal with … Read more

Voices muted: People gather outside the City Hall to protest the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in Istanbul, Turkiye. | Photo Credit: AP With anti-government protests sweeping across Turkiye, the authorities have used all technological means to try to curb them, from restricting Internet access to using facial recognition to identify protesters, who have … Read more

Unfortunate fate: A Buddhist monk walks near a collapsed pagoda after an earthquake in Mandalay, central Myanmar. | Photo Credit: AP Covered in dust and resembling a Buddhist statue, the face of a dead monk emerges from the rubble of a religious examination hall in Mandalay flattened by Myanmar’s devastating earthquake. A rescue worker gently … Read more

A muslim boy stands on the rubble of a collapsed building in Mandalay on March 31, 2025, three days after the deadly Myanmar earthquake. Hopes were fading of finding more survivors in the rubble of Mandalay, where some residents spent a third night sleeping in the open after a massive earthquake killed at least 1,700 … Read more

A person runs out of an apartment block to avoid falling debris from a building hit during a Russian drone strike in a residential area, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine March 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Ukraine accused Russia of committing a “war crime” during its weekend attack on the city … Read more

The entrance of the Battle of Poltava Museum, in Poltava, Ukraine. | Photo Credit: AFP The quiet and echoing rooms of the museum in Poltava, dedicated to an 18th-century battle in central Ukraine, belie a struggle in the war-torn country on how far to go in recasting Russia’s role in history. The Russian invasion has … Read more