Three killed after Moscow targets Kyiv with a mass drone attack ahead of ceasefire talks

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out the fire following a Russian attack in near Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP At least three people were killed, including a five-year-old child, after Russia launched a barrage of drones targeting Kyiv overnight on Sunday (March 23, 2025), … Read more

Pakistan confirms second case of mpox in 2025

Paramedical staff prepare an isolation ward set up as a preventative measure following Pakistan’s Health Ministry confirmation of a case of mpox. File | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan confirmed the second case of mpox this year when a 29-year-old man tested positive for the contagious viral infection in Karachi, according to a media report. The … Read more

Prosecutors request formal arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, top challenger to Turkiye’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Ekrem Imamoglu. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Prosecutors early on Sunday (March 23, 2025) requested that detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the top challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, be formally arrested over allegations of corruption and terror links. A court is now set to decide whether the popular Opposition figure will be charged and … Read more

U.S. lifts bounties on senior Taliban officials, including Sirajuddin Haqqani, says Kabul

Sirajuddin Haqqani. File. | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the Interior Minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government, officials in Kabul said on Sunday (March 23, 2025). Sirajuddin Haqqani, who acknowledged planning a January 2008 attack on … Read more

Activists demand press freedom protection in Indonesia after magazine receives pig’s head and decapitated rats

Activists have called for press freedom to be protected in Indonesia and demanded an investigation after a Weekly magazine Tempo, critical of the government was sent a pig’s head and decapitated rats. | Photo Credit: X/@tempodotco Activists have called for press freedom to be protected in Indonesia and demanded an investigation after a magazine critical … Read more

Ukraine drone attacks kill one in Rostov: Russian authorities

A view of the damaged flat of an apartment building after a Ukrainian drone’s attack in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on March 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP “Russian air defence units destroyed 59 Ukrainian drones that targeted Russia’s southwestern regions and killed one person in Rostov,” Russian authorities said on Sunday (March 23, 2025.) A U-turn … Read more

Indian-origin man, his daughter killed in U.S. store shooting

Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Reuters A 56-year-old Indian-origin man and his 24-year-old daughter were shot dead at a convenience store in the US state of Virginia and police have arrested one person in connection with the shooting, according to media reports. Pradipkumar Patel and his daughter were working at the store on Lankford … Read more

Bangladesh request for Muhammad Yunus-PM Modi meeting under consideration, Parliamentary panel told

Muhammad Yunus. File | Photo Credit: Reuters “Bangladesh’s request for a meeting between its interim government’s Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the upcoming BIMSTEC Summit is under consideration,” External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is learnt to have told a Parliamentary panel meeting in New Delhi. “At this year’s first meeting … Read more

Israeli airstrike kills Hamas political leader in southern Gaza, Hamas media reports

Smoke rises from a building after it was targeted by an Israeli army strike, following evacuation orders for residents, in Gaza City Saturday, March 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP An Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis killed Hamas political leader Salah al-Bardaweel, Hamas and Palestinian media reported in the early hours of Sunday … Read more