Kash Patel gestures as he testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2025. — Reuters WASHINGTON: The Republican-controlled US Senate on Thursday confirmed Kash Patel, a staunch loyalist who has threatened to go after President Donald Trump’s political enemies, as director of the FBI, the country’s top law enforcement agency. Patel, …
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A Sri Lankan passenger train derailed on Thursday after smashing into a family of elephants, with no passengers injured but six animals killed in the island’s worst such wildlife accident, police said. The express train was travelling near a wildlife reserve at Habarana, some 180 kilometres east of the capital Colombo, when it hit the herd crossing the line before …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi applauds as India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s Rekha Gupta greets the audience before taking her oath as the new Chief Minister of Delhi at the Ramlila grounds in New Delhi, India, February 20, 2025. — Reuters BJP has not controlled local legislature in New Delhi since 1998. Elections oust AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, prominent critic of …
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Elephants stroll across the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Pinnawala on February 16, 2025. — AFP A Sri Lankan passenger train derailed Thursday after smashing into a family of elephants, with no passengers injured but six animals killed in the island’s worst such wildlife accident, police said. The express train was travelling near a wildlife reserve at Habarana, some 180 kilometres …
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US President Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office of the White House, as he signs executive orders, in Washington, US, January 23, 2025. — Reuters US President Donald Trump’s approval rating has ticked slightly lower in recent days as more Americans worried about the direction of the US economy as the new leader threatens a host of countries with …
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 19, 2025, amid the Russian attack on Ukraine. — Reuters US President Donald Trump on Wednesday denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as “a dictator without elections” and said he had better move fast to secure peace or he would have no country left, Reuters reported. Trump spoke …
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Zelensky previously criticised the US-Russia talks for excluding Kyiv, saying efforts to end the war must be “fair” and involve European countries. The Ukrainian leader’s comments appeared to incense Trump, who launched a series of verbal attacks on Zelensky. “I’m very disappointed, I hear that they’re upset about not having a seat,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in …
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China will always be Latin America’s “trustworthy” friend and partner, its foreign minister told his Bolivian counterpart, as Beijing looks to improve its foothold in a region historically under the US sphere of influence. “Latin America is the home of the Latin American people, and is not any country’s ‘backyard’,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a meeting at …
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US President Donald Trump (right) and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meet at Trump Tower in New York City, US. — Reuters/File Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday said that Donald Trump was living in a Russian “disinformation” bubble, responding to scathing comments by the US president about Zelensky´s popularity rating. The Ukrainian leader also accused Washington of helping end Russian …
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A representational image shows Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel standing on a street in Srinagar, October 12, 2021. — Reuters SRINAGAR: India’s police in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) have raided dozens of bookshops and seized hundreds of copies of books by an Islamic scholar, sparking angry reactions by Muslim leaders. Police said searches were based …
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