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At least 30 people were killed this week in floods triggered by torrential rains in Pakistan, officials said on Friday. Lahore, the second-largest city, was drenched by the heaviest rainfall in more than four decades. Floods and landslides hit South Asia last week as the monsoon arrived, with one disaster in neighbouring India killing at […]

Former US President Donald Trump’s stake in Truth Social platform has decreased by $900 million. Vice President Kamala Harris joins the presidential race On July 21, the same day that President Joe Biden withdrew and endorsed her. The decline is primarily due to the plunging value of the former president’s stake in Trump Media &

Republican former President Donald Trump’s campaign and its related allies announced Thursday that they had raised $138.7 million last month — less than the amount raised by his new opponent in the November election, Vice President Kamala Harris, in the opening weeks of her White House bid. Trump’s campaign says it has $327 million in

Turkey has blocked access to social media platform Instagram, the information technology regulator said on Friday, without giving a reason or duration for the ban, which also made the platform’s mobile app inaccessible. The move follows comments by Turkish communications official Fahrettin Altun on Wednesday in which he criticised the platform for its decision to

The United States on Thursday recognized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s rival and opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner of Venezuela’s disputed presidential election, rejecting Maduro’s claim of victory. “In the face of overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States, and most importantly to the people of Venezuela, that Edmundo González Urrutia won

Italian Prime Minister Giordano Meloni met boxer Angela Carini in Paris on Thursday and offered words of encouragement to Carini following her victory. Forfeited her Olympic bout against Algerian opponent Iman KhalifThe match sparked heated debate over gender eligibility rules in women’s sports. Meloni posted a photo of himself consoling Carini and wrote in Italian

Top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by an explosive device that was secretly brought to the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying, The New York Times (NYT) reported, citing officials. The bomb was hidden about two months before his stay. Haniyeh had visited the Iranian capital to attend the swearing-in ceremony of President Masoud

Wall Street Journal reporter Ivan Gershkovich stands in a glass defendant’s booth in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in Moscow on October 10, 2023. | Photo credit: AP The United States and Russia completed their largest prisoner exchange in post-Soviet history on August 1, with Moscow releasing more than 1,000 inmates. The Wall

Hezbollah’s leader warned on August 1 that the conflict with Israel had entered a “new phase”, as he addressed mourners at the funeral of one of the group’s commanders who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut this week. Meanwhile in Tehran, Iran’s supreme leader prayed for the body of a Hamas political leader

Iranians chase a truck carrying the coffins of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard, who were killed on Wednesday in a killing blamed on Israel. Photo: AP Iran held a funeral ceremony in Tehran on August 1 with calls for revenge for the killing of Hamas political chief. Ismail Haniyah Israel has been blamed