2025 • Dec 07
Macron denies warning Ukraine about potential US betrayal – as it happened
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2025 • Dec 03
British women stranded by landslides in Sri Lankan mountains running out of food and water, daughter says
Friends Melanie Watters and Janine Reid have been trapped in Pussellawa since ThursdayTwo British women stranded by landslides in Sri Lanka’s tea mountains are running out of food and water,...
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2025 • Dec 03
Global heating and other human activity are making Asia’s floods more lethal
Much improved response systems are struggling to cope with ever more powerful and destructive storms
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2025 • Dec 01
Sri Lanka and Indonesia deploy militaries as Asia flood toll nears 1,000
Separate weather systems brought torrential rainfall to Sri Lanka and large parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia
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2025 • Dec 01
Death toll passes 1,000 in devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand – latest updates
Hundreds remain missing in Indonesia and Sri Lanka as rescue efforts continue after Cyclone Ditwah
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2025 • Nov 30
Death toll passes 900 in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka floods
Officials in Indonesia say more than 442 people have died, while Sri Lanka suffers worst natural disaster since 2004 tsunami Authorities in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand are racing to cl...
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2025 • Nov 17
Pakistani parliament votes to give army chief new powers and legal immunity
Critics say constitutional amendment, which will also limit supreme court’s independence, is ‘funeral for democracy’Pakistan’s parliament has passed a controversial amendment to its constitu...
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2025 • Nov 17
India confirms deadly Delhi car blast being treated as terror incident
Cabinet says explosion near Red Fort that killed 12 is suspected to have been perpetrated by ‘anti-national forces’India has confirmed it is treating the explosion that killed 12 people outs...
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2025 • Nov 17
Blast from confiscated explosives at police station in Indian-controlled Kashmir kills nine
The accidental explosion comes days after a deadly car blast in New Delhi which killed at least eight people near the city’s historic Red FortAt least nine people were killed and 32 injured ...
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2025 • Nov 05
Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
Cheney, who served under presidents from Nixon to George W Bush, will be remembered for controversial role after 9/11
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2025 • Nov 02
Thousands detained as Myanmar military raids notorious KK park scam compound
Myanmar's military moved in to tackle a major online scam operation near the Thailand border, state media reportedMyanmar’s military has raided a major online scam operation near the border ...
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2025 • Oct 20
Weather tracker: Eight dead as Tropical Storm Fengshen hits Philippines
Tens of thousands evacuated amid significant damage from intense rainfall and storm surgeEight people have died and 27,000 have been evacuated after Tropical Storm Fengshen hit the Philippin...
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