Tuesday | 2 December 2025 Bangkok — For nearly a week, Wassana Suthi watched helplessly as floodwaters swallowed the streets around her small nursing home in Hat Yai, transforming what was once a bustling southern Thai city into an island of isolation and fear. Rising water cut off all road access, leaving Suthi, her husband, […]
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Monday | 10th November 2025 A second powerful typhoon in just one week has battered the Philippines, killing at least two people and forcing nearly a million residents to flee from their homes amid fears of catastrophic winds and storm surges. Typhoon Fung-wong, known locally as Uwan, made landfall on Sunday night over the coastal
Friday | 7th November 2025 Typhoon Kalmaegi carved a path of destruction across Southeast Asia this week, leaving hundreds dead and entire communities in ruins from the Philippines to Vietnam. The monster storm — one of the strongest ever recorded to hit Vietnam — battered the region with torrential rain, hurricane-force winds, and catastrophic flooding
Thursday | 23rd October 2025 Moscow, Russia — Russia’s strategic nuclear forces conducted a sweeping readiness test on Wednesday under the direct supervision of President Vladimir Putin, in what the Kremlin described as a “planned exercise” aimed at verifying the country’s command-and-control systems and operational preparedness across its entire nuclear triad. “Today, we are conducting
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Monday | October 6, 2025 US President Donald Trump has called on all parties involved in efforts to end the Gaza war to “move fast,” as mediators prepare to meet in Egypt on Monday for indirect peace talks between Hamas and Israel. The Cairo meeting follows Hamas’ partial acceptance of a 20-point US peace proposal,
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Tuesday | 9th September 2025 Paris — French lawmakers voted on Monday to oust Prime Minister François Bayrou, plunging the nation into yet another political crisis and leaving France without a government at a time of mounting economic strain and heightened geopolitical tensions. The no-confidence motion against Bayrou passed decisively, with 364 members of parliament
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Tuesday | 26th August 2025 Hong Kong — Chinese refineries have begun placing significant new orders for Russian crude oil, diverting supplies that would typically flow to India, as demand from the South Asian giant slips in the wake of fresh U.S. trade penalties. Analysts say at least 15 cargoes of Russian oil have already
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Friday | August 8, 2025 Brisbane, Australia — Five Australian women have won a significant legal battle, securing the right to sue Qatar Airways over what they describe as a traumatic and deeply invasive ordeal at Doha’s Hamad International Airport in 2020. The decision came after Australia’s Federal Court upheld their appeal, overturning an earlier
Tuesday | 29th July 2025 At Least 30 Dead as Torrential Rains Lash Northern China, Triggering Floods and Landslides Days of relentless rainfall have claimed the lives of at least 30 people in the mountainous northern outskirts of Beijing, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday, as a wave of extreme weather continues to batter northern
Monday | July 14, 2025 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa placed Police Minister Senzo Mchunu on immediate leave of absence on Sunday, following explosive accusations by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi that Mchunu had colluded with criminal networks and interfered in sensitive, high-profile investigations. The decision marks a significant moment for Ramaphosa, who came to
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