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July 18, 2025 8:43 AM
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Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian base jumper and skydiver best known for his record-breaking jump from the stratosphere, died in a paragliding accident in Italy yesterday. He was 56. Baumgartner reportedly lost control of his paraglider and crashed into a hotel swimming pool in the coastal town of Po...
July 18, 2025 8:14 AM
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US President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a common vascular condition, especially in individuals over the age of 70. White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt confirmed the diagnosis following a comprehensive medical examination, which included diagnostic vascul...
July 18, 2025 8:00 AM
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In Pakistan, at least 63 people have been killed and 290 injured in rain-related incidents in Punjab province during the past 48 hours. According to the National Disaster Management Authority, most of the victims were crushed by collapsing buildings, while the rest either drowned or were electrocute...
July 18, 2025 7:57 AM
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The US State Department has designated The Resistance Front (TRF), the group behind the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, as a terrorist organisation. In a statement, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, the Trump Administration has declared the TRF as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and Sp...
July 17, 2025 8:10 PM
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In Iraq, at least 60 people were killed and several others injured in a massive fire at a hypermarket in the Al-Kut city today. The province governor confirmed that the fire broke out in a hyper market and a restaurant and that firefighters rescued several people. He added, lawsuits have been file...
July 17, 2025 7:55 PM
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The Nepal government has suspended Sharad Ojha, Chairperson of the Nepal Insurance Authority (NIA), following the formation of a probe committee to investigate his performance and conduct in office. A three-member committee led by former Justice Krishna Giri, with members Kapil Dev Oli and Jiwan P...
July 17, 2025 7:46 PM
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Nepal has received a foreign aid commitment of Rs. 273.04 billion for the Fiscal Year 2024/25, which is above the annual estimates announced in the budget of the same year. Statistics from the Ministry of Finance (MoF) showed that the country received the commitments of Rs. 215.54 billion for loan...
July 17, 2025 6:51 PM
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The U.S. Senate has approved President Donald Trump’s plan for billions of dollars in cuts to funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting. The Senate voted 51 to 48 in favor of Mr. Trump’s request to cut 9 billion dollars in spending already approved by Congress. Most of the cuts are to progr...
July 17, 2025 6:42 PM
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In a remarkable breakthrough, scientists in the UK used a three-person in vitro fertilization (IVF) technique to bring to life eight children and spared them from genetic mitochondrial disease. The infants-four girls and four boys, including one set of identical twins-were born using DNA from thre...
July 17, 2025 5:37 PM
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The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has accused the interim government of failing to control escalating lawlessness, alleging a deliberate attempt to destabilise the country ahead of February’s parliamentary election. In a statement issued after a standing committee meeting, the BNP cited risin...
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