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Fatal shooting in New Mexico park casts pall over Legislature and its ability to contain crime

March 23, 2025 08:35 IST

Republicans legislators in the legislative minority said the state is in crisis and urged Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to exercise her authority to bring the legislators back to the Capitol to seek solutions to violent crime.

Turkish prosecutors demand Istanbul mayor Imamoglu to be jailed pending trial

March 23, 2025 08:05 IST

Protesters also clashed with police in the western coastal province of Izmir and the capital Ankara for a third night in a row, with police firing water cannon at the crowds.

UK government orders probe into Heathrow shutdown that sparked concern over energy resilience

March 23, 2025 05:03 IST

Passengers on about 120 flights were in the air when Friday's closure was announced and found themselves landing in different cities, and even different countries.

IndiGo starts Mumbai to Seychelles direct flights from today

March 22, 2025 17:33 IST

IndiGo adds Seychelles as its 39th international destination, offering 4 weekly direct flights from Mumbai starting March 22, 2025.

South Korea hit with multiple forest fires, two firefighters dead, over 200 evacuated

March 22, 2025 16:29 IST

Acting President Choi Sang-mok urged all-out efforts to extinguish the fire before sunset as wildfires were spreading rapidly due to strong winds.

Turkey detains 343 people over protests against Istanbul mayor’s detention

March 22, 2025 16:15 IST

Demonstrations took place in more than a dozen cities including Turkey's biggest city Istanbul and the capital Ankara, the ministry said in a statement.

Ethiopia’s army says it killed more than 300 Fano militiamen in two days of fighting

March 22, 2025 16:02 IST

Fighting between Ethiopia's army and Fano - a loose collection of militias with no centralised leadership - broke out in July 2023, fuelled in part by a sense of betrayal among many Amharas about the terms of the 2022 peace deal.

At least 44 killed in Niger jihadist attack, authorities say

March 22, 2025 15:49 IST

Heavily armed jihadists encircled a mosque, where people had gathered for prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and carried out a "massacre of rare cruelty", it said.

Italy’s deal with Starlink has stalled, defence minister says

March 22, 2025 14:51 IST

'It seems to me that everything has come to a standstill,' the defense minister said.

Japan, China, South Korea discuss trilateral cooperation

March 22, 2025 11:04 IST

The three-way meetings are an accomplishment for Japan, which has historical and territorial disputes with both China and South Korea.

Tencent launches T1 reasoning model amid growing AI competition in China

March 22, 2025 08:55 IST

The launch comes amid heightened rivalry in China's AI landscape following DeepSeek's introduction of models that offer comparable or superior performance to Western systems at substantially lower costs.

Trump administration cuts legal help for migrant children travelling alone

March 22, 2025 07:49 IST

'It's extremely concerning because it's leaving these kids without really important support,' said Ailin Buigues, who heads Acacia's unaccompanied children programme.

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US imposes travel ban on former Argentine president over corruption charges

March 22, 2025 06:32 IST

Fernández has been a dominant political leader in recent years in the South American country.

Israeli forces push deeper into Gaza, destroy its only cancer hospital

March 22, 2025 05:14 IST

Israel had already cut off the supply of food, fuel and humanitarian aid to Gaza's roughly 2 million Palestinians, aiming to pressure Hamas over the ceasefire negotiations.

Thousands rally in Istanbul as Erdogan issues warning against protests over mayor’s arrest

March 22, 2025 04:36 IST

Water cannons were used to break up demonstrations in Ankara, the capital, as well as in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir.

Deportees from US hop embassy-to-embassy in Panama in desperate scramble to seek asylum

March 21, 2025 13:56 IST

The focus of international humanitarian concern just weeks before, the deportees now say they're increasingly worried that with little legal and humanitarian assistance and no clear pathway forward offered by authorities, they may be forgotten.

Three Indian nationals face death penalty for smuggling drugs into Indonesia

March 21, 2025 13:38 IST

Raju Muthukumaran, 38, Selvadurai Dinakaran, 34, and Govindhasamy Vimalkandhan, 45, who have been working in the shipping industry in Singapore, were arrested for allegedly smuggling 106 kg of crystal meth aboard the Legend Aquarius cargo vessel.

China calls for protections for students in US after congressional panel demands data from colleges

March 21, 2025 13:15 IST

A letter sent to the universities, including Stanford and Carnegie Mellon, alleged that the Chinese government was embedding researchers in top American institutions to gain direct access to sensitive technologies.

North Korea says it tested new missiles as it threatens strong steps against US-South Korea drills

March 21, 2025 12:12 IST

The missile launches, North Korea’s sixth weapons testing activity this year, occurred on the same day that the US and South Korean militaries concluded their annual Freedom Shield command post exercise.

Meta’s Instagram down for thousands of US users, Downdetector shows

March 21, 2025 05:36 IST

There were more than 19,431 incidents of people reporting issues with the platform, as of 7:25 p.m. ET, according to Downdetector,

Jury convicts 2 men of plotting to assassinate Iranian American journalist in New York

March 21, 2025 05:31 IST

American officials have accused Iran of backing several assassination plots in the United States, including against President Donald Trump when he was campaigning last year.

Judge calls Trump administration’s latest response on deportation flights ‘woefully insufficient’

March 21, 2025 05:11 IST

The Justice Department has said the judge's verbal directions did not count, that only his written order needed to be followed and that it couldn't apply to flights that had already left the US.

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US extends deadline for New York to end Manhattan congestion program

March 21, 2025 01:32 IST

The US Transportation Department in February rescinded federal approval of the program that had been issued under Trump's predecessor Joe Biden after a lengthy review.

People named in JFK assassination documents not happy their personal information was released

March 21, 2025 01:16 IST

Joseph diGenova, a former campaign lawyer for President Donald Trump, was among those whose personal information was disclosed.

Turks protest, opposition defiant over Istanbul mayor’s detention

March 21, 2025 01:04 IST

Protestors gathered at a municipal headquarters and police station in Istanbul, and at universities and public squares across the country, leading to some scuffles with police officers.