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Sri Lanka issues landslide warnings as cyclone toll hits 618

BusinessDecember 7, 2025

Sri Lankan authorities issued fresh landslide warnings on Sunday with rains lashing areas already devastated by a powerful cyclone, as the death toll rose to 618. A chain of tropical storms and monsoo...

25 killed, 6 injured as fire rips through night club in India’s Goa

NewsDecember 7, 2025

A fire that ripped through an Indian nightclub in the popular tourist resort region of Goa killed 25 people, the state’s chief minister said on Sunday. Tourists were among the dead in the blaze, which...

Sri Lanka unveils cyclone aid plan as rains persist

NewsDecember 6, 2025

Disaster-hit Sri Lanka has unveiled a major compensation package to rebuild homes damaged by a deadly cyclone, even as the island prepared Saturday for further landslides and flooding. The government ...

US vaccine panel upends hepatitis B advice in latest Trump-era shift

HealthDecember 6, 2025

An advisory panel appointed by President Donald Trump’s vaccine-sceptic health secretary voted on Friday to stop recommending that all newborns in the United States receive a hepatitis B vaccine. The ...

Trump set for soccer — or football — diplomacy at World Cup draw

NewsDecember 5, 2025

Donald Trump still seems unsure whether to call it soccer or football. But the US president’s aim is truer when using the world’s favorite sport to score diplomatic goals. Trump will try to do so agai...

Mitchell Starc surpasses Wasim Akram as most prolific left-arm pacer in Test history

NewsDecember 4, 2025

Australian veteran Mitchell Starc became the most prolific left-arm paceman in Test history on Thursday, surpassing Pakistan great Wasim Akram. The 35-year-old bagged England’s Harry Brook at the Gabb...

Probe found US defence secretary’s Signal use to discuss strikes on Yemen could have put US troops at risk: reports

NewsDecember 4, 2025

The Pentagon’s independent watchdog said US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the commercial messaging app Signal to discuss strikes on Yemen could have put American troops at risk, US media rep...

Malaysia says search for long-missing flight MH370 to resume end of December

NewsDecember 3, 2025

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume at the end of December, Malaysia’s transport ministry said on Wednesday, more than a decade after the plane disappeared. The Boeing 77...

Cyclone turns Sri Lanka’s tea mountains into death valley

NewsDecember 3, 2025

NUWARA ELIYA: In the mist-draped mountains of Sri Lanka’s tea country, rescuers were still plucking bodies from the reddish-brown mud on Tuesday after last week’s cyclone, the island’s worst natural d...

If Europe wants war with Russia, ‘we are ready’: Putin

NewsDecember 2, 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia was “ready” for war if Europe seeks one, accusing the continent’s leaders of trying to sabotage a deal on the Ukraine conflict before he me...