Iran adopts new strategy under economic pressure: Pezeshkian
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian says his administration has adopted a new strategy to manage the country's situation as economic pressure mounts.
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Canada plans for the once unthinkable: a US attack
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Indian navy sailor arrested over 'honeytrap' espionage
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Trump to give $90 each to 20 million Medicare recipients
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Tennessee prisons chief to quit after failed execution
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Huge Mumbai march demands India's election chief resign
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Wreckage of missing medical plane found off Bermuda route
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Palestinian teacher opens school for Gaza children in Egypt
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PTI begins long march demanding Imran Khan's release
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OpenAI safety head resigns over the company's safety culture
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Medvedev warns of a space war over Russian satellites
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Iran's missile industry has 'matured', says IRGC commander
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Russia strikes a second bridge over the Dnipro in Kyiv
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Israeli settlers attack Palestinian homes in the West Bank
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Trump says the Iran war could end after the midterms
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US sends more Patriot batteries to Saudi Arabia and Qatar
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Shivon Zilis says she and Elon Musk have split
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Cockroach Janata Party calls new Delhi protest
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France's schools in turmoil as pupil protests turn violent
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Older workers in Kamarkhanda learn to read the Quran
Forty-two older labourers and traders who completed a free Quran course in Kamarkhanda, Sirajganj, were given copies of the Quran at a mosque on Friday.
Ben-Gvir says all of the West Bank belongs to Israel
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Argentina to offer citizenship for $350,000 investment
President Javier Milei's government says foreigners who invest at least $350,000 in Argentina will be able to obtain citizenship under a new programme.
Russia plans record defence spending in 2027 budget
Russia's draft budget plans a record 17.1 trillion roubles of defence spending in 2027, while cutting health, education and social budgets and raising taxes.
Survey finds China now outranks US in Latin America
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Pakistan summons Indian envoy over BSF killing of civilians
Pakistan lodged a strong protest with India on Saturday after two Pakistani civilians were shot dead near the border by India's Border Security Force.
Natore man aged 123 still reads the Quran without glasses
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China sets record with 116 underwater drones in one swarm
Chinese researchers set a Guinness World Record by running 116 autonomous underwater drones together in a swimming pool without direct human control.
Indian creator criticised for mocking Gaza destruction
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Trump declines to endorse Netanyahu before Israeli election
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Nobel judges wary after Trump furore: who is in contention
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NATO chief has no idea about Iran's nuclear work: Russia
Russia's envoy in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, says NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has no understanding of Iran's nuclear programme, after his war remarks.
US-led coalition ends its mission in Iraq
The US-led coalition ended its Iraq mission on Wednesday, welcomed by Iraqi leaders and Donald Trump, amid fears Iran-backed armed groups will grow stronger.
Tennessee death row inmate survives two lethal injections
Christa Gail Pike, 50, survived two doses of lethal injection in Tennessee and was taken unconscious to hospital, her lawyers say, in a rare failed execution.
Europe faces water crisis as Swiss glaciers melt fast
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We need no one's charity, Putin tells new Duma
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Graves vandalised at Islamic cemetery in Sydney
Headstones and memorials have been vandalised at the Al Noor Islamic cemetery in Narellan, south-west Sydney, alarming Muslims. Police are investigating.
South Korea to invest $200 billion in the US, Trump says
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Mahathir visits wife's grave, scatters flowers and prays
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Lapid accuses government of 'cheap politics' over flight
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says the government is playing cheap politics with security after the flydubai flight diverted to Saudi Arabia.
Iran says it has seized another US underwater drone
Iran's navy says it seized a US REMUS 600 underwater drone in the Strait of Hormuz using intelligence and electronic warfare, IRGC outlet Sepah News reports.
Prayer is the source of Iran's strength, supreme leader says
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has called prayer a key source of the nation's strength, hope and peace in a message to a religious conference.
Israelis divided ahead of election
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Saudi Arabia will respond firmly to any attack, says MBS
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Indian security officer kills four colleagues in Kathua
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