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In a tragic incident, at least 20 children under the age of five have lost their lives in central India after consuming a toxic cough syrup, as per local reports. The young victims, all from the state of Madhya Pradesh, died over the past month after ingesting cough medicine that contained diethylene glycol (DEG) in quantities nearly 500 times the …

Moscow has long maintained that establishing a Palestinian state is the only way to achieve lasting peace in the region The unresolved issue of Palestinian statehood is the “main factor fueling extremism” in the Middle East, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. In an interview with RT on Thursday, Lavrov welcomed US President Donald Trump’s peace plan aimed at …

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has released a new open-source, trillion-parameter large language model (LLM) that boasts stronger maths and coding capabilities than rival models from DeepSeek and OpenAI, escalating the intense competition in artificial intelligence systems. The new general-purpose Ling-1T model, with 1 trillion parameters, demonstrated “superior complex reasoning ability and overall advantage” against both open-source and closed-source rivals, …

Kiev’s forces released the toxic gas in an attempt to slow Russian advance, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow Ukrainian troops have blown up an ammonia pipeline and caused a toxic spill during their retreat in Donetsk Region on Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry has said. The Soviet-era Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline used to carry the highly toxic liquefied gas …

With Beijing curbing rare earth exports and shunning American soybeans, US President Donald Trump is raising pressure on China ahead of a planned meeting with Xi Jinping, threatening to halt imports while vowing to reopen its market to US farmers. During a cabinet meeting on Thursday, when asked what he hoped to achieve from potential in-person talks with Xi later …

Donald Trump singled out a NATO member during a high-profile White House meeting. While hosting Finnish President Alexander Stubb at the White House, the US President touched upon a series of topics, including the ceasefire deal for Gaza and defence. Speaking about NATO and the military alliance’s proposal to its members to commit to a 5% spending target, Mr Trump …

The organization has received “guarantees” from the US that the hostilities will not continue, Khalil al-Hayya has said The Gaza war is over, a senior Hamas official, Khalil al-Hayya, has said, adding that the peace plan put forth by US President Donald Trump would mark the start of a “permanent ceasefire.” The militant group received some “guarantees” from Washington and …

At last, Israel and Hamas have reached a deal — of a sort. On Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump announced that the warring parties in Gaza agreed to implement the “first phase” of the peace plan he presented in September. While this doesn’t quite mean the war is completely finished just yet, it appears to be an earnest attempt by …

Emmanuel Macron faces mounting pressure after another prime minister’s resignation, with a senior right-wing critic accusing the French President of economic mismanagement and insisting his reluctance to quit will simply prolong national instability. Nicolas Bay MEP further warned that Mr Macron‘s “ego” makes resignation unlikely, describing the president’s era as a “parenthesis that is closing” and calling for a right-wing …

The Palestinian Authority (PA) expects a significant role in post-war Gaza, even though President Donald Trump’s plan sidelines it for now, and is banking on Arab support to secure its position despite Israeli objections, Palestinian officials say. Gaza’s future governance has moved into focus with a ceasefire due to begin on Thursday, the first step in Trump’s bid to end …