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Sri Lanka rescues Iranian sailors in Indian ocean

Sri Lanka foreign minister, Vijitha Herath, said that his country’s navy rescued 32 ‘critically wounded’ sailors aboard the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena, which sank Wednesday just outside the island’s territorial waters.

Nepal readies for pivotal post-uprising vote

Nepal set up polling centres on Wednesday for one of its most hotly contested elections since the end of civil war in 2006, six months after deadly anti-corruption protests toppled

Trump insists he attacked Iran on his own terms

US president Donald Trump and his team scrambled Tuesday to reclaim the narrative on why he decided to attack Iran, after his top diplomat suggested the US struck only after

Meet Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, Iran’s Newly Appointed Interim Supreme Leader

Ayatollah Alireza Arafi was appointed jurist member of Iran’s interim Leadership Council on Sunday. This came after the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the US and Israel. The

ACC chairman, two commissioners resign

Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Dr Mohammad Abdul Momen, and two commissioners — Mian Mohammad Ali Akbar Azizi and Brigadier General (Retd) Hafiz Ahsan Farid — have submitted their

Bangladesh PM orders removal of congratulatory billboards across Dhaka

Bangladesh prime minister Tarique Rahman has ordered the swift removal of advertisements and banners congratulating him that have been displayed on billboards across various roads in the capital. The directive

US-UK relationship ‘not like it used to be’, says Trump

US president Donald Trump said the historical relationship between his country and Britain was ‘not like it used to be’, in an interview to British daily newspaper The Sun. ‘This

555 killed in Iran since start of war, Iran Red Crescent says

A total of 555 people have been killed across Iran in US and Israeli strikes that began two days ago, the Iranian Red Crescent said Monday. “Following the Zionist-American terrorist