Lukashenko pockets massive win in Belarus election scorned by the West
According to results from the Central Election Commission, Alexander Lukashenko took 86.8% of the vote in Sunday's election.
Mon Jan 27 2025
American Airlines jet collides with helicopter near Washington's Reagan Airport
The Washington Post reports that multiple bodies have been recovered from the water.
Thu Jan 30 2025
UK backs third runway at London's Heathrow Airport
Heathrow Airport is operating at 99% capacity and risks being overtaken in Europe.
Thu Jan 30 2025
Sarawak floods: Number of victims almost doubles to 5,385
Based on the latest report from the Sarawak Disaster Management Committee Secretariat, Bintulu has the highest number of flood victims.
Thu Jan 30 2025
Plane crash in South Sudan kills 20 oil workers
The small aircraft carrying oil workers in South Sudan's Unity State crashed on takeoff from its oilfield airport.
Thu Jan 30 2025
Miri landslide: Residents urged to evacuate if ordered
Sarawak Transport Minister says this is to prevent a recurrence of the recent tragedy in Kampung Lereng Bukit, which claimed five lives.
Thu Jan 30 2025
Families reunite in north Gaza as huge crowds return to smashed homes
Thousands of displaced people returning from south are going back looking for surviving family members and whatever remains of their homes.
Thu Jan 30 2025
Syria's Sharaa declared president for transition, consolidating his power
Sharaa was also empowered to form a temporary legislative council for a transitional period and the Syrian constitution was suspended.
Thu Jan 30 2025
Atomic scientists adjust 'Doomsday Clock' closer than ever to midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock to 89 seconds before midnight - the theoretical point of annihilation.
Thu Jan 30 2025
Alibaba releases AI model it claims surpasses DeepSeek-V3
Alibaba's cloud unit says, Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B.
Thu Jan 30 2025
India sends navigation satellite into orbit on ISRO rocket in landmark launch
India successfully launched into orbit a new navigation satellite aboard a home-grown rocket.
Thu Jan 30 2025