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US President Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters/File

White House lays off thousands of US government workers, blaming shutdown

Democrats are holding out for an extension of health-insurance subsidies, arguing health costs will increase dramatically for many of the 24 million Americans who get their coverage through the...

Taliban Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi is welcomed on his arrival at New Delhi, India on 9 October 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Randhir Jaiswal via X/Handout

India to reopen its embassy in Afghanistan

France's President Emmanuel Macron speaks with guests during a reception as part of the 35th anniversary of German reunification celebrations for the Day of German Unity at the Congresshalle hall in Saarbruecken, Germany, October 3, 2025. Photo: Reuters

France's Macron will appoint new prime minister in next 48 hours

Japan's former internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi delivers a speech at the kick-off of the campaign for the LDP presidential election in Tokyo, Japan, on 22 September 2025. Photo: Reuters

Japan's Takaichi eyes expanding coalition

France's President Emmanuel Macron looks on after a family photo on the day of the Euro-Mediterranean Summit (EU-MED9) in a resort near Paphos, Cyprus, October 11, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou

Macron wanders alone by the Seine as grip on his future slips away

Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Sanae Takaichi reacts as she receives an applause from gathered lawmakers on the day of the LDP leadership election in Tokyo, Japan, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool

Japan's Takaichi set to become country's first female PM

Photo: BSS

CA's speech at UNGA: BNP calls it 'strong enough', Jamaat says 'excellent'

A protester waves a national flag as vehicles burn during a protest against a social media ban and corruption in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Abuse of PR system in Nepal fuels instability ahead of polls: Analysts

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) walks to the Senate Chamber as the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump continues in Washington, US, January 27, 2020/ Reuters

Ted Cruz likens FCC chair’s 'dangerous' threat to ABC to mafia-style intimidation

File photo of Nepal's former chief justice Sushila Karki. Photo: Collected

Reluctant leader: Karki agrees to guide Nepal through crisis, vows six-month term

French President Emmanuel Macron, welcomed by French Minister of Armed Forces Sebastien Lecornu, walks on the tarmac after disembarking from an Airbus A400M military plane for a visit at the 55th International Paris Airshow at Le Bourget Airport near Paris, France, June 20, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/Pool/File Photo

France's Macron names loyalist Lecornu as new prime minister

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi is pictured next to India's new parliament building a day before the inauguration of the building in New Delhi, India, September 18, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File photo

Indian lawmakers vote to elect new vice president

France's President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a joint press conference with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky following the Coalition of the Willing Summit, at the Elysee presidential Palace, in Paris, France on September 4, 2025. Photo: LUDOVIC MARIN/Pool via REUTERS/File photo

Stalemate or surrender: France's Macron is left with no good options