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Much of the affected region has become mostly inaccessible to the UN and aid groups, with Doctors Without Borders describing the area as a ‘black hole’ in Sudan’s humanitarian response. Published On 3 Sep 20253 Sep 2025Sudan has appealed for international aid after a landslide destroyed an entire village in the western Darfur region, killing more than 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in recent history in the country beset by a brutal civil war.The village of Tarasin was “completely levelled to the ground,” the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), the rebel group that controls the area, said as…

As ICE ramps up for more deportations under President Trump, Nicholas Nehamas, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times, talks with applicants at an ICE recruitment fair in Texas.

The Punjab government has ordered the closure of all government, government-aided, and private schools, colleges, universities, and polytechnics across the state until September 7, 2025. Punjab schools, colleges, universities and polytechnics to remain closed till September 7 due to floods (Representative image) State Education Minister Harjot Bains has shared the update on his official X account. The tweet reads, “As directed by Hon’ble CM Punjab Sh. Bhagwant Singh Mann Ji, in view of the flood situation, all Govt/Aided/Recognized & Private Schools, Colleges, Universities & Polytechnics across Punjab will remain closed till 7th Sept 2025. Everyone is requested to strictly follow…

The IAEA has urged Syria to cooperate fully over allegations it had been building a covert nuclear reactor at the site – allegations Syria denies.Published On 3 Sep 20253 Sep 2025The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has said its inspectors discovered uranium particles at a site in Syria it suspects was once used as part of a clandestine nuclear programme run by the former government of Bashar al-Assad.Last year, inspectors visited and took environmental samples at “three locations that were allegedly functionally related” to the remote desert site Deir el-Zour, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spokesman Fredrik Dahl said in a…

With the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council’s two-day meeting underway, the next-generation reforms proposed for the eight-year old indirect tax regime are in focus. The Council will hold threadbare discussion on the Centre’s proposal that has been forwarded by the Group of Ministers for Rate Rationalisation.The Centre’s proposal for GST reforms seeks to undertake structural reforms for inverted duty correction, resolution of classification issues, rate rationalisation by reducing taxes for common-use items and aspirational goods, reduction of slabs and subsuming compensation cess, and streamlining the processes for registration, returns and refunds. The key focus would be on rate rationalisation…

More than 20 leaders from non-Western nations gathered in Tianjin, China over the weekend for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, which concluded on Monday, and at which President Xi Jinping set out his vision for a global economic order with the Global South at its centre.Against the backdrop of new global tariffs imposed by United States President Donald Trump, Xi told delegates: “We must continue to take a clear stand against hegemonism and power politics, and practise true multilateralism.”The summit brought together some of the strongest emerging economies, including India and Russia, which, along with China, account for more…

Image used for representational purposes | Photo Credit: Getty Images Wondering how friendship can be proved through documentary evidence, the Madras High Court has set aside an order passed by an Authorisation Committee, constituted to regulate unrelated organ donations, refusing permission for kidney transplantation between two individuals who claimed to be family friends. Justice N. Anand Venkatesh found that the committee had denied permission solely on the basis of the Erode Collector’s report, which stated that the donor C. Ganesan of Erode and recipient V. Periasamy of Thanjavur had not produced documents to prove they were family friends.“It is incomprehensible…

President Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday. Trump announces that U.S. Space Command will move its headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Trump announced he intends to move U.S. Space Command headquarters to Huntsville, Ala., in an Oval Office announcement on Tuesday. This is not the first time Trump intended to move Space Command to Alabama permanently. During the final days of his first term, he announced his choice over other locations, saying he personally made the decision. Then in…

President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Schiefelbein/AP WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump cannot use an 18th-century wartime law to speed the deportations of people his administration accuses of membership in a Venezuelan gang, blocking a signature administration push that is destined for a final showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the most conservative federal appeals courts in the country, agreed with…

David Keighley | Photo Credit: X/ @IMAX David Keighley, a central figure in the development of IMAX and one of the foremost advocates of large-format cinema, has died at the age of 77. His son, producer Geoff Keighley, confirmed that he passed away Thursday in New York following a battle with neuroendocrine prostate cancer.Over a career spanning more than five decades, Keighley worked on more than 500 IMAX productions, from nature documentaries to major Hollywood blockbusters. He began his journey in 1972, co-founding postproduction company DKP 70MM with his wife, Patricia, after being inspired by the IMAX film North of…