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US man convicted in 2023 shooting of three Palestinian students in Vermont 

21 September 2026

A jury in the US state of Vermont has convicted a man of attempted murder for shooting three Palestinian college student...

Putin’s party wins supermajority in Russia’s parliamentary vote 

21 September 2026

President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has won a record supermajority in tightly orchestrated parliamentary po...

Photos: Gaza’s children return to class in tents and ruins 

21 September 2026

Hundreds of thousands of children returned to in-person classes in Gaza on Saturday for the first time in nearly three y...

China expels two top ‘disloyal’ military leaders from Communist Party 

21 September 2026

News|Xi Jinping China has expelled two top military generals from the Chinese Communist Party on suspicion of corruption...

State of world getting worse as UN Security Council paralysed: Guterres 

21 September 2026

The state of the world seems to be getting worse due to a “dramatic geopolitical divide” that is leaving “the most...

Poor storage or sabotage? Series of explosions in Syria raises fears 

21 September 2026

A series of explosions at weapons and ammunition sites across Syria this month have exposed the difficulties facing the ...

Is it a missile? Is it a drone? What’s the Pelican used by Ukraine? 

21 September 2026

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday’s large-scale strike on Russia involved several weapons, including...

CNN, Politico, MS NOW to sue Trump administration over White House ban 

21 September 2026

News|Media Leading news outlets CNN, Politico and MS NOW have said they intend to sue the ⁠administration of United St...

Inside Kazakhstan’s push to become a regional AI centre 

21 September 2026

A young woman in a sleek bun and a jacket with Kazakh patterns smiles from the screen at a directors’ meeting of Samru...

What’s the US–China AI ‘hotline’ that Trump plans to pitch to Xi Jinping? 

21 September 2026

The United States wants a new “notification mechanism” with China to warn each other when an artificial intelligence...