Thailand’s Queen Suthida made her first solo flight in a JAS 39C Gripen fighter jet on Thursday, October 8, 2026, in the presence of King Maha Vajiralongkorn.
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The Japanese government has announced that it will resume reviewing public expenditure in an effort to find funding for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s costly policy initiatives.
When Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi arrived in Lakki Marwat on Sunday, a large crowd had gathered to welcome him.
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The Donald Trump administration has suspended several major Indian IT companies and prominent technology firms, including Microsoft, Adobe, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, and HCL Technologies, from the Green Card sponsorship program.
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Sources said on Thursday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is leaning toward postponing the parliamentary elections, which are scheduled to take place on November 28.
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Türkiye has made it clear that, despite its defense agreement with Saudi Arabia, it will not send troops onto the territory of another country to conduct operations against Yemen’s Houthi movement.
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Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have reached a staff-level agreement for $1.21 billion under two separate financial programs.
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A proposal has emerged to set a $70,000 fee for work training for international students in the United States.
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Former Afghan prime minister and leader of Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, has criticized the Taliban government,
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Dozens of protesters gathered outside Japan’s Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Thursday following the arrest of a U.S. Marine accused of killing a woman in the southern prefecture of Okinawa.
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The awarding institution announced on Thursday that Canadian writer Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for her “bold and innovative body of work,”
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On Thursday, China nominated health official Song Li as a candidate to head the World Health Organization (WHO), putting her forward to succeed current Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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Israel has closed the British Consulate in Jerusalem and expelled 20 diplomats from the country in response to British sanctions against Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank
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