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Bangladesh's measles death toll has hit 488 — and UNICEF has now revealed it sent five to six formal letters and held 10 meetings warning the previous government about vaccine shortages that could…
Students in Mastung, Balochistan blocked a national highway demanding laptops promised under Pakistan's PM Youth Laptop Scheme —…
Australia is battling its worst diphtheria outbreak since national records began — 230 cases, a death in the Northern Territory,…
PM Modi's diplomatic gift bag in Italy carried more than symbolism — Govindobhog rice from Bardhaman, a GI-tagged aromatic…
A student's gripe about standing in a smoking zone at a Chinese university became an unlikely flashpoint for one of the world's…
India used the 11th BRICS Counter Terrorism Working Group meeting — the first under its 2026 chairship — to push for a…
For the first time since the India–Africa Forum Summit was established in 2008, the quadrennial summit has been postponed — not…
White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks called Jeff Bezos 'based' and 'awesome' in a May 21, 2026 post on X. The brief…
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former DOGE co-lead, posted on May 20, 2026, that building top four-year universities and expanding…
