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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
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Polish student detained over suspected Christmas market attack plot

WARSAW, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Polish security services have detained a student suspected of preparing a "mass attack" at a Christmas market, Jacek Dobrzynski, a spokesperson for Poland's special services

Rwanda-backed M23 group says it will withdraw from seized Congo town after US request

Dec 16 (Reuters) - Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have said they would withdraw from the eastern Congo town of Uvira at the request of the U.S. administration, which had criticised seizure of the town last

UN envoy hopeful on Cyprus, says multi-party summit premature

NICOSIA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The key U.N. envoy seeking to break a deadlock in Cyprus's long-running division said she was cautiously optimistic about a breakthrough but that it would be premature to

Rupee falls further against the dollar, breaches the 91 threshold for the first time

The currency fell 0.3% to 91.0750, hitting a record low for a fourth consecutive session. The rupee had declined past 90 for the first time on 3 December.

Man, couple who died trying to stop Bondi Beach attackers praised for heroic efforts

SYDNEY, Dec 16 (Reuters) - While a Sydney shopowner is being hailed as a hero after disarming one of the gunmen shooting at a Jewish holiday event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, a couple and another man who

Trump sues BBC over documentary showing edited clips of speech, seeks $10 billion in damages

Trump's lawsuit alleges BBC defamed him & violated a Florida law that bars deceptive and unfair trade practices. He is seeking $5 bn in damages for each of the lawsuit's two counts.

China reiterates demand that Japanese PM retract Taiwan remarks

BEIJING, Dec 16 (Reuters) - China on Tuesday reiterated its demand that Japan retract Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks about Taiwan, more than a month after Takaichi said an attack on the

Iraq’s dreams of wheat independence dashed by water crisis

NAJAF, Iraq, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Iraqi wheat farmer Ma'an al-Fatlawi has long depended on the nearby Euphrates River to feed his fields near the city of Najaf. But this year, those waters, which made

Thailand works to repatriate thousands stranded at Cambodia border crossing

By Panu Wongcha-um and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Thailand is working out how to repatriate up to 6,000 citizens unable to return home through a major border crossing in Cambodia

Teenage preacher to alleged mass killer: Bondi attack suspect’s background emerges

By Alasdair Pal and Karen Lema SYDNEY/MANILA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Standing in the rain outside a suburban Sydney train station, seventeen-year-old Naveed Akram stares into the camera and urges those

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Top 10 picks of Serendipity Art Festival 2025 by Rohit Chawla

Through film, textile, scent, sound, and gesture, spectators are invited to descend into an immersive environment where inherited knowledge seeps through material and form.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.