Rothschild family to sell entire stake in The Economist: reports

Rothschild family to sell entire stake in The Economist: reports

Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: AP British philanthropist Lynn Forester de Rothschild is looking to offload her family’s entire stake in global media and information company The Economist, Axios reported on Tuesday (October 7, 2025), citing a source familiar with the transaction. The Rothschilds hold a stake of 26.7% — which … Read more

Grenade attack in western Iran kills two IRGC members: local media

Grenade attack in western Iran kills two IRGC members: local media

Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) force attend a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran April 14, 2023. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters A grenade attack in western Iran, blamed on militants, killed two members … Read more

Dubai airshow bars Israeli companies from exhibiting: organiser

Dubai airshow bars Israeli companies from exhibiting: organiser

File image from the Dubai Air Show, United Arab Emirates in November 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Israeli defence companies have been barred from the upcoming Dubai Airshow after a “technical review”, its organiser said on Tuesday, without providing further details, two years into the devastating Gaza war. Registrations were withdrawn for all six Israeli … Read more

Gaza babies forced to share oxygen masks as Israel blocks equipment: UNICEF

Gaza babies forced to share oxygen masks as Israel blocks equipment: UNICEF

A nurse looks after a baby in an incubator at the maternity ward of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel has repeatedly denied permission to transfer incubators from an evacuated hospital in North Gaza, a U.N. children’s agency official said on Tuesday (October 7, 2025), … Read more

World Bank says Sri Lanka’s economic recovery remains incomplete, calls for urgent reforms

World Bank says Sri Lanka's economic recovery remains incomplete, calls for urgent reforms

 Despite strong recent growth, low inflation, and robust external inflows, food prices remain high, and reserve accumulation has slowed in Sri Lanka. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Sri Lanka’s recent economic performance has been strong, but the recovery remains incomplete, the World Bank said on Tuesday (October 7, 2025). “With growth still below pre-crisis levels … Read more

Nepal Gen-Z protests: FIR registered against deposed PM Oli, his Home Minister

Nepal Gen-Z protests: FIR registered against deposed PM Oli, his Home Minister

A demonstrator holding a placard that reads “This is not your father’s country – Incompetent, corrupted Oli’s government” sits in front of a burned vehicle during the protest against anti-corruption triggered by a social media ban, in Kathmandu, Nepal. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Nepal’s youth-led Gen-Z group, which organised anti-government protests last month, on … Read more

Watch: Two years, 65,000 deaths: The data story of Gaza’s war

Watch: Two years, 65,000 deaths: The data story of Gaza’s war

Two years into the conflict, Gaza faces a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented scale. Nearly 2 million people are struggling with severe food insecurity, and almost one in three children suffer from malnutrition. Source link

Pro-Palestinian protests on second anniversary of Hamas’ attack on Israel

Pro-Palestinian protests on second anniversary of Hamas' attack on Israel

A student holds a section of a banner listing children who, according to pro-Palestinian protesters on the march, have been killed in Gaza by Israel over the past two years, during an inter-university march in support of Palestinians, on the second anniversary of the deadly October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas from Gaza, … Read more

Ukraine strike on Russia-held part of Kherson region kills four

Ukraine strike on Russia-held part of Kherson region kills four

Ukrainian rescuers work among the rubble at an energy infrastructure facility following a drone attack in Kharkiv on October 7, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | Photo Credit: AFP A Ukrainian strike on the Russia-held part of Ukraine’s Kherson region killed four people, the Moscow-installed governor said Tuesday, as Kyiv stepped up retaliatory … Read more