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Two commercial vessels with 22 Indians aboard were hijacked off the coasts of Yemen and Somalia. The hijacking incidents point at a severe escalation of maritime security threats across the Horn of Africa.

Celebrations of the centenary of Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to Indonesia soared higher with the presentation of the latest collection of batik textile garments by an Indian fashion designer, Papri Basak from Shantiniketan, at a fashion show in Jakarta.

Shamso Bibi, also known as Ayesha Gilamana, had been making TikTok videos for around three to four years and had amassed about 1.3 million followers. Her brother Rehmatullah said her account had received more than 30 million likes before the family deactivated it following her death.

In this wildlife sanctuary in South Africa, traffic jams are caused by elephants; lions nap harder than retirees, and every bush might be a leopard—or just your imagination with binoculars.

Warnings of an assassination plot by Iran had made major secret changes in the modes of Donald Trump's international travel in July, according to reports published in major US newspapers.