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MBBS Abroad Just Got Easier: Philippines Emerges as a Game-Changer for Indian Students

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New Delhi [India], June 5: As the NEET UG 2025 results approach, Indian students face tough decisions regarding medical education options amid limited government seats and high private college fees. In this context, the Philippines is emerging as a key destination for Indian students seeking MBBS degrees abroad.

In a recent move aimed at promoting tourism, the Philippines government announced visa-free

Trump views Zelensky as bad guy NYT

The US president believes that the Ukrainian leader is edging the world to the precipice of nuclear war, the report says

US President Donald Trump is frustrated with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, seeing him as a "bad guy" who is pushing the world closer to nuclear conflict, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing sources.

Unnamed Trump advisers told the NYT that the president

Whites to become minority in UK in 40 years study

Low birth rates among indigenous Brits and mass migration are driving the trend, an analysis shows

White Britons will become a minority in their own country in less than four decades, a recent study has suggested.

The UK has seen a massive influx of legal and illegal migration under successive Conservative and Labour governments, with a record high of 906,000 new arrivals in 2023, according

EU allows members to spend Covid cash on arming Kiev Politico

Brussels has loosened conditions for using the remaining 335 billion in the pandemic recovery fund

The European Commission has allowed member states to redirect funds they have struggled to claim from the joint pandemic recovery pot for national development projects into bloc-wide security and defense initiatives - with significantly less oversight and fewer bureaucratic hurdles.

The EU est

UN Women statement on World Environment Day, 5 June 2025

Plastic pollution is eroding systems, livelihoods, and health—disproportionately harming women and girls who work in informal sectors such as fisheries and tourism, and who rely on natural resources for their daily survival. For these women and girls, plastic pollution is not an abstract threat—it is a daily reality. It contaminates their water, undermines their work, and compromises their health.

In the face of

EU to debate accelerating departure of Ukrainian immigrants - Euractiv

Bloc members are reportedly reviewing support for Ukrainians amid rising costs and increasing social tensions

EU member states will consider what to do with the millions of Ukrainian immigrants currently in the bloc at an upcoming meeting, as a scheme used to skip normal asylum procedures winds down, Euractiv reported

EU to debate accelerating departure of Ukrainian immigrants Euractiv

Bloc members are reportedly reviewing support for Ukrainians amid rising costs and increasing social tensions

EU member states will consider what to do with the millions of Ukrainian immigrants currently in the bloc at an upcoming meeting, as a scheme used to skip normal asylum procedures winds down, Euractiv reported on Wednesday.

Discussions on phasing-out the Temporary Protection Directi

Popular weight loss drug raises risk of 'silent' cancer - study

New research has indicated a 33% higher incidence of kidney cancer among Ozempic users compared to non-users

Ozempic and similar weight loss medications may increase the risk of kidney cancer, according to a major study. However, the drugs reportedly lower the risk of more than a dozen other cancers, suggesting their

Popular weight loss drug raises risk of silent cancer study

New research has indicated a 33% higher incidence of kidney cancer among Ozempic users compared to non-users

Ozempic and similar weight loss medications may increase the risk of kidney cancer, according to a major study. However, the drugs reportedly lower the risk of more than a dozen other cancers, suggesting their overall benefit may still outweigh the hazards.

A recent study presented a

Illegitimate Kiev regime turning into terrorist organization Putin

The latest terrorist acts carried out by Ukraine in Russia are the outcome of decisions made by the political leadership, the president has said

Facing heavy battlefield losses, the "illegitimate Kiev regime" has resorted to organizing terrorist attacks to try to intimidate Russia, President Vladimir Putin has said.

The recent acts of railway sabotage in Russia's Bryansk and Kursk Regions w

NATO summit to avoid Ukraine membership issue AFP

The blocs members are concerned that the topic could lead to a public rift between the EU and US, the agencys sources have said

NATO leaders convening for a key summit this month will deliberately avoid discussing membership for Ukraine, AFP reported on Wednesday, citing sources. The bloc's members are reportedly wary of raising the issue due to fears it could exacerbate tensions between the EU a

Woman arrested for gathering intel near Crimean Bridge FSB

The strategic Russian transport link has withstood numerous Ukrainian attacks, including another one earlier this week

A woman has been arrested in Russia for allegedly collecting intelligence on air defense systems near the Crimean Bridge for Kiev, the Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Wednesday. Another woman suspected of operating on behalf of Ukraine was also detained, according to

US intel behind Ukrainian attack on Russian planes ex-French spy

Kiev could not have remotely piloted drones deep inside Russia without American satellite data, according to Guillaume Ancel

Ukraine would not have been able to remotely attack strategic Russian aircraft parked deep inside Russian territory without direct intelligence and satellite support from the US, a former officer in the French military has claimed.

Ukrainian drones struck airbases acr

Man arrested in EU state for providing Russian TV access

Latvia has barred media outlets linked to Moscow from reaching audiences since the Ukraine conflict escalated in 2022, citing alleged propaganda  

Latvian police have arrested a man accused of providing access to banned Russian television channels to more than 400 households across the country, according to loca

Arming Kiev could count as NATO defense spending Euractiv

Western officials have called the Ukraine conflict a proxy war against Russia

NATO members could formally include weapons supplies to Ukraine as part of increased defense budgets, according to a proposal cited by Euractiv on Tuesday.

Members of the US-led military bloc have already provided hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of arms to Ukraine in what isincreasinglyrecognized as a Weste