02-11-2025 KINGSTON: At least 19 people have died in Jamaica as a result of Hurricane Melissa, Information Minister Dana Morris Dixon says, as search and rescue efforts continue and authorities try to get aid to hard-hit areas. The hurricane, one of the most powerful to strike the Caribbean, also killed …

02-11-2025 OTTAWA/ BEIJING: China’s President Xi Jinping met with Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday, with the leaders vowing to advance bilateral relations and Carney accepting Xi’s invitation to visit China. They held a summit on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Gyeongju, South Korea, …

02-11-2025 Bureau Report: NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Air India is seeking at least 100 billion rupees ($1.14 billion) in financial support from owners Singapore Airlines, opens new tab and Tata Sons, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The development follows a deadly Air India crash in …

02-11-2025 WASHINGTON: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States has announced that it disrupted an alleged “terrorist attack” in the northern state of Michigan. Few details were released about the operation or the suspects involved. In a social media post on Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel pledged …

02-11-2025 DODOMA: Tanzania’s main opposition party has claimed that hundreds of people were killed in protests following this week’s disputed elections, while the United Nations says it has “credible reports” at least 10 people died. “As we speak, the number of deaths in (Dar-es-Salaam) is around 350 and there are …

02-11-2025 KHARTOUM: Abubakr Ahmed was ready to die on the soil he had fought so hard to defend from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). For 550 days, he fought as a member of the “popular resistance”, a neighborhood group formed to help the army and aligned armed groups protect …

02-11-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: Israel has returned the bodies of 30 more Palestinians to Gaza as part of an ongoing exchange deal under a US-brokered ceasefire plan, a hospital told media on Friday. Al-Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis told media that “the bodies of 30 Palestinian prisoners were received …

01-11-2025 ANKARA: Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to extend a ceasefire for at least another week during talks in Turkiye, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The sides plan to meet again at a higher-level gathering in Istanbul on November 6 to finalize how the ceasefire will be implemented, …

01-11-2025 WASHINGTON/ BALTIMORE: The Trump administration is formally announcing a refugee admissions ceiling of just 7,500 people for Fiscal Year 2026, the lowest in US history while primarily using those limited slots for Afrikaners from South Africa. The Presidential Determination, to be published Oct. 31 in the Federal Register, cites …

01-11-2025 PORT-AU-PRINCE/ HAVANA: The scale of devastation left by Hurricane Melissa is becoming clear after the record-setting storm tore through Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba, leaving at least 34 people dead. Although downgraded from a category five to a category two storm, Melissa gathered speed as it swept through the Bahamas …