06-02-2025 NEW YORK, COLOMBIA: The pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, according to renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen, who said the international 2C target is “dead”. A new analysis by Hansen and colleagues concludes that both the impact of recent cuts in sun-blocking shipping pollution, which has …
Read More »Australia backs two-state solution after Trump’s Gaza plan
06-02-2025 CANBERRA: Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said; the government supported a two-state solution in the Middle East, following US. President Donald Trump’s shock announcement of plans to take over the Gaza Strip. “Australia’s position is the same as it was this morning, as it was last year,” Albanese told …
Read More »India’s finance ministry asks employees to avoid AI tools
06-02-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s finance ministry has asked its employees to avoid using AI tools including ChatGPT and DeepSeek for official purposes, citing risks posed to confidentiality of government documents and data; an internal department advisory showed. Countries like Australia and Italy have placed similar restrictions on the …
Read More »Congo rushes to bury bodies from rebel offensive
06-02-2025 KINSHASA: Rebels in eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, began a ceasefire on Tuesday and people rushed to bury some 2,000 victims of last week’s battles for the city as they feared the spread of disease. The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who captured Goma declared a ceasefire on Monday and largely …
Read More »Exit polls predict BJP victory in Delhi polls
New Delhi’Feb’5’2025:Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised to form the next government in Delhi with the ruling AAP falling behind, most exit polls predicted on Wednesday and said that Congress likely to continue its dismal run in the assembly polls. The exit polls varied in their prediction of margin of …
Read More »Spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims Aga Khan IV dies
05-02-2025 By SJA Jafri + Agencies LISBON, PORTUGAL/ KARACHI: Billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader Aga Khan has died at the age of 88, his charity the Aga Khan Development Network has announced. Prince Karim Aga Khan was the 49th hereditary imam of the Ismaili Muslims, who trace his lineage directly …
Read More »Modi invited to meet with Trump next week
05-02-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the White House next week, a White House official said, hours after a US military plane departed to return deported migrants to the country. Trump spoke with Modi on …
Read More »Sweden’s attack leaves 11 dead at Orebro adult school
05-02-2025 OREBRO: Eleven people were killed in a shooting at an adult education centre on Tuesday, Swedish police said, marking the country’s deadliest gun attack in what the prime minister called a “painful day.” Police said the gunman was believed to be among those killed and a search for other …
Read More »Saudi Arabia won’t establish ties with Israel
05-02-2025 WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia reiterates its stance against normalizing relations with Israel before a two-state solution has been reached, after US President Donald Trump said earlier that Riyadh has not made the establishment of a Palestinian state a condition for a peace deal with Israel. A statement from Saudi Arabia’s …
Read More »US wants to take over Gaza Strip: Trump
05-02-2025 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump pledged on Tuesday that the US would take over the war-ravaged Gaza Strip after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere and develop it economically, a move that would shatter decades of US policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Trump unveiled his surprise plan, without providing specifics, at a …
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