11-07-2026 BEIJING: On Sunday, heavy rain began falling on Renhe village in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi. The villagers were used to it but the rain didn’t stop and the water suddenly rose. By the early hours of Monday, the water had reached their knees. By dawn, it had …

11-07-2026 WASHINTON/ TEHRAN: United States President Donald Trump says the ceasefire with Iran is “over”, describing Iranian leaders as “sick people” after Iran and the US exchanged military attacks. “I think it’s over. I don’t want to deal with them anymore, they’re scum,” Trump said on Wednesday at a NATO …

11-07-2026 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is searching for a Boeing cargo aircraft missing over the Arabian Sea with five crew members on board. The Karachi-bound 737-400 plane operated by a Pakistani carrier took off from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates and lost contact with …

10-07-2026 BEIJING: A Chinese court has sentenced a former senior official in the eastern city of Nanjing to death for accepting bribes. Yang Youlin illegally accepted money and property totaling more than 2.2 billion yuan ($324m) while holding various government posts from 1993 to 2023, the Changzhou Intermediate People’s Court …

10-07-2026 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: A number of Lebanon’s Christian villages released a statement on Monday, refuting claims by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they had requested Israeli annexation. “Christian villages in Lebanon, some of them have actually asked to be annexed to Israel, because we protect them against Hezbollah, Hezbollah …

10-07-2026 NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Feroz Aslam* sports an abashed smile whenever he hears the clink of a teacup on a saucer. He cannot see, but he knows it is his father. “For the past 10 years, it has been my parents ailing themselves who have been serving me food,” the …

10-07-2026 MUSCAT: A tanker caught fire off the coast of Oman on Monday night after being struck by an “unknown projectile” in the Strait of Hormuz, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO). Separately citing two unnamed US officials, news outlet Axios reported that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard …

10-07-2026 TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says negotiations on a final deal will not begin if threats continue, after US President Donald Trump warned that Washington will reach an agreement with Tehran or “finish the job”. The UK’s maritime agency says an “unknown projectile” has hit a tanker off …

10-07-2026 JERUSALEM/ WEST BANK: Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has declared that Israel has launched a “revolution in settlement” expansion, which he says will see illegal outposts extended beyond the occupied West Bank into the Negev and Galilee. The far-right minister’s post on the social media platform X follows the …

10-07-2026 KYIV/ MOSCOW: A Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv has killed at least 14 people and damaged more than a dozen residential buildings in the second large-scale assault on the Ukrainian capital in less than a week. The attack early on Monday morning wounded at least 46 people, …