13-07-2025 BEIJING/ BANGKOK: China urged Cambodia and Thailand to resolve their border dispute through friendly dialogue, offering to play a constructive role by upholding an “objective and fair” position, its foreign ministry said. Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged peaceful coexistence between the neighbors during a meeting on Thursday with Thai …

13-07-2025 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to impose a 30% tariff on imports from Mexico and the European Union starting on August 1, after weeks of negotiations with the key US allies and top trading partners failed to reach a comprehensive trade deal. In an escalation of Trump’s …

13-07-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Just moments before a fatal Air India crash on June 12, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s fuel-control switches in the cockpit mysteriously moved from the “run” to the “cutoff” position, an early investigation into the disaster has revealed. Flipping to cutoff almost immediately cuts the engines. …

13-07-2025 UNITED NATIONS: A new report by the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has found that sand and dust storms are leading to “premature deaths” due to climate change, with more than 330 million people in 150 countries affected. On Saturday, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) marked the International …

12-07-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 82 people since dawn, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, amid ongoing ceasefire talks and criticism of plans to forcibly transfer Palestinians to Rafah. Among those killed on Thursday, 15 people, including nine children and four women, were killed in …

12-07-2025 SIKASSO, MALI: The Kayes region, which borders Senegal and is vital to Mali’s economy, had remained largely untouched by the violence from armed groups that has rocked the country for several decades but that changed when armed men waged a string of coordinated attacks on military installations in several …

12-07-2025 WASHINGTON: A US judge has once again blocked President Donald Trump from implementing an executive order ending birthright citizenship for some US residents as a legal challenge moves forward. A New Hampshire judge approved a class action lawsuit against Trump’s executive order and temporarily stopped the president’s order from …

12-07-2025 DOHA/ GAZA/  JERUSALEM: Hamas says it has agreed to release 10 Israeli captives as part of continuing efforts to reach a ceasefire in the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip, but warned that ongoing talks for a truce were “tough” due to Israel’s “intransigence”. The comments on Wednesday came as …

12-07-2025 NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: After years of border tensions, India and China appear to be gradually moving towards resetting ties but larger challenges and suspicions remain. The visit of two senior Indian officials to China late last month was seen as a sign of a thaw in bilateral relations. In …

12-07-2025 SANA’A/ DUBAI: Six crew members have been rescued and at least three others killed after a cargo ship was attacked by Yemen’s Houthis and sank in the Red Sea, a European naval mission says. The Liberian-flagged, Greek-operated Eternity C was carrying 25 crew when it sustained significant damage and …