07-06-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India is holding talks with companies to establish long-term stockpiles of rare earth magnets by offering fiscal incentives for domestic production, people familiar with the matter said. Building such a supply chain could take years but would reduce India’s dependence on shipments from China which …

07-06-2025 WASHINGTON: About $22 billion worth of SpaceX’s government contracts is at risk and multiple US space programs could face dramatic changes in the fallout of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s explosive feud on Thursday. The disagreement, rooted in Musk’s criticism of Trump’s tax-cut and spending legislation that began …

07-06-2025 LONDON: The Muslim chairman of the United Kingdom’s radical right-wing Reform UK party has quit after denouncing a call from within party ranks to ban the burqa as “dumb”. “I no longer believe working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time and hereby …

07-06-2025 WASHINGTON/ THE HAGUE: The administration of President Donald Trump has followed through with a threat to sanction officials on the International Criminal Court (ICC), naming four judges whom it accuses of taking “illegitimate and baseless actions” against the United States and its allies. On Thursday, US Secretary of State …

07-06-2025 JERUSALEM: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the country is using armed gangs in Gaza to help fight Hamas, his admission coming after a new wave of military strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip that left at least 52 Palestinians dead. Netanyahu said the government had “activated” powerful …

06-06-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israel has killed three journalists and critically wounded a fourth in an attack on Al-Ahali Hospital, also known as the Baptist Hospital, in Gaza City. At least 23 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza on Thursday. The US vetoes a United Nations Security Council …

06-06-2025 NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Apple has brought in Tata Group to handle repairs for iPhones and MacBook devices in its fast-growing Indian market, signaling the Indian conglomerate’s deepening role in the US tech giant’s supply chain, two people familiar with the matter said. As Apple, opens new tab looks beyond …

06-06-2025 JERUSALEM: Israeli forces have recovered the bodies of two Israeli-Americans taken back to Gaza as hostages during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, the Israeli military says. Judi Weinstein Haggai, 70, who was also a Canadian citizen, and her husband Gadi Haggai, 72, were murdered …

06-06-2025 KYIV/ MOSCOW: A NATO official has echoed President Donald Trump’s warning that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will seek revenge for Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russia’s military airfields. Following his phone call with the Russian president, Trump said Putin “will have to respond” to the attack on airfields, which …

06-06-2025 DAMASCUS/ DERAA: On the morning of 9 May, I was part of a BBC Arabic team which left the Syrian capital, Damascus, for the southern province of Deraa. From there we planned to go to the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. We wanted to get close to the …