18-05-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India is considering plans to dramatically increase the water it draws from a major river that feeds Pakistani farms downstream, as part of retaliatory action for a deadly April attack on tourists that New Delhi blames on Islamabad, according to four people familiar …

18-05-2025 TRIPOLI: Several ministers with Libya’s internationally recognized government have resigned in support of the protesters calling for Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah to step down. The government late on Friday said a police officer was killed in an “attempted assault” on the prime minister’s office as thousands of Libyans …

18-05-2025 NEW ORLEANS, LOS ANGELES: Ten prisoners, several of them facing murder charges, have escaped from a New Orleans jail and may have had help from staff inside the facility, authorities say. The inmates are thought to have fled around midnight, and were discovered missing during a headcount at 08:30 …

18-05-2025 LOUIS: Dozens of people are reported to have died after tornadoes tore through parts of two US states. Officials in Kentucky, said there had been nine deaths while seven people were killed in Missouri, including five in the city of St Louis. The Kentucky tornado struck in Laurel County, …

18-05-2025 GAZA STRIP/ CAIRO: Hamas says its negotiators have opened a new round of talks aimed at ending the war in Gaza, hours after Israel launched a major offensive. Taher al-Nounou, an adviser to the head of Hamas, told media a new round of negotiations had officially begun in Doha …

17-05-2025 BAGHDAD: Israel’s war on Gaza is dominating the talks at the annual summit of the Arab League in Baghdad, alongside other regional crises. In his opening speech at the 34th Arab Summit on Saturday, Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said; “this genocide (in Gaza) has reached a level …

17-05-2025 TEHRAN: Iran’s political and military leaders are pointing the finger back at Donald Trump after the United States president sharpened his rhetoric during his first major tour of the Middle East. In a speech to a group of teachers gathered for a state ceremony in Tehran on Saturday, Supreme …

17-05-2025 ISLAMABAD: Britain is working with the US to ensure a ceasefire between India and Pakistan endures and that “confidence-building measures” and dialogue take place, foreign minister David Lammy said on Saturday. Pakistan has said Britain and other countries, in addition to the United States, played a major role in …

17-05-2025 LONDON: British police say they have charged three Iranians with suspected espionage for Iran’s intelligence services from August 2024 to February 2025. The police said in a statement on Saturday that the three men were charged with offences under the National Security Act following a major counterterrorism investigation. Mostafa …

17-05-2025 HOUSTON: Moody’s Ratings has stripped the United States government of its top credit rating, citing successive governments’ failure to stop a rising tide of debt, a surprise move that could complicate President Donald Trump’s efforts to cut taxes and send ripples through global markets. On Friday, Moody’s lowered the …