21-06-2026 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: The prices of Apple products will have to increase due to the new demand for memory chips from the artificial intelligence boom, outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook has told The Wall Street Journal. “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” he told the newspaper on Wednesday, adding that …

21-06-2026 DUBAI: Oil prices have dropped following the United States and Iran’s signing of an interim peace agreement, resuming a slide interrupted by US President Donald Trump’s warning that he could restart his military campaign. Brent crude fell 2.3 percent today in Asia, returning the international benchmark to near to …

21-06-2026 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: The US-Iran memorandum of understanding announced on Wednesday amounts to a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and a deal to try to reach a final agreement on almost everything else. President Donald Trump framed it as a major win for the US in a lengthy press …

21-06-2026 JERUSALEM: “The whole land of Israel was promised to the children of God… and this is where we are going to build a new Temple for the entire humanity to come and pray together.” Those were the potentially incendiary words of Moshe Feiglin, a right-wing nationalist Israeli politician, who …

21-06-2026 MOSCOW: Moscow has come under the largest Ukrainian attack since the start of the full-scale war, with close to 200 drones hitting targets around the Russian capital and setting columns of thick smoke billowing high into the sky. Seventeen people were wounded in the Moscow region, according to local …

21-06-2026 QUITO: An Ecuadorean man, who police accuse of leading a faction of one of the country’s most feared criminal gangs, has been shot dead as he was leaving the airport in Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil. Security footage shows two young men waiting outside the arrivals terminal holding stuffed toys …

21-06-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Messaging platform Telegram on Wednesday challenged before the Delhi High Court the Union government’s decision to ban it in India till the undergraduate National Eligibility cum Entrance Test is held, Bar and Bench reported. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology restricted access …

Police Conduct Elephant Trial Run, Tighten Security for Bibi Ka Alawa, Hyderabad, June 20 (PMI) On the occasion of Muharram, Hyderabad City Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar, IPS, visited the historic Bibi Ka Alam at Dabirpura, Darushifa, on Saturday. He offered dhatti and participated in special prayers. Later, along with MLC Mirza …

CP V.C. Sajjanar Flags Off Elephant Trial Run,  Hyderabad June 20 (PMI) On the occasion of Muharram, Hyderabad City Police Commissioner V. C. Sajjanar visited the historic Bibi Ka Alawa at Dabirpura and Darushifa on Saturday. He offered ceremonial respects and participated in special prayers. Later, along with MLC Mirza …

20-06-2026 LONDON: The United Kingdom’s competition ⁠watchdog has ordered Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work, as part of new rules addressing concerns over the US ⁠tech giant’s dominance in the sector. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Wednesday said Google must rank organic search …