10-05-2025 GENEVA/ GAZA STRIP: The United States has said a new foundation is being established to coordinate aid deliveries to Gaza amid Israel’s two-month blockade. US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told reporters on Friday that Israel would not be involved in distributing aid in the enclave but would provide …

10-05-2025 VATICAN CITY: The new Pope, Leo XIV, has called for the Catholic Church to “desperately” counter a lack of faith in his first mass at the Vatican. Speaking the day after he was elected as the 267th Pope and first US leader of the Church, he warned that people …

10-05-2025 MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin has led Russia’s Victory Day commemorations with a parade in Red Square and heightened security after days of Ukrainian strikes targeting the capital. China’s Xi Jinping joined Putin as he told thousands of soldiers and more than 20 international leaders that Russia remembered the lessons of …

10-05-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to suspend the remainder of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 “with immediate effect for one week”, according to a statement on Friday. An IPL match on Thursday was abandoned midway …

09-05-2025 MOSCOW: Chinese President Xi Jinping flew into Moscow on Wednesday for talks with President Vladimir Putin and a pomp-filled visit that Kyiv has made clear it opposes after Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow shortly before he touched down. Xi, whose country buys more Russian oil and gas than any other, …

09-05-2025 BEIRUT: Israel launched dozens of airstrikes in south Lebanon on Thursday, in one of its heaviest bombardments of the region since a ceasefire ended last year’s war with the Iran-backed Hezbollah. The Israeli military said it had hit a Hezbollah infrastructure site in the south. There was no immediate …

09-05-2025 TEHRAN/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi called for restraint between India and Pakistan upon landing in New Delhi on Thursday, state media reported, a day after India targeted what it says are “terrorist camps” in Pakistan in retaliation for a deadly attack on tourists in Kashmir …

09-05-2025 LONDON: The United States and Britain will announce a deal to lower tariffs on some goods on Thursday, the first such agreement since US President Donald Trump sparked a global trade war with universal levies. In posts on Truth Social, Trump said he would hold an Oval Office news …

09-05-2025 VICTORIA: The auction house Sotheby’s has postponed its sale in Hong Kong of hundreds of sacred jewels linked to the Buddha’s remains, after a threat of legal action by the Indian government. The sale of the collection described as one of the most astonishing archaeological finds of the modern …

09-05-2025 NEW YORK: New York police have arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters after they occupied part of the main library at Columbia University on Wednesday. Two university security officers were injured when protesters forced their way into Butler Library on Wednesday, according to a statement from the university president, who …