07-02-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s proposal for a US takeover of Gaza was met with anger and blunt rejection from regional allies, delight from Israel’s far right and a warning against “ethnic cleansing” from the head of the UN. The secretary general, Antonio Guterres, planned to tell a UN …

07-02-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ KINSHASA: More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according to the UN. Hundreds of prisoners broke out of Munzenze prison last Monday, after fighters from the M23 rebel group began to take over the …

06-02-2025 LONDON/ MIDDLESBROUGH: In the middle of last year, Shazia Noor Ghani’s phone was a relentless barrage of anxiety, fear, and heartbreak. A mother of three, she found herself at the centre of a desperate crisis, managing a hotline that was inundated with calls from terrified Muslim women in Middlesbrough, …

New Delhi’, February 6: On Wednesday, Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) staged a protest demanding a discussion in Parliament regarding the recent deportation of over 100 Indian nationals from the United States. Several MPs, including Amritsar MP Gurujit Singh Aujla, joined the protest while sporting handcuffs, symbolizing the inhumane treatment …

06-02-2025 LONDON: A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally “unwrapped”, providing the first look inside for 2,000 years. The document, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD and is too fragile to ever …

06-02-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ AMRITSAR: A US deportation flight carrying about 100 Indian nationals accused of entering the country illegally has landed in the state of Punjab. The military aircraft, which left Texas late on Tuesday, is now in the city of Amritsar where authorities say they …

06-02-2025 BEIJING: China announced a wide range of measures on Tuesday targeting US businesses including Google, opens new tab, farm equipment makers and the owner of fashion brand Calvin Klein, minutes after new US tariffs on Chinese goods took effect. Beijing also slapped tariffs on US products such as coal, …

06-02-2025 NEW YORK, COLOMBIA: The pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, according to renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen, who said the international 2C target is “dead”. A new analysis by Hansen and colleagues concludes that both the impact of recent cuts in sun-blocking shipping pollution, which has …

06-02-2025 CANBERRA: Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said; the government supported a two-state solution in the Middle East, following US. President Donald Trump’s shock announcement of plans to take over the Gaza Strip. “Australia’s position is the same as it was this morning, as it was last year,” Albanese told …

06-02-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s finance ministry has asked its employees to avoid using AI tools including ChatGPT and DeepSeek for official purposes, citing risks posed to confidentiality of government documents and data; an internal department advisory showed. Countries like Australia and Italy have placed similar restrictions on the …