03-05-2025 ISLAMABAD/ MUZAFFARABAD: The government of Pakistan-administered Kashmir has closed all religious seminaries in the region for 10 days, officials said yesterday, citing fears they would be targeted by Indian strikes following a deadly attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir. Islamabad says it has credible intelligence that India intends to …

03-05-2025 MUSCAT: A fourth round of Iran-US talks over Tehran’s nuclear program has been postponed. Iran said the two countries, along with facilitators Oman, had jointly decided to postpone Saturday’s meeting in Rome for “logistical and technical reasons”. The US said the timing of the talks had not been confirmed …

03-05-2025 GAZA STRIP: Fires that have ravaged large parts of central Israel since Wednesday have largely been extinguished, the country’s Fire and Rescue Authority says. More than 150 teams have been battling the blaze, which has scorched around 20 sq km (7.7 sq miles) of land in the Latrun area …

03-05-2025 LONDON/ BERLIN: In January a migrant boat was rescued off the North African coast after 14 harrowing days lost at sea. Some 50 people died on the voyage, many of whom were lied to by people smugglers promising safe and legal routes to Europe. BBC Verify has tracked one …

03-05-2025 NEW YORK: Tariffs on goods coming into the US will add nearly a billion dollars to Apple’s costs, the tech giant said, despite President Donald Trump’s decision to spare key electronics from the new import taxes. The estimate from the iPhone maker comes as firms are scrambling to respond …

03-05-2025 DAMASCUS: Deadly clashes between Islamist armed factions, security forces and fighters from the Druze religious minority near Damascus are another sign of the continuing fragility of the security situation in Syria after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. Outside players have once again been involved, with Israel saying it carried …

02-05-2025 HOUSTON: Detainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week; SOS. With a Reuters drone flying nearby, 31 men formed the letters in the dirt yard of the facility on Monday. Ten days earlier, dozens of …

02-05-2025 SANA’S/ LONDON: British fighter jets joined their US counterparts in airstrikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels overnight, the first military action authorized by the Labour government and the first UK participation in an aggressive American bombing campaign against the group. RAF Typhoons, refuelled by Voyager air tankers, targeted a cluster …

02-05-2025 DAMASCUS: At least 16 civilians and security officials have been killed in clashes in a town near Damascus, Syria’s interior ministry reported, the second consecutive day of fighting in Druze-majority areas around Syria’s capital. Reports on Wednesday said fighting had started overnight in the town of Ashrafiah Sahnaya, south-west …

02-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The summer conditions south Asian countries dread each year have arrived alarmingly early, and it’s only April. Much of India and Pakistan is already sweltering in heatwave conditions, in what scientists say is fast becoming the “new normal”. Temperatures in the region typically climb …