04-06-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Trade negotiations between the United States and India are making progress and a deal could be finalized soon, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Monday, as both sides push to conclude talks ahead of a July deadline. “You should expect a deal between United …
Read More »Mongolia’s PM resigns over son’s lavish spending
04-06-2025 ULAANBAATAR: Mongolia’s Prime Minister (PM) has resigned after social media photos of his son’s lavish lifestyle sparked an anti-corruption investigation and weeks of mass protests. Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene, who has denied wrongdoing, lost a confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday. The viral photos purport to show Oyun-Erdene’s son and the …
Read More »New Madeleine McCann search under way in Portugal
04-06-2025 LISBON: Portuguese and German authorities have started a new search for Madeleine McCann in Portugal, nearly two decades after her disappearance. Madeleine was three years old when she vanished from an apartment complex in Praia da Luz in the Algarve during a family holiday on 3 May 2007. The …
Read More »Israeli fire kills dozens aid seekers in Gaza
04-06-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces have killed at least 27 Palestinians and injured 90 more as they opened fire close to an aid distribution site in Rafah, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. The latest killings came early on Tuesday at the Flag Roundabout, near an aid hub …
Read More »200 prisoners escape from Karachi’s Malir Jail
03-06-2025 By SJA Jafri KARACHI: At least 45 to 50 inmates have escaped from the Malir Jail in Karachi in what appears to be one of the most serious jailbreaks in recent years, according to Sindh’s Home Minister, Zia-ul-Hasan Lanjar. During the earthquake tremors that rocked Karachi on Monday, inmates …
Read More »Guatemala jails ex-paramilitaries for 40 years
03-06-2025 GUATEMALA CITY: A top Guatemalan court has sentenced three former paramilitaries to 40 years each in prison after they were found guilty of raping six Indigenous women between 1981 and 1983, one of the bloodiest periods of the Central American nation’s civil war. The conviction and sentencing on Friday …
Read More »China warns US not to ‘play with fire’ over Taiwan
03-06-2025 BEIJING: China has warned the United States against “playing with fire” over Taiwan in response to US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calling the Asian power a “threat to the region” at a high-profile summit in Singapore. Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue on Saturday, Hegseth said China was “credibly preparing” …
Read More »Divided Israel faces internal unrest amid escalating Gaza conflict
03-06-2025 JERUSALEM: As Israel’s devastating war on Gaza grinds on, pushed forward by a prime minister insistent that a goal of total military victory be met, the divisions within Israeli society are growing increasingly deeper. In the last few weeks, as Israeli peace activists and antiwar groups have stepped up …
Read More »‘Air India in talks for major new narrow-body jet order’
03-06-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Tata Group’s Air India is in talks with Airbus and Boeing for a major new aircraft order including some 200 extra single-aisle planes, topping up a mammoth deal in 2023 as the former state carrier pursues a multi-billion-dollar revamp, industry sources said. The order discussions, …
Read More »Gaza ministry says Israel kills more than 30 aid seekers
03-06-2025 KYIV/ MOSCOW: Ukraine says it completed its biggest long-range attack of the war with Russia on Sunday, after using smuggled drones to launch a series of major strikes on 40 Russian warplanes at four military bases. President Volodymyr Zelensky said 117 drones were used in the so-called “Spider’s Web” …
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