International

10-10-2025 JERUSALEM: The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) says the Israeli military attacked its convoy of boats and intercepted several vessels as they were sailing towards Gaza. The FFC said the military had attacked The Conscience, a boat carrying 93 journalists, doctors and activists before it attacked and intercepted three smaller …

09-10-2025 CAIRO: Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a peace plan, paving the way for a possible end to the conflict in Gaza. Under the plan, Hamas will release the 20 living hostages it is still holding, while Israel will withdraw its troops to an agreed …

09-10-2025 PARIS: Emmanuel Macron should name a Prime Minister to push through a budget and then call early presidential elections to solve France’s political crisis, his first prime minister has said. Edouard Philippe’s comments come after France’s third prime minister in a year, Sebastien Lecornu, resigned on Monday after his …

09-10-2025 TIRANA: A judge in Albania has been shot dead after a man opened fire during a trial at the Court of Appeal in the capital Tirana. Judge Astrit Kalaja died en route to hospital, officials said, while two others involved in the hearing over a property dispute, a father …

09-10-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Sidhi Sharma wanted to marry an Indian citizen with a high-flying job in the United States but the 19-year-old medical student from India’s northern Haryana state dropped the idea after seeing recent headlines about US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, opens new tab. “I …

09-10-2025 JAKARTA: Indonesia has halted the search for bodies at a collapsed Islamic boarding school after retrieving more than 60, officials said. The National Search and Rescue Agency announced on Tuesday that the teams were stepping down after more than a week of efforts to recover victims trapped beneath the …

09-10-2025 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: The International Energy Agency (IEA) has scaled back its forecast for renewable power growth to 2030, citing weaker outlooks in the United States and China. The Paris-based agency now projects total renewable capacity will reach 4,600 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, down from 5,500GW in last year’s forecast, …

09-10-2025 NAYPYIDAW: A group of civil society organizations in Myanmar plans to take legal action against Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor, accusing it of passing customer data to the country’s military government for use in repression. The activists sent Telenor a notice of intent to sue on Monday, according to a …

09-10-2025 GAZA STRIP: Deadly Israeli attacks have continued across the Gaza Strip as the war reaches its two-year mark. Officials from Israel and Hamas, as well as the mediators, meet in Egypt to discuss US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war. At least 104 people have been killed …

08-10-2025 TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign minister has declared that cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog is “no longer relevant” after Western countries reinstated international sanctions on the country. “The Cairo agreement is no longer relevant for our cooperation with the IAEA,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday, referring to …