International

08-10-2025 AMSTERDAM: Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through Amsterdam on Sunday, calling for the Dutch government to take a tougher stance against Israel’s war in Gaza. Organizers estimated that around 250,000 people joined the demonstration, a figure supported by local police. Most wore red to signal their support for …

08-10-2025 JAKARTA: The number of students confirmed dead after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school building in Indonesia rose to 36, from 16 a day earlier, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said on Sunday. Efforts continued for a seventh day to search for the bodies of 27 students still …

08-10-2025 BLANTYRE: Malawi’s Peter Mutharika vowed to root out government corruption and rebuild an ailing economy after he was sworn in on Saturday for a second term as president of the southern African nation. Mutharika, 85, secured more than 56% of votes last month, defeating outgoing president Lazarus Chakwera, 70, …

08-10-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s move to allow export of de-oiled rice bran effective Oct. 3 is aimed at stabilizing local DORB prices and boosting Indian exports, traders and millers told media. The Ministry of Commerce & Industry announced the policy in an Oct. 3 notice, which said exports …

08-10-2025 LONDON: Police in the United Kingdom are investigating a suspected arson attack on a mosque in southern England as a “hate crime” as a spate of violent crime against religious sites is reported. Officers were called to the site of an arson attack on Phyllis Avenue in Peacehaven, East …

08-10-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: International activists deported from Israel after joining an intercepted Gaza aid flotilla have given further accounts of mistreatment by guards during their detention. The latest claims made by participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla added to the growing scrutiny of Israel on Sunday for its treatment …

07-10-2025 BEIJING/ MOSCOW/ KYIV: China is providing intelligence to Russia to enable Moscow to better launch missile strikes inside Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian intelligence official has said. Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Agency official Oleh Alexandrov told the state news agency Ukrinform that China was passing on satellite intelligence on targets, including …

07-10-2025 LONDON: British police will be given powers to restrict repeat protests in the same place, the government said on Sunday after a latest pro-Palestinian demonstration went ahead despite requests to cancel it in the wake of a deadly attack at a synagogue. The new powers will allow senior police …

07-10-2025 VATICAN CITY/ ROME: Pope Leo hopes that a plan to end the war in Gaza would soon reach the “desired results”, he said on Sunday after acknowledging the significant steps made in negotiations to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Speaking during his weekly Angelus prayer, the pontiff …

07-10-2025 NEW DELHI: Hundreds of AI-generated Bollywood videos with 16 million views have been deleted from Google’s YouTube after Reuters reported they were similar to those at the centre of a legal challenge filed by a celebrity couple to protect their rights. Bollywood stars Abhishek Bachchan and his wife Aishwarya …