International

16-05-2025 WASHINGTON: A federal judge has ordered Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri released from immigration detention, in the latest victory for US visa holders targeted by the administration of President Donald Trump for pro-Palestine stances or advocacy. The ruling on Wednesday by US District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles comes …

16-05-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 84 people, medical sources told media, as indirect ceasefire talks continue in Qatar. At least 50 people were killed in Israeli attacks on northern Gaza, including in Jabalia refugee camp, since the early hours of Wednesday, according to medical …

16-05-2025 DOHA/ DAMASCUS: President Trump was greeted with more pomp and ceremony as he arrived in Qatar on the second stop of his Middle East tour after departing Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. The White House said that Trump and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani signed agreements that …

15-05-2025 CAIRO: Israeli military strikes killed at least 70 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities said, in an intensification of the bombardment as US President Donald Trump visits the Middle East. Medics said most of the dead, including women and children, were killed in a barrage …

15-05-2025 VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo XIV, the first American to head the global Catholic Church, pledged on Wednesday to make “every effort” for peace and offered the Vatican as a mediator in global conflicts, saying war was “never inevitable”. Leo, who was elected last week to succeed the late Pope …

15-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India said on Wednesday that it rejects China’s move to rename places in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh where the Asian neighbors share a border, adding that the Himalayan territory was an integral part of India. Beijing has renamed places in Arunachal Pradesh in …

15-05-2025 PRETORIA: President Cyril Ramaphosa has called a group of 59 white South Africans who have moved to the US to resettle “cowards”, saying “they’ll be back soon”. The group of Afrikaners arrived in the US on Monday after President Donald Trump granted them refugee status, saying they faced racial …

15-05-2025 LIMA: The prime minister of Peru, Gustavo Adrianzen, has resigned hours before he was due to face a no-confidence vote in Congress. Members of Peru’s Congress had called for the no-confidence vote after the recent kidnap and killing of 13 mine workers, which shocked the country. Adrianzen’s resignation is …

15-05-2025 WARSAW: Svitlana says her daughter loved her school in Poland. “Even when we moved to another area, she didn’t want to change schools”, says the 31-year-old Ukrainian mother. “She liked it so much. There was no bullying.” Now she says the atmosphere at the school and in Poland overall …

15-05-2025 GAZA/ JABALIA: Over 50 more Palestinians have been killed in a series of Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza overnight, a local hospital says. The Indonesian hospital reported that 32 children and 25 women were among the dead after a number of homes in Jabalia town and refugee camp …