International

27-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s solar module exports fell sharply in September to their lowest this year after US trade measures curbed shipments, forcing manufacturers to redirect supplies to the domestic market, industry officials and analysts said. India’s exports to the United States had surged earlier this year as …

27-11-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump has ordered his aides to start a process to label the branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan as “terrorist” organizations, citing their alleged support for the Palestinian group Hamas. Trump issued the decree on Monday as Washington intensified its …

27-11-2025 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ PESHAWAR: At least three security personnel have been killed when a suicide bomber and gunmen attacked the Federal Constabulary (FC) headquarters in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar. “Three FC personnel deployed at the gate were martyred and four others were wounded,” said Peshawar Capital City …

27-11-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping held a wide-ranging phone call on issues like Taiwan and trade, as relations appeared to gather new momentum since the pair’s meeting in South Korea last month. Hours after the call on Monday, the US president hailed the two …

26-11-2025 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel’s military has killed a senior member of the militant group Hezbollah in an air strike on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, despite a ceasefire. It described Haitham Ali al-Tabtabai, Hezbollah’s chief of staff, as a veteran of the group who had held a …

26-11-2025 BEIJING: China called Japan’s plan to deploy missiles on an island near Taiwan a deliberate attempt to “create regional tension and provoke military confrontation” on Monday, as a diplomatic dispute simmers between the two nations. The remarks come amid their worst diplomatic crisis in years, after Japanese Prime Minister …

26-11-2025 WASHINGTON: Kateryna Golizdra has survived six months in legal limbo, so far. She thinks she can hold out another six months, waiting for Donald Trump’s administration to decide the fate of a humanitarian program that allowed some 260,000 people who fled the war in Ukraine to live and work …

26-11-2025 Machu Picchu, the remains of a 15th Century Inca city, is Peru’s most popular tourist destination and a Unesco world heritage site. Yet a continuing dispute over the buses that take visitors up to the mountain-top site recently saw some 1,400 stranded tourists needing to be evacuated. Cristian Alberto …

26-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court has agreed to drop criminal charges against billionaire brothers Nitin and Chetan Sandesara if they pay a third of their dues in a $1.6-billion bank fraud, a step that could prompt other offenders to seek similar settlements. After being accused of defaulting …

26-11-2025 HANOI/ BANGKOK: Heavy rains continue to cause widespread flooding and landslides across Southeast Asia and have claimed several more lives as authorities mobilize to try to help. One person was confirmed to have been killed in Vietnam on Monday, bringing the death toll in the country to 91 people …