International

12-06-2025 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: The US and China say they have agreed in principle to a framework for de-escalating trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the deal should result in restrictions on rare earth minerals and magnets being resolved. Both sides said they …

12-06-2025 LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles (LA) Mayor Karen Bass has announced a partial curfew for Los Angeles to tackle the protests against immigration raids. US President Donald Trump says the protests are an “assault on peace and public order”. He has doubled down on deploying more National Guard troops and …

11-06-2025 UNITED NATIONS: Namrata Nangia and her husband have been toying with the idea of having another child since their five-year-old daughter was born but it always comes back to one question; ‘can we afford it?’ She lives in Mumbai and works in pharmaceuticals, her husband works at a tyre …

11-06-2025 LOS ANGELES: US President Donald Trump’s administration has sent thousands more troops to Los Angeles (LA) on a fourth day of chaotic protests against immigration raids, as the unrest spread to other US cities. Some 700 US Marines have been deployed to the LA area and the contingent of …

11-06-2025 NEW DELHI/ GUWAHATI: India has started to push people it considers illegal immigrants into neighboring Bangladesh but human rights activists say authorities are arbitrarily throwing people out of the country. Since May, the northeastern Indian state of Assam has “pushed back” 303 people into Bangladesh out of 30,000 declared …

11-06-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ JERUSALEM: Israel has committed the crime against humanity of “extermination” by attacking Palestinian civilians sheltering in schools and religious sites in Gaza, an independent United Nations commission report says. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, made …

11-06-2025 TOKYO: Two Chinese aircraft carriers have been seen operating in the Pacific at once for the first time, Japan’s Ministry of Defence has said. China’s Shandong and four other vessels on Monday sailed within Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. The aircraft carrier conducted …

11-06-2025 KYIV: Russian President Vladimir Putin faces criminal charges for the “unlawful deportation and transfer of children”. That is the definition of the 2023 arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court, the intergovernmental tribunal based in The Hague. On June 2, as ceasefire talks rumbled on, Ukrainian diplomats handed their …

11-06-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MEERUT: The last of the paint had begun to peel off Mohammad Mohsin’s house two years ago. The faded green, white and yellow paints on the walls still bore stains from last year’s monsoons. A narrow, 3-foot-tall (0.9 metres) passage only possible to enter by …

10-06-2025 VIENNA: Nine people have been killed in a shooting at a secondary school in the Austrian city of Graz, the local mayor says. Seven students, an adult and the suspected gunman are among the dead, Graz Mayor Elke Kahr tells media. The shooting happened at the Dreierschutzengasse high school …