International

16-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling coalition is set to comfortably retain power in the poor and populous state of Bihar, a vote count showed on Friday, giving him a boost after a disappointing national vote last year. Winning Bihar is crucial because it is …

16-11-2025 BEIJING/ TOKYO: China has summoned the Japanese ambassador in Beijing over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments on Taiwan. China and Japan have been locked in an escalating war of words this week, set off by Takaichi’s suggestion that Japan could respond with its own self-defence force if China attacked …

16-11-2025 LONDON/ WASHINGTON: The BBC has apologized to US President Donald Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his 6 January 2021 speech together, but rejected his demands for compensation. The corporation said the edit had given “the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call …

16-11-2025 OTTAWA: Kristy Gammon used to travel to the US from Canada at least once every other year, taking ski trips at Lake Placid in New York and travelling to Baltimore, Maryland, for her husband’s favorite Orioles baseball games but those trips are now over, she said. This year, the …

16-11-2025 TUNIS: International NGOs Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have decried a sharp decline in civil liberties and a pervading “injustice” in Tunisia since President Kais Saied came to power in 2019, as authorities escalate their crackdown on the opposition, activists and foreign nongovernmental organizations. “Tunisian authorities have increasingly …

16-11-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA: The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has accused Israel of deliberately crippling its operations and blocking the entry of vital aid to Gaza amid its more than two-year genocidal war, as Palestinians face the onset of heavy rains and winter with sparse shelter or …

15-11-2025 WASHINGTON: House Democrats on Wednesday released emails that they said raised new questions about President Donald Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein and how much he knew about Epstein’s abuse of underage girls, while the swearing-in of a new Democrat kicked off a fresh fight in Congress over further disclosures. …

15-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s air force chief made the inaugural landing of a military transport aircraft at a new airbase capable of fighter jet operations close to the disputed Himalayan border with China, a defence official said on Thursday. The move comes amid a thaw in ties between …

15-11-2025 BEIJING: China’s securities watchdog chief, Wu Qing, has sought approval to step down, sources with knowledge of the matter said, in what would be an abrupt and unexpected exit for a regulatory head brought in last year to stabilize the country’s stock markets. Wu, who was appointed the chairman …

15-11-2025 DHAKA: When Sheikh Hasina was ousted as Bangladesh’s prime minister in August 2024 after a student-led uprising, many in the country believed the darkest days of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings were finally over. The interim administration, led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, who was sworn in …