International

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 …

14-05-2025 KYIV/ MOSCOW: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will attend talks on Ukraine this week only if Russia’s Vladimir Putin is also there, an aide to the Ukrainian leader said on Tuesday, challenging the Kremlin to show it is genuine about seeking peace. US President Donald Trump’s senior envoys, Steve Witkoff and …

14-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s retail inflation remained below the central bank’s 4% target for the third consecutive month as food prices rose at a slower pace, opening up room for more interest rate cuts to support growth in the world’s fifth-largest economy. Annual retail inflation, opens new tab …

14-05-2025 DULLES: A group of about 50 White South Africans landed at Dulles International Airport on Monday as refugees, coming to the United States under a humanitarian designation meant for people fleeing war or persecution that the Trump administration has suspended for all other groups worldwide. President Donald Trump has …

14-05-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Guns have fallen silent for now along the tense India-Pakistan frontier, after a ceasefire that appears to have held for three nights. On May 7, India launched predawn attacks on what it called multiple “terror sites” across Pakistan to avenge the April …

14-05-2025 RIYADH: US President Donald Trump has received a royal welcome after arriving in Saudi Arabia, his first stop of a three-day tour that will also see him visit Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. “We like each other a lot,” Trump says during talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin …

14-05-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Israel’s army has admitted to carrying out “a targeted attack” on the Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing two people, including Palestinian journalist Hassan Eslaih. Gaza’s Government Media Office on Tuesday confirmed the killing of Eslaih, who was receiving treatment …

14-05-2025 LONDON: The United Kingdom’s government faces a High Court challenge over the export of F-35 jet components used by Israel. Co-claimants Al-Haq, a Palestinian rights organization, and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) are behind the case. “We’re going to court to try to force the government to stop …

13-05-2025 RIYADH/ DOHA/ DUBAI: The US president is due in Saudi Arabia on the first leg of a three-day tour, which will also take him to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. It marks Trump’s second foreign visit as president after he attended Pope Francis’s funeral in Rome in April. …