04-08-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India will keep purchasing oil from Russia despite US President Donald Trump’s threats of penalties, two Indian government sources told media, not wishing to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter. On top of a new 25% tariff on India’s exports to the …
Read More »Israeli forces kill 62 Palestinians in Gaza in 20 hours
04-08-2025 GAZA STRIP: Sixty-two Palestinians, most of them aid seekers, have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since dawn on Saturday, hospital sources in the besieged enclave have told media. The death toll includes 38 Palestinians seeking aid at distribution sites operated by the controversial United States and Israel-backed …
Read More »Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave
04-08-2025 MADRID/ OSLO: Cold Nordic countries are being seared by “truly unprecedented” heat, as hot weather strengthened and lengthened by carbon pollution continues to roast northern Europe. A weather station in the Norwegian part of the Arctic Circle recorded temperatures above 30C (86F) on 13 days in July, while Finland …
Read More »Forced pregnancy & sexual torture in Tigray
04-08-2025 Warning: this news contains graphic and distressing testimony and images ADDIS ABABA/ MEKELLE: Hundreds of health workers across Tigray have documented mass rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy and sexual torture of women and children by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, in systematic attacks that amount to crimes against humanity, a …
Read More »Prominent Indian ex-MP gets life sentence for rape
04-08-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A court in southern India has sentenced a prominent politician in the state of Karnataka to life in prison after being found guilty of raping one of his domestic staff. The sentencing of Prajwal Revanna, who is from an influential political family in the state, …
Read More »Pope greeted by vast crowd at Catholic youth event
04-08-2025 VATICAN CITY: Hundreds of thousands of young faithful feted Pope Leo XIV like a rock star on Saturday at an open-air prayer vigil outside Rome, after the head of the Catholic Church made a dramatic entrance by helicopter. Pilgrims began crying and cheering when the white military helicopter descended …
Read More »Hamas refuses to disarm until Palestinian state established
04-08-2025 GAZA/ CAIRO: Hamas has reaffirmed that it will not agree to disarm unless a sovereign Palestinian state is established, in response to one of Israel’s key demands in talks about a ceasefire in Gaza. The Palestinian armed group said it was responding to remarks it attributed to US President …
Read More »France starts airdrops of humanitarian aid into Gaza
03-08-2025 PARIS/ GAZA STRIP: France on Friday started to air-drop 40 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Gaza as it urged Israel to allow full access to the area which it said was slipping into famine. “Faced with the absolute urgency, we have just conducted a food airdrop operation in Gaza. …
Read More »Syria forms committee to investigate Sweida violence
03-08-2025 DAMASCUS/ BEIRUT: Syria has pledged to investigate clashes in the southern province of Sweida which killed hundreds of people last month, the second major episode of sectarian violence since the ouster of longtime Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. In a decree dated July 31, justice minister Muzher al-Wais said a …
Read More »‘India engaged in further trade talks with US’
03-08-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India is engaged in trade talks with the United States, an Indian government source with knowledge of the discussions said on Friday, a day after US President Donald Trump signed an order imposing a 25% tariff on New Delhi’s exports. Trump set steep import duties …
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