International

27-07-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s biggest paints maker, Asian Paints, opens new tab, is seeking to quash an antitrust inquiry, arguing that officials damaged its reputation by publishing and then deleting, allegations against its CEO from the investigation order, legal papers show. Rapid infrastructure and real estate …

27-07-2025 LONDON/ WASHINGTON/ VICTORIA: The United Kingdom and the United States have condemned Hong Kong authorities for offering payment in exchange for assisting in the arrest of pro-democracy activists living in the UK and the US, even as the British government begins the process of reinstating an extradition deal with …

27-07-2025 KUALA LUMPUR: Thousands of Malaysians have taken to the streets to protest rising living costs and a perceived lack of reform by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government. Saturday’s rally, organized by opposition parties, marked the first major protest in Southeast Asia’s sixth largest economy since Anwar was propelled …

27-07-2025 DAHIYEH/ BEIRUT: Fatima Kandeel, 43, and her two sons moved into a new rented apartment in the southern suburbs of Beirut in March. They had been staying with her sister Aida nearby for four months after a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon had stopped the worst, but not all, …

27-07-2025 ODDAR MEANCHEY: Explosions reverberated in the distance along the Thai-Cambodia border, as a Cambodian soldier waited his turn for surgery to remove shrapnel embedded in his body from a Thai artillery shell. The soldier said he was injured in fighting with Thai troops on Friday near the ancient Ta …

26-07-2025 KABUL: Since returning to power, the Taliban has made spreading its ideology a key priority. From prisons and rehab facilities to military bases, “religious education” is becoming a cornerstone of Afghanistan’s institutions. By introducing courses in Quranic recitation and exegesis, as well as broader religious instruction, the group aims …

26-07-2025 LONDON: Britons have been urged to avoid all but essential travel to parts of Cambodia and Thailand following escalating conflict in the area. The British foreign ministry has advised Brits to avoid the region, which is experiencing the worst fighting between the countries in 13 years. Thailand scrambled an …

26-07-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s financial crime-fighting agency searched 35 locations linked to Reliance Anil Ambani Group as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering and siphoning of public funds, a government source said on Thursday. The Enforcement Directorate alleges the group orchestrated a “well-planned” scheme to siphon …

26-07-2025 ISTANBUL/ TEHRAN: Iran on Thursday reaffirmed its right to enrich uranium, saying it was “unshakable”, on the eve of key talks with European powers threatening to re-impose nuclear sanctions. Friday’s meeting, set to take place in Istanbul, will be the first since Israel’s mid-June attack targeting key nuclear and …

26-07-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA STRIP: One in five children in Gaza City is malnourished and cases are increasing every day, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) says. In a statement issued on Thursday, Unrwa Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini cited a colleague telling him: “People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, …