International

01-10-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump will push Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the framework of a new peace plan to end the Israel-Gaza war during White House discussions on Monday. Trump has talked up prospects of reaching an agreement, telling journalists on Friday; “I think we have …

30-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Social media platform X said on Monday that it was “deeply concerned” by an Indian court’s ruling that quashed its challenge to New Delhi’s content removal mechanisms and would appeal it to defend freedom of expression in the country. Elon Musk-owned X has locked horns …

30-09-2025 GAZA STRIP: At least 50 Palestinians, including five aid seekers, have been killed and 184 injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet US President Donald Trump in the …

30-09-2025 BERN: Voting is taking place in Switzerland to decide whether to introduce electronic identity cards. It is the second nationwide ballot on the issue, after voters rejected the idea in 2021 over concerns about data protection and unease that the proposed system would largely be run by private companies. …

30-09-2025 GAZA STRIP: More than 35 people have been killed in Israeli strikes and gunfire since the early hours of Saturday morning, hospital sources in Gaza say. A strike on a house in central Gaza left at least 11 people dead more than half of them women and children, according …

30-09-2025 BRUSSELS/ LONDON: Sweeping UN economic and military sanctions have been reimposed on Iran, 10 years after they were lifted in a landmark international deal over its nuclear program. The new measures took effect as the three European partners to the deal, the UK, France and Germany, activated the so-called …

30-09-2025 KYIV: A Russian aerial bombardment that lasted more than 12 hours has killed at least four people and injured at least 70 others in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the deaths all occurred in the capital, Kyiv, where many of the projectiles were aimed, and the victims included a …

30-09-2025 HANOI: Vietnam has mobilized some 100,000 military personnel to help 250,000 people evacuate as intensifying Typhoon Bualoi barrels towards the country, forcing the government to shut down several airports. Bualoi, the 10th typhoon to affect Vietnam this year, is currently at sea, generating winds of 130km/h (80mph) and is …

29-09-2025 KATHMANDU/ NEW DELHI: At least 33 of the demonstrators killed during anti-corruption protests in Nepal this month were struck by “live bullets” fired from “high-velocity firearms,” the medical institute that conducted the postmortem examinations told Reuters. The findings were described to media by a member of the forensic medicine …

29-09-2025 WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court sided again on Friday with Donald Trump, allowing his administration to withhold about $4 billion in foreign aid authorized by Congress for the current fiscal year as the Republican president pursues his “America First” agenda. The case raises questions involving the degree to which …