International

07-02-2026 WASHINGTON: The United States House of Representatives has approved a $1.2 trillion spending package to end a partial government shutdown. The bipartisan legislation, passed on Tuesday, restores lapsed funding for key federal programs, including those within the Departments of Labor and Education. The bill passed with 217 voting for …

06-02-2026 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: The death toll from a massive bombing that tore through a Shiite Mosque & Imambargah Khadija-tu-Kubra on the outskirts of Islamabad during Friday prayers has risen to 36, a Pakistani official said. Nearly 173 people were injured, government officials and rescue …

06-02-2026 MADRID: Spain has become the latest European country to make plans to ban social media for children under the age of 16. “We will protect them from the digital Wild West,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said at the World Governments Summit in Dubai on Tuesday. The ban, which still …

06-02-2026 DAMASCUS: Syrian forces have entered the northeastern city of Qamishli and taken control of key security sites, Syria’s state news agency is reporting, as part of a ceasefire deal with Kurdish-led forces. Citing the Syrian Interior Ministry, the SANA news agency reported on Tuesday that units began entering the …

06-02-2026 TRIPOLI: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libya’s late longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi, was killed on Tuesday by a “four-man commando” in his home in western Libya’s Zintan, his French lawyer, Marcel Ceccaldi, told media. “For now, we don’t know” who was behind the killing, Ceccaldi said, adding that …

06-02-2026 LONDON: Police in the United Kingdom have launched an investigation into allegations that political veteran Peter Mandelson committed misconduct in public office in his dealings with the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Metropolitan Police made the announcement on Tuesday, hours after Mandelson, London’s former ambassador to the …

06-02-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: United States President Donald Trump has announced what he described as a “trade deal” with India to reduce market barriers between the two countries, which have a combined gross domestic product of $33 trillion. On Monday, Trump said he would reduce trade tariffs on Indian …

06-02-2026 WASHINGTON: The United States military says it shot down an Iranian drone that approached a US aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, amid continued efforts by regional powers to ease tensions between Washington and Tehran. In a statement on Tuesday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) spokesperson Tim Hawkins said a …

06-02-2026 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump has agreed to slash US tariffs on Indian goods to 18 percent from 50 percent in exchange for India lowering trade barriers as well as stopping its purchases of Russian oil and buying oil instead from the US and potentially Venezuela. “Out of …

05-02-2026 HOUSTON: Democrats in the United States are rejoicing over a Texas State Senate special election victory they say reflects growing discontent with President Donald Trump’s policies, months before the US midterm elections. Some commentators are describing the Democratic upset win in Texas as a “political earthquake” but Trump has …