05-12-2025 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, who has cast himself as a relentless foe of illegal drugs, pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, freeing him from a 45-year sentence for conspiring to import tons of cocaine into the United States. Trump’s extraordinary move risks weakening U.S. credibility in Latin America, …
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05-12-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s imports of Russian oil may decline for only “a brief period” as Moscow plans to boost supplies, using sophisticated technology to avert the impact of Western sanctions, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. His remarks came ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s …
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05-12-2025 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said an agreement with Syria is achievable, outlining expectations that Syrian authorities establish a demilitarized buffer zone stretching from Damascus to Jabal al-Sheikh, which Israel currently occupies. Netanyahu’s comments on Tuesday came a day after US President Donald Trump said he wanted …
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05-12-2025 MOSCOW: “No compromise” was reached on the crucial issue of control of Ukrainian territory to end Moscow’s war, a Russian official has said, after talks between senior US officials and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner met …
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04-12-2025 TOKYO: It is not, perhaps, a word many people in Japan will want to hear as they prepare for the bonenkai office party season and some well-earned time off over the new year but the promise made by Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, that she would “work, work, …
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04-12-2025 WASHINGTON: Progressive United States Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has hit back against Donald Trump after the president criticized her and renewed his attacks on the Somali community in Minnesota. During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Trump embarked on a racist tirade, describing Omar and other Somali immigrants as “garbage” and …
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04-12-2025 BEIRUT: Pope Leo bade farewell to Lebanon on Tuesday with a fervent appeal to leaders across the Middle East to listen to their people’s cries for peace and to change course away from the “horror of war”. The first US pope wrapped up his first overseas trip as Catholic …
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04-12-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Apple, opens new tab does not plan to comply with a mandate to preload its smartphones with a state-owned cyber safety app and will convey its concerns to New Delhi, three sources said, after the government’s move sparked surveillance concerns and a political uproar. The …
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04-12-2025 United States President Donald Trump has lashed out as Honduras announced that it is to conduct a manual count of votes cast in the November 30 presidential election. The National Electoral Council (CNE) called for “patience” on Tuesday as it launched the count. Earlier, it had announced that a …
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04-12-2025 KHARTOUM: The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has refuted a claim by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that it has seized control of the West Kordofan town of Babnusa. Sudan’s military government said in a statement issued on Tuesday that it had repelled an attack by the RSF. The …
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