International

06-09-2025 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump is to rebrand the US Department of Defense as the “Department of War”, according to the White House. The president will today sign an executive order allowing it to be used as a secondary title for the US government’s biggest organization It also means defence secretary …

06-09-2025 KABUL: A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Afghanistan’s remote south-eastern region on Thursday night, the third quake in six days, as the death toll from the first continued to rise. The shallow quake hit at 20:56 local time (15:36 GMT) and sent people in Nangarhar and Kunar provinces scampering out …

06-09-2025 BRAZZAVILLE: Dozens people have died in a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s health ministry has said. The presence of the virus had been confirmed in a 34-year-old pregnant woman who was admitted to hospital last month after showing symptoms that …

06-09-2025 MOSCOW/ PARIS: The Kremlin has rejected any situation where foreign troops would be stationed in Ukraine to provide security guarantees, according to Russian state media. It follows a pledge by Emmanuel Macron that 26 Western allies had formally committed to deploying troops “by land, sea or air” to Ukraine …

05-09-2025 KHARTOUM: When journalist Shamael Elnoor left Sudan at the outbreak of war in 2023, Sudanese newspapers were already suffering under an economic crisis and the worldwide shift to digital news. Then the fighting brought presses to an immediate standstill, leaving busy newsrooms in Khartoum empty and ransacked. “Since the …

05-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s overhaul of consumer tax stands to make everything from soaps to luxury SUVs cheaper but global fashion brands such as Zara, Levi Strauss, opens new tab and Lacoste have been spooked by higher levies on all apparel priced at more than $29. The premium …

05-09-2025 PYONGYANG/ SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would “fully support” Russia’s army as a “fraternal duty”, and Russian President Vladimir Putin called the two countries’ ties “special”, state media KCNA reported on Thursday. Kim and Putin held a meeting on Wednesday on the sidelines of …

05-09-2025 KATHMANDU: Nepal’s government has said it will shut off access to major social media platforms, including Facebook and X, after they failed to comply with authorities’ registration requirements. The move, announced on Thursday, is part of what the government says is an effort to curb online hate, rumors and …

05-09-2025 SAN FRANCISCO: Google has been told by a US jury to pay $425m for violating the privacy of tens of millions of users who opted out of a feature tracking app use. The jury in San Francisco handed down the verdict on Wednesday after a group of Google users …

05-09-2025 PARIS: Western leaders have held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris over the prospect of providing security guarantees in the event of a peace deal with Russia. The summit in Paris on Thursday brings together leaders from Europe, Australia, Japan and Canada, as well as Zelenskyy and …