International

14-02-2025 WASHINGTON/ MOSCOW: US President Donald Trump has said he had a “lengthy and highly productive” phone call with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in which the leaders agreed to begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he and the …

14-02-2025 SYDNEY: Two Australian nurses have been suspended after a video appeared to show them threatening to kill Israeli patients and boasting about refusing to treat them. The man and woman both employees at a Sydney hospital are now being investigated by police, officials in New South Wales (NSW) said. …

13-02-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ DKAKA: Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government tried to cling on to power using systematic, deadly violence against protesters that could amount to “crimes against humanity”, the UN has said. UN human rights investigators accused the deposed government of a brutal response to mass …

13-02-2025 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump on Tuesday pressed Jordan’s King Abdullah to take in Palestinians who would be permanently displaced under the president’s plan for the US to take over the Gaza Strip, even as the king said his country was firmly opposed to the move. Speaking alongside the Arab country’s …

13-02-2025 WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: Indian stocks have lost about $180 billion in market value in the two days since US President Donald Trump said he would slap reciprocal tariffs on several countries, with many analysts saying the world’s fifth-largest economy could be worst hit. The blue-chip NSE Nifty 50, opens …

13-02-2025 SANA’A: Yemen’s Houthis have announced they are ready to attack Israel if it reneges on its ceasefire deal with Hamas and resumes its assault on Gaza. Leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi said in a televised speech on Tuesday that the group was “ready to launch a military intervention at any time …

13-02-2025 The M23 rebels have resumed attacks on armed forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a two-day lull in fighting. Rebel fighters struck at dawn on Tuesday near the village of Ihusi, located 40km (25 miles) from a strategic military airport in Kavumu and about 70km (43 miles) …

13-02-2025 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatens to resume “intense fighting” in Gaza if Hamas fails to release captives held there by noon on Saturday. US President Donald Trump tells reporters “we’re going to take” Gaza and urges Jordan’s King Abdullah to allocate land for forcibly displaced Palestinians. Abdullah …

13-02-2025 ROME:  launched a series of raids targeting Mafia clans operating in and around the Sicilian capital Palermo. More than 1,200 officers were involved in the operation, which the military Carabinieri force said was aimed at “dismantling” the area’s Mafia. The raids, the biggest for several years, were seen as …

13-02-2025 BEIJING: Public anger in China over concerns raised by doctors that generic drugs used in public hospitals are increasingly ineffective has led to a rare response from the government. Doctors say they believe the country’s drug procurement system, which incentivizes the use of cheap generic drugs over original brand-name …