16-05-2026 MANILA: The Philippine Senate was locked down with military personnel seen entering the building where a senator wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) had sought refuge. Rounds of gunfire were heard but officials have not revealed who fired the shots. They said there were no casualties. Senator Ronald …
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16-05-2026 MOSCOW: Russia has placed British former Defence Minister Ben Wallace on a wanted list in connection with an unspecified criminal investigation, according to the Russian Interior Ministry’s database cited by state media. State-run news agency TASS quoted an unnamed source in law enforcement as saying that the investigation was …
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16-05-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ RANN OF KUTCH: India faces brutal heatwaves each year, but few places are as punishing as the salt pans of the western state of Gujarat, where tens of thousands of workers endure near-unlivable conditions to keep the industry running. Up to 50,000 seasonal workers migrate …
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16-05-2026 WASHINGTON: Optimism surrounding another set of peace proposals aimed at shaping a deal between Iran and the United States quickly faded this week as the two sides appeared to instead pull further apart, digging in and insisting that the other compromise for negotiations to resume. US President Donald Trump …
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15-05-2026 NEW DELHI: Tehran has “no trust” in the US and is interested in negotiating with Washington only if it is serious, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday, as talks on ending the war remained on hold. All vessels can pass through the Strait of Hormuz except those …
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15-05-2026 BEIJING: US President Donald Trump left Beijing after a two-day summit saying he had struck “fantastic trade deals, great for both countries”, but few details have emerged on what the two superpowers agreed. Trump arrived for a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday, accompanied by several …
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15-05-2026 WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has released a new price tag for the US-Israel war with Iran, saying it has cost the United States $29bn. The department’s comptroller revealed the new total during a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday alongside Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth. The estimate is an increase from the …
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15-05-2026 SYDNEY: The Indigenous traditional owners of land in north-western Australia have been awarded a record AU$150.1 million ($108.3m; £79.9m) payout after a court ruled one of the country’s most well-known billionaires mined their land without permission. The verdict amounts to the biggest native title payout ever awarded in Australia …
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15-05-2026 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KARACHI/ KABUL: On a rainy, cold morning Masooda makes her way to a hillside cemetery in north-west Kabul to visit the grave of her younger brother Mirwais but she doesn’t know exactly where he was buried after he was killed in a Pakistani airstrike …
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15-05-2026 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has said the month-long ceasefire between the US and Iran is on “massive life support”. He told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that while the ceasefire remained in place, it was “unbelievably weak”. Following Trump’s comments, Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf wrote …
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