International

27-04-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Comments shared by United States President Donald Trump referring to India as a “hellhole” were “in poor taste” and at odds with the countries’ relationship, an Indian official has said. Trump did not make the remark himself, but reposted it without comment on his Truth …

27-04-2026 MOSCOW/ KYIV: Ukraine has succeeded in depriving Russia of much of the windfall profits it would have made from oil exports during March and April, as the war in the Gulf sent prices soaring to above $100 a barrel, a series of sources suggest. Ukraine intensified a long-range strike …

27-04-2026 DAMASCUS: A key suspect in one of the most notorious killings of the Syrian civil war has been arrested, Syria’s interior minister has said. Amjad Youssef was wanted over the mass killing of civilians in April 2013 in the Tadamon district of Damascus. Footage emerged in 2022 showing Syrian …

27-04-2026 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has undergone successful treatment for early-stage prostate cancer, after a small tumor was discovered during a routine checkup. The information was published on Friday in Netanyahu’s annual medical report, with the Israeli leader posting on social media to explain that doctors …

26-04-2026 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump has been evacuated from the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington, DC, after shots were fired outside the event. Trump was rushed offstage at the Washington Hilton hotel on Saturday evening after gunfire broke out outside the ballroom where the annual media gala …

26-04-2026 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has said next week’s state visit from King Charles and Queen Camilla could help repair relations with the UK. When asked in a phone interview whether the visit could help repair the relationship, Trump said: “Absolutely. He’s fantastic. He’s a fantastic man. Absolutely the …

26-04-2026 DODOMA: A total of 518 people died in Tanzania from “unnatural causes” including 197 who were shot dead, in the widespread protests that followed last year’s general election, the commission of inquiry set up to investigate the violence has announced. However, commission chairman Mohamed Chande Othman did not say …

26-04-2026 WASHINGTON: The White House on Thursday accused China of stealing US artificial intelligence labs’ intellectual property on an industrial scale in a memo that threatens ‌to strain relations ahead of a summit between US and Chinese leaders next month. “The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally …

26-04-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: The US Commerce Department on Thursday announced preliminary antidumping duties on solar cells and panels imported from India, Indonesia and Laos, the latest in a string of tariffs imposed ‌over a decade on solar imports from Asia. With the decision, federal trade officials sided …

26-04-2026 NEW YORK: Meta is laying off about 8,000 workers, or about 10 percent of its workforce, the company has said as it continues to ramp up spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure and highly paid AI-expert hires. On Thursday, the company said it was making the cuts for the sake …