International

15-04-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s exports of cut and polished diamonds plummeted to their lowest level in nearly two decades in the 2024/25 fiscal year, which ended in March, on sluggish demand from the United States and China, a leading trade body said on Monday. India …

15-04-2025 TEHRAN/ MOSCOW: Tehran’s Foreign Minister will travel to Moscow this week for consultations over Iran’s nuclear talks with the United States, Iran and Russia have announced. Abbas Araghchi will visit the Iranian ally later this week, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. The announcement of the trip …

15-04-2025 KYIV: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited Donald Trump to visit his country ahead of any deal with Russia to end the war. “Please, before any kind of decisions, any kind of forms of negotiations, come to see people, civilians, warriors, hospitals, churches, children destroyed or dead,” Zelensky said …

15-04-2025 ALGIERS: Algeria has asked 12 French embassy staff to leave the country within 48 hours, France’s foreign minister has said. Jean-Noel Barrot added that it was linked to the indictment of three Algerians in France on Friday, one of whom is a consular official. They are accused of involvement …

15-04-2025 QUITO: Sitting centre-right President Daniel Noboa has won the run-off round of Ecuador’s presidential election, meaning he will now serve a full four-year term. Noboa, who described his victory as “historic”, has only been in power since November 2023 after winning a snap election. He has defined his presidency, …

14-04-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ : Indian authorities have deployed troops to crack down on deadly protests in the eastern state of West Bengal over a recently passed controversial bill that critics say would dilute the rights of Muslims to manage religious endowments (waqf) worth more than $14bn. …

14-04-2025 RIYADH: The United States and Saudi Arabia will sign a preliminary agreement to cooperate over the kingdom’s ambitions to develop a civil nuclear industry, US. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told reporters in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday. Wright, who had met with Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin …

14-04-2025 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis made a brief appearance in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday at the end of a Palm Sunday service, greeting the crowds from his wheelchair as he continues to recover from double pneumonia. “Happy Palm Sunday, Happy Holy Week,” the pope said, before once returning inside …

14-04-2025 GAZA STRIP: An Israeli air strike has destroyed part of al Ahli Arab Hospital, the last fully functional hospital in Gaza City. Witnesses said the strike destroyed the intensive care and surgery departments of the hospital. Video posted online appeared to show huge flames and smoke rising after missiles …

14-04-2025 KYIV/ SUMY: Dozens of people have been killed and 84 injured, including 10 children, after a Russian attack on the centre of Sumy, according to Ukrainian authorities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the “terrible strike by Russian ballistic missiles” hit an “ordinary city street, ordinary life”, adding that without …