International

11-05-2025 NEW YORK: Taylor Swift’s representatives have told media she is being brought into a legal row between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively to create “tabloid clickbait”. The 35-year-old singer was summoned to a US court after it was alleged she encouraged Baldoni to accept script rewrites by Lively for …

11-05-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: India and Pakistan have accused each other of “violations” hours after the two nations said they had agreed to a ceasefire following days of cross-border military strikes. After sounds of explosions were heard in Indian-administered Kashmir, India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said …

11-05-2025 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited Ukraine to take part in “direct talks” on 15 May, hours after European leaders urged Moscow to agree to a 30-day ceasefire. In a rare televised late-night address from the Kremlin, Putin said Russia was seeking “serious negotiations” aimed at “moving towards …

10-05-2025 JERUSALEM: A US-backed mechanism for getting aid into Gaza should take effect soon, Washington’s envoy to Israel said on Friday ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East, without detailing how this would work with no ceasefire in place. Gaza’s residents face possible famine, the UN says, …

10-05-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD/ JAMMU: India and Pakistan accused each other of launching drone and artillery attacks overnight into Friday morning, as tourists and villagers fled the third day of the worst fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbors in nearly three decades. Sirens rang out in cities …

10-05-2025 DUBAI/ ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has denied supplying Chinese-made weapons to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is locked in a brutal conflict with Sudan’s military government. Salem Aljaberi, the UAE’s assistant minister for security and military affairs, said on social media on Friday that …

10-05-2025 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military says there will be “no de-escalation” with India until it has responded to India’s Wednesday strikes. Pakistan has denied claims by India’s armed forces that “military stations” in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Jammu and Udhampur, and in Punjab state’s Pathankot, were targeted in drone and missile …

10-05-2025 GENEVA/ GAZA STRIP: The United States has said a new foundation is being established to coordinate aid deliveries to Gaza amid Israel’s two-month blockade. US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told reporters on Friday that Israel would not be involved in distributing aid in the enclave but would provide …

10-05-2025 VATICAN CITY: The new Pope, Leo XIV, has called for the Catholic Church to “desperately” counter a lack of faith in his first mass at the Vatican. Speaking the day after he was elected as the 267th Pope and first US leader of the Church, he warned that people …

10-05-2025 MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin has led Russia’s Victory Day commemorations with a parade in Red Square and heightened security after days of Ukrainian strikes targeting the capital. China’s Xi Jinping joined Putin as he told thousands of soldiers and more than 20 international leaders that Russia remembered the lessons of …