International

14-10-2025 PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled a new government after holding marathon talks with newly re-appointed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu ahead of a fast-approaching deadline to present next year’s budget to parliament. In Lecornu’s new cabinet, Jean-Noel Barrot remains as foreign minister, while outgoing Labour Minister Catherine Vautrin …

14-10-2025 GAZA STRIP: Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed during clashes in Gaza City, just days after Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources told Al Jazeera Arabic that the 28-year-old, who had gained prominence for his videos covering the war, was shot …

13-10-2025 MOSCOW/ KYIV: Ukraine has captured an Indian national allegedly fighting for Russian forces, the first known Indian detained in the ongoing war. Sahil Majothi, 22, from the Indian state of Gujarat, went to Russia to study computer engineering two years ago. His mother claims he was falsely accused in …

13-10-2025 SYDNEY: Australia is mulling the introduction of mandated floor prices for critical minerals and funding for new rare earth projects as part of a proposed resources deal with the United States, The Age newspaper reported on Sunday. Government officials have initiated talks with miners about contributing to an AU$1.2 …

13-10-2025 MANILA: The Philippines accused Chinese maritime forces of using water cannon and ramming a Filipino vessel near the Philippine-occupied Thitu Island, calling the actions a “clear threat” that escalates tensions in contested South China Sea waters. The Philippines Coast Guard said three Filipino vessels, including the BRP Datu Pagbuaya, …

13-10-2025 SYDNEY: Tens of thousands of people joined a pro-Palestinian rally in the business district of Australia’s most populous city, Sydney, on Sunday, organizers said, after a court this week blocked a move to hold the protest at the Sydney Opera House. Around 27 protests took place across Australia on …

13-10-2025 GAZA STRIP: Rebuilding Gaza from the ground up is a task of almost unimaginable scale, but for Palestinians determined to return to their lives, there is no time to waste. Bulldozers are already out clearing the rubble to make way for returnees to reach what is left of their …

13-10-2025 VICTORIA: Seychelles’ opposition leader, Patrick Herminie, has won the country’s presidential race, defeating incumbent leader Wavel Ramkalawan in a run-off vote, according to the electoral commission. Herminie won 52.7 percent of the vote, while Ramkalawan took 47.3 percent, official results announced early on Sunday showed. In his victory speech, …

13-10-2025 KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Donald Trump to broker peace in Ukraine like in “the Middle East” during a phone call, saying if the United States president could stop one war, “others can be stopped as well.” Saturday’s call came a day after Russia launched a large-scale …

12-10-2025 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: The Taliban government has confirmed that it attacked Pakistani troops in multiple mountainous locations on the northern border. Casualties are not yet clear in what the Taliban government called “retaliatory operations”, after it claimed Pakistan had violated Afghan airspace and bombed a …