International

12-10-2025 KHARTOUM/ EL FASHER: Drone and artillery attack has killed at least 60 people at a displacement centre and university grounds where people had been seeking refuge, in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher in North Darfur state, according to activists. The El Fasher Resistance Committee said on Saturday that …

12-10-2025 GAZA STRIP: The bodies of 135 Palestinians have been pulled from beneath the rubble across the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s ceasefire-mandated halt in its two-year genocidal war allowed rescue workers to reach devastated areas. Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that at least 135 bodies were recovered on Saturday. Dozens …

12-10-2025 SEOUL: Claims that a study conducted by South Korean researchers “proves” a causal link between COVID-19 vaccines and an increased risk of up to six types of cancer have gone viral in recent days. These claims caused a wave of misinformation, with prominent figures and platforms using their professional …

12-10-2025 BRUSSELS: The United Kingdom has said two Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft joined a 12-hour NATO patrol earlier this week near Russia’s border, following a series of Russian drone and aircraft incursions into alliance airspace. “This was a substantial joint mission with our US and NATO allies,” Defence Minister …

11-10-2025 CARACAS: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Over the past two years, she has reenergized a politically disengaged population after more than a decade of economic and social collapse. Machado has been in hiding in Venezuela since …

11-10-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India on Friday upgraded ties with Afghanistan’s Taliban administration, giving a boost to the diplomatically isolated group, by announcing it would reopen its embassy in Kabul that was shut after the Taliban seized power in 2021. The Afghan Taliban administration will also send …

11-10-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has said that he will place a 100 percent tariff on Chinese exports to the United States, in an escalatory move that could set off a blistering trade war between the world’s two largest economies. Trump said on Friday that he would ratchet up …

11-10-2025 GAZA STRIP: Palestinians returning to their homes in the Gaza Strip have told the AFP news agency they are feeling mixed emotions as they make their journeys. In Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, Ameer Abu Iyadeh, 32, said, “We thank God for this situation” even …

11-10-2025 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL:The Taliban have blamed Pakistan for an explosion in Kabul and another in the eastern Afghanistan province of Paktika on Thursday, amid mounting tensions between the neighbors and shifting allegiances in South Asia that have alarmed Islamabad. Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid had confirmed that an …

11-10-2025 BEIJING: China tightened export controls for critical rare-earth metals on Thursday. The new restrictions were announced by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, and come ahead of an expected meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and United States President Donald Trump’s later this month. The world’s two largest economies have …