International

22-06-2026 TEHRAN: The US has dropped its naval blockade of Iran after the two countries signed a deal to end the war in the Middle East. US Central Command confirmed the end of the blockade on social media “in accordance with the President’s direction” and said some US vessels would …

21-06-2026 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: The prices of Apple products will have to increase due to the new demand for memory chips from the artificial intelligence boom, outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook has told The Wall Street Journal. “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” he told the newspaper on Wednesday, adding that …

21-06-2026 DUBAI: Oil prices have dropped following the United States and Iran’s signing of an interim peace agreement, resuming a slide interrupted by US President Donald Trump’s warning that he could restart his military campaign. Brent crude fell 2.3 percent today in Asia, returning the international benchmark to near to …

21-06-2026 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: The US-Iran memorandum of understanding announced on Wednesday amounts to a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and a deal to try to reach a final agreement on almost everything else. President Donald Trump framed it as a major win for the US in a lengthy press …

21-06-2026 JERUSALEM: “The whole land of Israel was promised to the children of God… and this is where we are going to build a new Temple for the entire humanity to come and pray together.” Those were the potentially incendiary words of Moshe Feiglin, a right-wing nationalist Israeli politician, who …

21-06-2026 MOSCOW: Moscow has come under the largest Ukrainian attack since the start of the full-scale war, with close to 200 drones hitting targets around the Russian capital and setting columns of thick smoke billowing high into the sky. Seventeen people were wounded in the Moscow region, according to local …

21-06-2026 QUITO: An Ecuadorean man, who police accuse of leading a faction of one of the country’s most feared criminal gangs, has been shot dead as he was leaving the airport in Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil. Security footage shows two young men waiting outside the arrivals terminal holding stuffed toys …

21-06-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Messaging platform Telegram on Wednesday challenged before the Delhi High Court the Union government’s decision to ban it in India till the undergraduate National Eligibility cum Entrance Test is held, Bar and Bench reported. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology restricted access …

20-06-2026 LONDON: The United Kingdom’s competition ⁠watchdog has ordered Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work, as part of new rules addressing concerns over the US ⁠tech giant’s dominance in the sector. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Wednesday said Google must rank organic search …

20-06-2026 TORONTO: When Diana Gallego listened to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s widely touted speech at the World Economic Forum at the start of this year, she couldn’t help but feel a disconnect. Carney had made an impassioned plea to the world’s “middle powers” to break with a United States-led …