28-06-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told his Chinese counterpart that the two countries should seek a “permanent solution” to their decades-old border dispute, in a new push for a conclusive outcome. Singh met China’s Dong Jun on the sidelines of the meeting of …
Read More »South Africa’s Cradock Four families want justice
28-06-2025 JOHANNESBURG: On the night of June 27, 1985 in South Africa, four Black men were travelling together in a car from the southeastern city of Port Elizabeth, now Gqeberha, to Cradock. They had just finished doing community organizing work on the outskirts of the city when apartheid police officials …
Read More »White House wants deep cut in US funding
28-06-2025 WASHINGTON/THE HAGUE: The White House has recommended terminating US funding for nearly two dozen programs that conduct war crimes and accountability work globally, including in Myanmar, Syria and on alleged Russian atrocities in Ukraine, according to three US sources familiar with the matter and internal government documents reviewed by …
Read More »India pushing Muslims ‘back’ to Bangladesh
28-06-2025 ASSAM, WEST BENGAL: Ufa Ali could barely stand. On May 31, the 67-year-old bicycle mechanic returned to his home in India’s northeastern state of Assam after spending four harrowing days stranded in Bangladesh, the neighboring country he claims he had only heard of “as a slur” since birth. Ali’s …
Read More »Israel kills 549 Gazans seeking aid in past month
28-06-2025 GAZA STRIP: Hospital sources in Gaza tell media that at least 71 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the territory over the past 24 hours. Gaza’s Government Media Office says at least 549 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces while trying to access humanitarian supplies in the …
Read More »Pope Leo decries ‘shameful’ disregard for int’l law
28-06-2025 VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo XIV has lamented what he described as the rise of blunt power over the rules of international law as conflicts rage around the world and global institutions continue to fail to end abuses and war crimes. “It is disheartening to see today that the strength …
Read More »Iran turns to internal crackdown in wake of 12-day war
27-06-2025 TEHRAN/ BAGHDAD: Iranian authorities are pivoting from a ceasefire with Israel to intensify an internal security crackdown across the country with mass arrests, executions and military deployments, particularly in the restive Kurdish region, officials and activists said. Within days of Israel’s airstrikes beginning on June 13, Iranian security forces …
Read More »Trump calls for end to Netanyahu corruption trial
27-06-2025 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: US President Donald Trump has called for Israel to “pardon” Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial for alleged corruption, or drop the case altogether. He also claimed in a social media post that the US had saved Israel, alluding to its intervention in Israel’s war with Iran …
Read More »Indian economy resilient despite global flux
27-06-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s economy remains resilient despite a state of flux in the global economy due to the twin shocks from trade and geopolitical tensions, the Reserve Bank of India said in its monthly bulletin released on Wednesday. The RBI cut its key policy rate by …
Read More »World’s oldest boomerang doesn’t actually come back
27-06-2025 WARSAW/ OBLAZOWA CAVE: The world’s oldest boomerang is older than previously thought, casting new light on the ingenuity of humans living at the time. The tool, which was found in a cave in Poland in 1985, is now thought to be 40,000 years old. Archaeologists say it was fashioned …
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