15-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India said on Wednesday that it rejects China’s move to rename places in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh where the Asian neighbors share a border, adding that the Himalayan territory was an integral part of India. Beijing has renamed places in Arunachal Pradesh in …
Read More »‘White South Africans going to US are cowards’
15-05-2025 PRETORIA: President Cyril Ramaphosa has called a group of 59 white South Africans who have moved to the US to resettle “cowards”, saying “they’ll be back soon”. The group of Afrikaners arrived in the US on Monday after President Donald Trump granted them refugee status, saying they faced racial …
Read More »Peru’s PM resigns ahead of no-confidence vote
15-05-2025 LIMA: The prime minister of Peru, Gustavo Adrianzen, has resigned hours before he was due to face a no-confidence vote in Congress. Members of Peru’s Congress had called for the no-confidence vote after the recent kidnap and killing of 13 mine workers, which shocked the country. Adrianzen’s resignation is …
Read More »War refugees complain of abuse in Poland
15-05-2025 WARSAW: Svitlana says her daughter loved her school in Poland. “Even when we moved to another area, she didn’t want to change schools”, says the 31-year-old Ukrainian mother. “She liked it so much. There was no bullying.” Now she says the atmosphere at the school and in Poland overall …
Read More »Israeli strikes in northern Gaza kill over 50
15-05-2025 GAZA/ JABALIA: Over 50 more Palestinians have been killed in a series of Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza overnight, a local hospital says. The Indonesian hospital reported that 32 children and 25 women were among the dead after a number of homes in Jabalia town and refugee camp …
Read More »Ukraine’s Zelenskiy insists on face-to-face talks with Putin
14-05-2025 KYIV/ MOSCOW: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will attend talks on Ukraine this week only if Russia’s Vladimir Putin is also there, an aide to the Ukrainian leader said on Tuesday, challenging the Kremlin to show it is genuine about seeking peace. US President Donald Trump’s senior envoys, Steve Witkoff and …
Read More »India’s inflation slows to lowest in nearly 6 years
14-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s retail inflation remained below the central bank’s 4% target for the third consecutive month as food prices rose at a slower pace, opening up room for more interest rate cuts to support growth in the world’s fifth-largest economy. Annual retail inflation, opens new tab …
Read More »White South Africans welcomed to US as refugees
14-05-2025 DULLES: A group of about 50 White South Africans landed at Dulles International Airport on Monday as refugees, coming to the United States under a humanitarian designation meant for people fleeing war or persecution that the Trump administration has suspended for all other groups worldwide. President Donald Trump has …
Read More »How India-Pakistan combat obliterated old red lines?
14-05-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Guns have fallen silent for now along the tense India-Pakistan frontier, after a ceasefire that appears to have held for three nights. On May 7, India launched predawn attacks on what it called multiple “terror sites” across Pakistan to avenge the April …
Read More »‘We like each other a lot’: Trump
14-05-2025 RIYADH: US President Donald Trump has received a royal welcome after arriving in Saudi Arabia, his first stop of a three-day tour that will also see him visit Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. “We like each other a lot,” Trump says during talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin …
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