International

17-07-2026 BERLIN: A US national who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has arrived in Germany for treatment, the health ministry in Berlin said on Monday, weeks after another American infected with Ebola in the DRC was treated in Berlin. Meanwhile, the Trump administration on Monday said …

17-07-2026 SANA’A: Iranian flights to and from Yemen are an unacceptable violation of the country’s sovereignty, the vice-president in Yemen’s Saudi-backed, UN-recognized government has said. Abdullah al-Alimi said in an interview that the planes contained equipment for the Houthi movement, which he said had transformed from merely a domestic threat …

17-07-2026 DARWIN: Police in Australia have released previously unseen photographs from their investigation into the murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio 25 years ago. Falconio, from Huddersfield, was shot on a remote stretch of highway near the Northern Territory town of Barrow Creek, about 186 miles (300km) north of Alice …

17-07-2026 CAIRO/ DUBAI/ WASHINGTON: Iran fired ballistic missiles at a US air ​base in Jordan on Tuesday and the United States attacked Iranian targets for five hours in a battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz that has pushed up oil ‌prices to four-week highs. US forces launched waves …

17-07-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A prominent ​Indian social activist demanding the education minister’s resignation over exam paper leaks entered the 17th day of ‌a hunger strike on Tuesday as his condition worsened, prompting opposition leaders to urge him to call off the fast. Sonam Wangchuk has been fasting in …

17-07-2026 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: The United States carried out attacks against Iran for a third consecutive night late on Monday. Iran has continued to hit targets in the Gulf in several waves of retaliatory strikes on Tuesday, including UAE‑flagged oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and US military facilities in …

16-07-2026 PARIS: The battle by firefighters in France to bring under control a large wildfire raging in forests south of the country’s capital is entering its second day. The Fontainebleau forest blaze, described by officials as “virulent” and of “exceptional scale”, partially closed the country’s main north-south highway. Interior minister …

16-07-2026 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has targeted US military facilities in Bahrain, claimed it has destroyed radar systems in Oman and hit Jordan and Kuwait in its latest round of overnight retaliatory strikes against the United States. Tehran’s attacks on Monday came as a response to …

16-07-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BHOPAL: An Indian judge has become the target of online abuse and death threats days after she sentenced 14 men to life imprisonment for lynching a man to death. On 12 June, the additional district and sessions judge of a court in Madhya Pradesh state, …

16-07-2026 BRUSSELS: The European Union’s foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss imposing sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Pressure from EU member states to impose sanctions has increased in recent months due to escalating violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property and the …