International

08-02-2026 Bureau Report LONDON/ NEW DELHI: Britain’s aviation authority has asked Air India to explain how a Boeing, opens new tab Dreamliner passenger jet which was grounded on arrival in India for safety checks took off from London on Sunday with a possibly faulty fuel switch, a letter shows. The …

08-02-2026 RAFAH/ GAZA STRIP: When Rotana al-Raqab learned that her name and her mothers were included on the first list of Palestinians allowed to return to Gaza through the Rafah crossing, she felt, briefly, that the long months she had spent stranded in Egypt were finally coming to an end …

08-02-2026 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: Russia has declared it is no longer bound by limits on the number of nuclear warheads it can deploy, as the last remaining arms control treaty with the United States nears expiry, threatening to dismantle the final constraints on the world’s two largest atomic arsenals. The comments …

08-02-2026 KHARTOUM: Montaha Omer Mustafa, 18, was among many people who managed to get out of el-Fasher before the city’s seizure by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, but only after paying for passage and going days on foot with little water, moving through villages and scrubland. As fighting …

08-02-2026 SYDNEY: An Australian teenager has been charged for allegedly making online threats against Israeli President Isaac Herzog, whose visit to the country on Sunday has been met with planned protests, police complaints over alleged war crimes, and efforts to have his invitation revoked. Australian Federal Police said in a …

07-02-2026 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Pakistan’s military says it has arrested four “facilitators” who helped the attacker in Friday’s deadly Islamabad mosque bombing as authorities intensify a security crackdown amid rising concerns over cross-border attacks. Thousands of mourners gathered in the capital on Saturday to bury …

07-02-2026 TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Jeffrey Epstein asked an exotic dancer to “engage in various sex acts” at the late convicted sex offender’s Florida home, a legal letter claims. In a letter released as part of the latest tranche of Epstein files, the unnamed woman’s lawyers said she had …

07-02-2026 KYIV: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says more than 200 repair crews are working to restore power in Kyiv following widespread deadly Russian attacks targeting the country’s energy sector. More than 1,100 apartment buildings in the capital are still without power, Zelensky said, adding that he had spoken to officials …

07-02-2026 DEIR AL-BALAH: Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 23 Palestinians, most of them women and children, by midday Wednesday, according to hospital officials. Israel pledged to continue strikes, saying that it was responding to a militant attack on Israeli soldiers that seriously wounded one. Among the Palestinians killed …

07-02-2026 ISTANBUL/ MUSCAT: Mediators from Qatar, Turkiye and Egypt have presented Iran and the United States with a framework of key principles to be discussed in talks on Friday this week, including a commitment by Iran to significantly limit its uranium enrichment, two sources familiar with the negotiations have told …