International

26-08-2025 DHAKA: Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus has warned that his country can no longer provide additional support for the 1.5 million Rohingya refugees it shelters, calling on the international community to work on a roadmap for the voluntary return of the persecuted minority back to their homeland in Myanmar. …

26-08-2025 GAZA STRIP: Press freedom groups and rights advocates express outrage over Israel’s killing of five Palestinian journalists, including one from Al Jazeera, in an attack that killed 20 people at a Gaza hospital. Hussam al-Masri (Reuters), Mohammad Salama (Al Jazeera), Mariam Abu Daqqa (freelance), Ahmed Abu Aziz and Moaz …

26-08-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s parliament has passed a sweeping bill banning online gambling, after government figures showed companies had stripped $2.3bn annually from 450 million people. The ban affects platforms for card games, poker and fantasy sports, including India’s wildly popular homegrown fantasy cricket apps. It also leaves …

26-08-2025 MOSCOW: Ukraine launched a drone attack on Russia, forcing a sharp fall in the capacity of a reactor at one of Russia’s biggest nuclear power plants and sparking a huge blaze at the major Ust-Luga fuel export terminal, Russian officials said. Despite talk of peace by Russia and Ukraine, …

26-08-2025 TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that the United States wants Tehran “to be obedient” to it, but the Iranian people will resist such “a grave insult”, state media reported on Sunday. “They want Iran to be obedient to America. The Iranian nation will stand with …

26-08-2025 SANAA/ JERUSALEM: Israel launched air strikes on the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Sunday, killing two people and wounding five. Israel said it targeted a military compound, where the presidential palace is located, missile bases, and oil and power stations. Yemeni al-Masira TV channel reported that Israel struck an …

25-08-2025 ISTANBUL/ UNITED NATIONS: Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan has written to US President Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, and urged her to contact Israel’s prime minister and raise the plight of children in Gaza, authorities in Ankara said on Saturday. Emine Erdogan wrote that she had been inspired by …

25-08-2025 DAMASCUS/ SWEIDA: Syria’s first parliamentary election under its new Islamist administration, scheduled for September, will not include the southern province of Sweida and two other provinces because of security concerns, the electoral commission said on Saturday. Hundreds of people were reported killed in July in clashes in Sweida province …

25-08-2025 WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: President Donald Trump said he would nominate Sergio Gor, one of his closest aides, to be the next US ambassador to India, where he will oversee frosty relations that have worsened with the planned doubling of US tariffs on goods from India next week. Gor, who …

25-08-2025 CONAKRY: Guinea‘s military rulers have suspended the country’s three main opposition parties, including that of former President Alpha Conde, in the run-up to a constitutional referendum next month. The order on Saturday prevents Conde’s Rally of the Guinean People, the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea, led by former …