International

13-12-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI/ MILAN: Prada, opens new tab will make a limited-edition collection of sandals in India inspired by the country’s traditional footwear, selling each pair at around 800 euros ($930), Prada senior executive Lorenzo Bertelli told media, turning a backlash over cultural appropriation into a collaboration …

13-12-2025 WASHINGTON: The US has seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, a move that sent oil prices higher and sharply escalated tensions between Washington and Caracas. “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, large tanker, very large, …

13-12-2025 NAYPYIDAW: Dozens of people, including patients, have been killed, and about 70 wounded after an air strike by the country’s military government hit a major hospital in western Myanmar, according to a rebel group, aid workers and a witness. Myanmar has been gripped by attritional fighting in a raging …

13-12-2025 GAZA STRIP/ DEIR-EL-BALAH: After a night of relentless rain, Arafat al-Ghandour and his wife, Nour, finally exhaled in relief as the morning sun emerged, if only briefly, over the soaked displacement camp. The couple, parents of five, live in a worn tent riddled with holes. They spent the night …

12-12-2025 VILNIUS: The Lithuanian government has declared a “nationwide emergency situation” in response to a series of incursions from neighboring Belarus by weather balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes. Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene condemned the balloon incursions as a “hybrid attack” by Belarus that posed a real risk to national security and …

12-12-2025 BRUSSELS: The EU has opened an investigation into Google over its artificial intelligence (AI) summaries which appear above search results. The European Commission said it would examine whether the firm used data from websites to provide this service and if it failed to offer “appropriate compensation” to publishers. It …

12-12-2025 GENEVA/ JERUSALEM/ CAIRO: Thousands of children have been admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition in Gaza since an October ceasefire that was supposed to enable a major increase in humanitarian aid, the UN children’s agency said on Tuesday. UNICEF, the biggest provider of malnutrition treatment in Gaza, said that …

12-12-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Home prices in India will rise at roughly 6% in the coming two years but most real estate analysts polled by Reuters say the boom in the luxury housing sector currently driving the market will peter out within five years. The expected rise in …

12-12-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump has doubled down on his attacks against Europe, arguing that the continent is now “weak” and “decaying” due to migration. Trump told the publication Politico on Tuesday that European nations should deport people who “came into the country illegally”. “Europe, they want to …

12-12-2025 MELBOURNE: Australia has banned children under 16 from social media in a world-first, as other countries consider similar age-based measures amid rising concerns over social media’s effects on children’s health and safety. Under the new law, which came into effect at midnight local time on Wednesday (13:00 GMT on …