International

31-05-2025 WASHINGTON: The United States will “aggressively revoke” the visas of Chinese students studying in the country, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced, as the administration of President Donald Trump continues its crackdown on foreign students enrolled at higher education institutions. Rubio announced the shock move in a post …

31-05-2025 ROME: The World Food Program (WFP) has said it is “shocked and alarmed” that its premises in southwestern Sudan have been hit by repeated shelling from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), as the paramilitary group wages a brutal civil war, now in its third year, with the Sudanese army. …

31-05-2025 GAZA STRIP: There were multiple explosions near a newly opened aid distribution point opened by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the centre of the Strip, as desperate Palestinians struggle to find food and the United Nations warns the “window to prevent famine is closing fast”. Israeli attacks on Gaza …

31-05-2025 BUENOS AIRES: The trial of Diego Maradona’s medical staff has collapsed in Argentina after it was found that a judge involved in the case had taken part in a documentary about it. The judge in charge of the proceedings said the trial, which began on 11 March and was …

31-05-2025 WEST BANK: Israeli ministers say 22 new Jewish settlements have been approved in the occupied West Bank, the biggest expansion in decades. Several already exist as outposts, built without government authorization, but will now be made legal under Israeli law. Others are completely new, according to Defence Minister Israel …

30-05-2025 WASHINGTON: Billionaire Tesla, opens new tab CEO Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration after leading a tumultuous efficiency drive, during which he upended several federal agencies but ultimately failed to deliver the generational savings he had sought. His “off-boarding will begin tonight,” a White House official told media …

30-05-2025 BEIJING: China has successfully launched a spacecraft as part of its first-ever mission to retrieve pristine asteroid samples, in what researchers have described as a “significant step” in Beijing’s ambitions for interplanetary exploration. China’s Long March 3B rocket lifted off at about 1.31am local time (18:30 GMT) on Thursday …

30-05-2025 MOSCOW: Russia says it has yet to receive a response from Ukraine over its proposal to hold another round of ceasefire talks in Istanbul next week, as Turkiye’s president urged the warring sides not to “close the door” to dialogue. Moscow said earlier this week it wanted to hold …

30-05-2025 NEW DELHI: Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a professor of political science at Ashoka University, has become the latest hate figure manufactured by Hindu nationalists in India with backing from the police and judiciary. A crime that Mahmudabad has not committed is being attributed to him, and he is now …

30-05-2025 DAMASCUS: Aref Shamtan, 73, chose to erect a tent near his decimated home in northwest Syria instead of remaining in a displacement camp following the overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. “I feel good here, even among the rubble,” Shamtan said, sipping tea at the tent near his field. …