International

14-07-2025 SYDNEY: Australia will not commit troops in advance to any conflict, Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy said on Sunday, responding to a report that the Pentagon has pressed its ally to clarify what role it would play if the US and China went to war over Taiwan. Australia prioritizes …

14-07-2025 ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called for full support of the disarmament of Kurdish militants that began with a handover of the first batch of weapons by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) forces, a step he said opened a new page for the country. Thirty PKK militants burned their weapons …

14-07-2025 DAKAR: An Israeli-American businessman, a former State Department official and a decorated Green Beret pitched up in the Democratic Republic of Congo in March with a message for President Felix Tshisekedi from the Trump administration. Two days later, they fled the country in fear of arrest. The three envoys …

14-07-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The central government has once again extended the deadline for coal-fired thermal power plants to comply with Sulphur dioxide (SO2) emission norms and has granted full exemptions to many plants located away from critically polluted areas or large cities. In a notification issued on 11 …

14-07-2025 WASHINGTON: The State Department began firing more than 1,350 US-based employees yesterday as the administration of President Donald Trump presses ahead with an unprecedented overhaul of its diplomatic corps, a move critics say will undermine US ability to defend and promote US interests abroad. The layoffs, which affect 1,107 …

13-07-2025 GAZA STRIP/ JERUSALEM: Israeli forces have killed at least 110 Palestinians in attacks across Gaza on Saturday, according to medical sources, including 34 people waiting for food rations at the United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in southern Rafah. The killings on Saturday came as progress in ceasefire talks …

13-07-2025 TEHRAN: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned that any snapback of United Nations sanctions on the country “would signify the end of Europe’s role in the Iranian nuclear dossier“. A clause in the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between Iran and world powers, which United States …

13-07-2025 DOHA/ JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Talks aimed at securing a ceasefire in Gaza are stalling over the extent of Israeli forces’ withdrawal from the Palestinian enclave, Palestinian and Israeli sources familiar with the negotiations in Doha said on Saturday. The indirect talks over a US proposal for a 60-day ceasefire are …

13-07-2025 LONDON: London’s police force said on Saturday that officers had arrested 41 people who had expressed support for the banned group Palestine Action at a protest outside parliament. British lawmakers proscribed the group under anti-terrorism legislation earlier this month after some of its members broke into a Royal Air …

13-07-2025 GAZA STRIP: At least 87 Palestinians have been killed since dawn in Israeli attacks across Gaza, with dozens of children dying from malnutrition during Israel’s punishing months-long blockade, as ceasefire talks reportedly stall. Among the victims on Saturday, 14 were killed in Gaza City, four of them in an …