International

04-09-2025 BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping warned the world was facing a choice between peace and war at a massive military parade in Beijing on Wednesday, flanked by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in an unprecedented show of force. The event to mark 80 years since …

04-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India plans to increase pharmaceutical exports to Russia, the Netherlands and Brazil, according to two industry sources aware of the matter, aiming to expand its presence beyond the United States, its largest market, amid tariff-related concerns. India’s pharmaceutical industry is currently exempt from US President …

04-09-2025 OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso’s unelected transitional parliament has passed a bill banning homosexual acts, a little over a year after a draft of an amended family code that criminalized homosexuality was adopted by the country’s cabinet. The new measure unanimously voted through on Monday imposes punishments of up to five …

04-09-2025 KHARTOUM:  landslide has killed at least 370 people in the remote Marra Mountains in western Sudan, a UN official has told media. Antoine Gerard, the UN’s deputy humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, said that it was hard to assess the scale of the incident or the exact death toll as …

04-09-2025 KABUL: A fresh magnitude-5.2 aftershock has struck eastern Afghanistan, two days after a powerful quake in the same region killed more than 1,400 people and injured 3,000 others, according to the Taliban government. Rescue efforts following Sunday’s magnitude-six quake have been complicated by landslides that have blocked roads, making …

04-09-2025 NEW YORK: A US judge has ruled that Google doesn’t need to sell off its Android operating system or its Chrome browser in a landmark monopoly case. However, the tech giant has been ordered to share data with rivals to help open up competition in online search. The judgment …

04-09-2025 GAZA STRIP: The Israeli military onslaught on Gaza City continues nonstop, resulting in the killing of more than 50 Palestinians, including aid seekers, as it seeks to seize control of the enclave’s biggest urban centre, home to some 1 million people. At least 105 Palestinians were killed across Gaza …

03-09-2025 ABUJA: A woman has been burnt to death by a mob in northern Nigeria’s Niger state after she was accused of blaspheming against Prophet Muhammad, police have said. Police condemned the killing of the woman identified in local media as a food vendor named Amaye as “jungle justice”, saying …

03-09-2025 CANBERRA: A fugitive who allegedly murdered two officers in a small rural Australian town in the state of Victoria is being helped by some members of the community, police have said. Dezi Freeman has been on the run since last Tuesday, when police arrived at his Porepunkah property to …

03-09-2025 TIANJIN/ MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin, after talking with China’s Xi Jinping and India’s Narendra Modi, said on Monday the issue of NATO’s eastward enlargement would have to be addressed for there to be sustainable peace in Ukraine. Putin ordered tens of thousands of troops to invade Ukraine in …