International

18-04-2025 CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: The US government has threatened to ban Harvard University from enrolling foreign students after the institution said it would not bow to demands from President Donald Trump’s administration and was hit with a funding freeze. The White House has demanded the oldest university in the US make …

18-04-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: US upland cotton exports to India have risen in the past few months fueled by global tariff conflicts, declining American prices and rising demand in the South Asian country, industry experts said. Exports to India from February to April jumped to 155,260 …

18-04-2025 TEHRAN: Iran has confirmed that its next round of nuclear talks with the United States this weekend will be held in Rome after earlier confusion over where the negotiations would be conducted. Wednesday’s announcement on Iranian state television came as Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian formally approved the resignation of …

18-04-2025 GAZA STRIP: Medical sources told media that at least 35 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since early on Wednesday, and more devastating strikes have been reported in recent hours. The United Nations said an estimated 500,000 people have been “newly displaced or uprooted once more” …

18-04-2025 LONDON/ CAMBRIDGE: Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms. This is the …

18-04-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Israel’s Defence minister has said troops will remain in so-called security zones they have established by seizing large areas of Gaza even after an end to the war. Israel Katz said the zones would provide a “buffer” to protect Israeli communities “in any temporary or permanent situation”, …

18-04-2025 STOCKHOLM: Every spring for the past six years, millions of people have tuned in to a round-the-clock livestream of elk on the move in northern Sweden. “The Great Moose Migration” tracks the animals as they swim across the Angerman River and make their annual journey toward greener, summer pastures. …

17-04-2025 MOSCOW: A Russian court has sentenced four journalists to five and a half years in prison each after convicting them of “extremism” linked to their alleged work with an organization founded by the late opposition leader Alexey Navalny. Antonina Favorskaya, Konstantin Gabov, Sergey Karelin and Artyom Kriger were found …

17-04-2025 PARIS: France says it will expel 12 Algerian diplomatic and consular staff members and has recalled its ambassador from Algiers, deepening a crisis that threatens to unravel months of attempted reconciliation between the two countries. The announcement on Tuesday comes a day after Algeria ordered 12 French diplomats to …

17-04-2025 UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has ramped up the forced mass deportation of Afghan refugees and migrants, with nearly 60,000 having crossed the border since the start of April, the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. Nearly three million Afghans in Pakistan are facing deportation after Prime Minister Shehbaz …