26-04-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Armed police and soldiers searched homes and forests for militants in Indian Kashmir on Friday and India’s army chief reviewed security there after the killing of 26 men at a tourist site, the worst attack on civilians in nearly two decades. The …
Read More »“Sudanese eating charcoal & leaves to survive”
26-04-2025 OSLO/ KHARTOUM: Sudanese people are eating leaves and charcoal to survive after fleeing an attack on a camp for displaced people near the city of el-Fasher, an aid agency has told the BBC. “The stories we’ve been hearing are truly horrific,” Noah Taylor, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s head of …
Read More »Senior Russian General killed by car bomb in Moscow
26-04-2025 MOSCOW: A senior Russian general has been killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow, officials have confirmed. Russia’s Investigative Committee (SK), the main federal investigating authority in the country confirmed Gen Yaroslav Moskalik died when a Volkswagen Golf car exploded after an improvised explosive device stuffed with pellets …
Read More »China shares rare Moon rocks with US despite trade war
26-04-2025 BEIJING: China will let scientists from six countries, including the US, examine the rocks it collected from the Moon, a scientific collaboration that comes as the two countries remain locked in a bitter trade war. Two NASA-funded US institutions have been granted access to the lunar samples collected by …
Read More »54 soldiers killed in Jihadist attack in Benin
26-04-2025 COTONOU: Suspected jihadist insurgents killed 54 troops in an attack last week on military posts in a Benin national park, the government said Wednesday. Government spokesman Wilfried Leandre Houngbedji gave the new toll to a press briefing on the April 17 attack in the W national park in northern …
Read More »Israeli strikes across Gaza martyr over 50
25-04-2025 GAZA STRIP: Over 50 Palestinians have been martyred in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials and first responders say. Nine people died in the morning when a missile hit a police station in the market area of Jabalia town, in northern Gaza, a local hospital …
Read More »Pakistan suspends visas for Indians after Kashmir attack
25-04-2025 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has responded with tit-for-tat measures against India as tensions soared following a militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 tourists. Islamabad suspended all visas issued to Indian nationals under an exemption scheme with immediate effect, as well as expelling some of its neighbor’s diplomats …
Read More »Trade war with China to hit US healthcare
25-04-2025 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: As the United States and China engage in a trade war driven by steep tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump and counter levies by President Xi Xinping, one sector that could be deeply impacted and in turn have a disproportionate impact on the health of Americans, is …
Read More »Hamas condemns Abbas’s remarks on Gaza captives
25-04-2025 CAIRO/ GAZA STRIP: Hamas has condemned remarks made by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, who urged the Palestinian group ruling Gaza to release Israeli captives and lay down arms. Senior Hamas official Basem Naim said on Thursday that Abbas’s remarks made a day earlier were “insulting”. “Abbas repeatedly …
Read More »Kashmir attack risks India military escalation against Pakistan
25-04-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Tuesday’s bloodshed in Pahalgam where at least 26 tourists were killed in a hail of gunfire marks the deadliest militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir since 2019. The victims weren’t soldiers or officials, but civilians on holiday in one of India’s most picturesque …
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