International

04-11-2025 TEHRAN: President Masoud Pezeshkian unveiled a “Gen Z adviser” about a month ago, posing for a smiling photo with him that went viral online. The adviser, Amirreza Ahmadi, told local media that he sees his mission as listening to the youth of Iran, “from Tehran to the borders of …

04-11-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israel has only allowed a fraction of the aid deliveries agreed on as part of the US-brokered ceasefire, an average of 145 trucks per day instead of the 600 it pledged to allow into the besieged Gaza Strip. An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon has killed four …

03-11-2025 DODOMA: President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been declared the winner of Tanzania’s presidential election, securing another term amid days of unrest across the country. Samia won 98% of the votes in Wednesday’s poll, the electoral commission said. In her Saturday victory speech she said the election was “free and …

03-11-2025 WASHINGTON/ ABUJA: US President Donald Trump has threatened to carry out attacks in Nigeria in response to purported anti-Christian violence, saying he instructed the recently renamed Department of War to “prepare for possible action”. In a social media post on Saturday, Trump said the United States would immediately cut …

03-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India collected 1.96 trillion rupees ($22.3 billion) in gross goods and services taxes in October, about 5% more than the same month last year, the government said a statement on Saturday. After refunds, the government’s net tax collections were 1.69 trillion rupees, or 0.6% more …

03-11-2025 KHARTOUM: Starved and abused civilians have recounted harrowing stories after fleeing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in western Sudan’s Darfur, while thousands more remain missing. The capital of North Darfur state was the last Sudanese army stronghold in the vast region before falling to the RSF after 18 months …

03-11-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump will host Syria’s interim leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, for talks on November 10, according to Washington’s envoy to Damascus, in what would mark the first-ever visit by a Syrian president to the US capital. Tom Barrack, the US envoy to Syria, told the Axios …

03-11-2025 KYIV: Ukraine has deployed Special Forces to the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk, the country’s top military commander said, as Kyiv seeks to maintain control of the area amid an intense Russian offensive. Russia has been trying to capture Pokrovsk, dubbed “the gateway to Donetsk”, since mid-2024 in its …

03-11-2025 JERUSALEM: The Israeli military’s top lawyer, Major-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, has resigned after admitting to leaking footage showing the gang rape of a prisoner at the Sde Teiman prison facility in August last year. The video of the rape had originally been leaked to the press in early August in …

02-11-2025 KINGSTON: At least 19 people have died in Jamaica as a result of Hurricane Melissa, Information Minister Dana Morris Dixon says, as search and rescue efforts continue and authorities try to get aid to hard-hit areas. The hurricane, one of the most powerful to strike the Caribbean, also killed …