International

07-07-2025 CALAIS, France: Early one morning this week, a dinghy motored along a vast beach in northern France, stopping every few hundred metres to pick up migrants bound for Britain. Four French police gave chase, but failed to reach the migrants before they reached water’s edge. Soon, with 70-odd people …

07-07-2025 NEW YORK: Rwanda has exercised command and control over M23 rebels during their advance in eastern Congo, gaining political influence and access to mineral-rich territory, according to a confidential report by a group of United Nations experts. The report obtained by Reuters details training which the experts say Rwanda …

07-07-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies DHARAMSHALA: A senior Indian minister has said that only the Dalai Lama and the organization he has set up have the authority to identify his successor as the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism, in a rare comment contradicting rival China’s long-held position. The Dalai Lama, …

07-07-2025 SINJIL, WEST BANK: A five-metre-high metal fence slices across the eastern edge of Sinjil, a Palestinian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Heavy steel gates and roadblocks seal off all but a single route in and out of the town, watched over by Israeli soldiers at guard posts. “Sinjil …

06-07-2025 TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made his first public appearance since the start of Iran’s conflict with Israel, according to state media. State television footage showed him greeting worshippers at a mosque on Saturday during a ceremony a day before the Shia festival of Ashura. Khamenei’s …

06-07-2025 WASHINGTON: Elon Musk says he is launching a new political party, weeks after a dramatic falling out with US President Donald Trump. The billionaire announced on his social media platform X that he had set up the America Party and billed it as a challenge to the Republican and …

06-07-2025 BOGOTA/ WASHINGTON: The United States and Colombia have called home their respective top diplomats in an acceleration of worsening ties, against the backdrop of an alleged plot against Colombia’s left-wing leader. Washington, DC went first, recalling its charge d’affaires John McNamara on Thursday, “following baseless and reprehensible statements from …

06-07-2025 BEIJING/ LANZHOU: Northern and western China remain on high alert as torrential rain threatens to bring more flash flooding and landslides, following weather-related deaths in other parts of the country. Red alerts were in force on Thursday as rains made their way to Gansu province in the northwest and …

06-07-2025 ISLAMABAD/ QUETTA: Pakistan’s army has said it has killed 30 fighters who tried to cross the border from Afghanistan, just days after a suicide attack in the same region killed 16 Pakistani soldiers. The fighters, who all died in the last three days, belonged to the Pakistan Taliban or …

06-07-2025 NEW YORK: If he wins the general election in November, Zohran Mamdani could become New York City’s first South Asian mayor and the first of Indian origin but the same identity that makes him a trailblazer in United States politics has also exposed him to public outcry in India …