International

21-01-2025 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has been sworn in for a second term as president of the United States at noon local time (17:00 GMT) in Washington, DC. Trump used his inaugural address to reiterate his grievances against his political opponents, saying he would “liberate” the country from a “radical and …

21-01-2025 GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM: The grisly search for an estimated 10,000 bodies buried under the concrete wasteland in Gaza is now under way, the civil defence agency says, with at least 62 of the dead recovered after the ceasefire halted fighting. Celebrations in the occupied West Bank as 90 Palestinian …

21-01-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: A court in India has sentenced a man to life in prison for the rape and murder of a junior doctor, in a case that sparked nationwide outrage and protests. The judge rejected demands for the death penalty but said that Sanjay Roy, a …

21-01-2025 BEIJING: China has executed a man found guilty of killing at least 35 people in a car attack in November, in what is thought to be the deadliest attack in the country for a decade. Fan Weiqiu, 62, injured dozens more when he drove his car into people exercising …

21-01-2025 GAZA STRIP: After 15 months of war that began with a brutal attack on Israel by Hamas and ended with much of the Gaza Strip levelled by Israel, a ceasefire came into effect on Sunday that saw three women hostages released from Gaza and 90 Palestinians freed from Israeli …

21-01-2025 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has said that Donald Trump’s plans to deport illegal migrants from the US would be a “disgrace” if they materialized. Speaking to an Italian TV program from his Vatican residence, Francis said that if the plans went ahead, Trump would make “poor wretches that don’t …

20-01-2025 GAZA STRIP/ JERUSALEM: The first phase of the long-awaited Gaza ceasefire deal has begun after an almost three-hour delay, with Hamas set to release three Israeli hostages later on Sunday. The ceasefire was due to start at 08:30 (06:30 GMT), but Israel said Hamas had not delivered the names …

20-01-2025 WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a looming ban once he assumes office on Monday. “I think that would be, certainly, an option that we look at,” Trump said in an interview on NBC News’ Meet The Press …

20-01-2025 KUALA LAMPUR/ LANGKAWI: Southeast Asian foreign ministers hold a closed-doors retreat in Malaysia on Sunday, as the country hosts its first meeting as chair of the regional bloc ASEAN amid an intensifying civil war in Myanmar and confrontations in the South China Sea. Malaysia takes its turn as rotating …

20-01-2025 UNITED NATIONS: Germany’s ambassador to the United States has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob US law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech companies “co-governing power”, according to a confidential document seen by Reuters. The briefing document, dated Jan. 14 and signed …