International

03-03-2025 JERUSALEM/ CAIRO: Israel will adopt the proposal by US President Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza for the Ramadan and Passover periods, the prime minister’s office said early on Sunday, hours after the first phase of the previously agreed ceasefire was set to expire. …

03-03-2025 NIS, Serbia: Tens of thousands of people flocked to the southern town of Nis on Saturday to commemorate victims of a railway station disaster and take part in a student-led protest that has become the biggest threat yet to the Serbian president’s grip on power. Mass demonstrations have gathered …

03-03-2025 DHAKA: Bangladeshi students at the forefront of protests that ousted Sheikh Hasina as prime minister last year launched a political party on Friday to contest elections likely to be held by the end of the year. The launch of ‘Jatiya Nagorik Party’ (National Citizens’ Party), opens a new chapter …

03-03-2025 Bureau Report SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday that his government would temporarily halt tax hikes on draught beer, amid sagging popularity for the governing Labor Party ahead of a general election due by May. Australia is one of the world’s wealthiest countries per capita and …

02-03-2025 GAZA STRIP: Ramadan has come to devastated Gaza. While the rest of the world embarks with a festive mood on a month of fasting and prayer, we do so with grief and sorrow. The echoes of war still ring loud. There is no certainty that this ceasefire will last. …

02-03-2025 LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer greeted President Volodymyr Zelenskiy with a warm embrace on Saturday after the Ukrainian leader flew to London for talks following his clash at the White House with US President Donald Trump. In an extraordinary Oval Office meeting on Friday, Trump threatened to withdraw …

Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India will have above-average temperatures in March across most regions following a warmer February, the weather office forecast on Friday, conditions that could threaten winter-sown crops such as wheat, chickpea and rapeseed. Both maximum and minimum temperatures will be above average in most areas in March, …

02-03-2025 GAZA STRIP/ TEL AVIV: Where next? The first six-week phase of the Gaza ceasefire ends on Saturday. The 42 days since 19 January have seen their fair share of uncertainty, hope, grief and anger, but everything that should have happened in that time has. Israeli hostages, the living and …

02-03-2025 PRETORIA: Sweeping notices of termination of funding have been received by organizations working with HIV and Aids across Africa, with dire predictions of a huge rise in deaths as a result. After the US announced a permanent end to funding for HIV projects, services across the board have been …

02-03-2025 DAMASCUS/ ISTANBUL: Outlawed Kurdish group the PKK has declared a ceasefire with Turkey after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on the movement to lay down its arms and dissolve itself. In a statement on Saturday, the PKK said it hoped Turkey would release Ocalan, who has been imprisoned …