International

20-11-2025 MONTREAL: Canadian human rights activists are demanding answers from their government after a former United Nations special rapporteur who investigated Israeli abuses against Palestinians was interrogated at the Canadian border on “national security” grounds. Richard Falk, 95, was stopped at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Thursday and questioned for …

20-11-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump says he will greenlight the sale of advanced F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, signaling a departure in how Washington handles sophisticated weapons transfers to Arab countries. Trump made the announcement on Monday at the White House, just one day before Crown Prince …

19-11-2025 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for Hamas to be expelled from the region, a day after the UN Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war that offers the Palestinian militant group amnesty. Netanyahu publicly endorsed the plan during a White House …

19-11-2025 GAZA CITY/ MOSCOW: Gaza’s Hamas rulers said they rejected Monday’s UN resolution which calls for an international force to be deployed in the territory, saying it fails to respect the “demands and rights” of the Palestinians. “This resolution does not meet the level of our Palestinian people’s political and …

19-11-2025 QUITO: Voters in Ecuador have rejected a proposal to allow the return of foreign military bases, according to early referendum results, with a count of close to 90 percent of ballots showing nearly two-thirds voting “no” on the proposal. The loss on Sunday was a blow to President Daniel …

19-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s markets regulator will tell a court this week that it sees no reason to release additional data and documents to Jane Street, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, after the US firm appealed a securities trading ban. The Securities and …

19-11-2025 DAMASCUS: Syria has arrested members of the country’s security and military services as part of a probe into sectarian violence in the southern province of Suwayda earlier this year that left hundreds dead. Judge Hatem Naasan, head of a committee investigating the eruption of violence in Suwayda in July, …

19-11-2025 KINSHASA: At least 32 people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to officials, after a bridge at a copper and cobalt mine collapsed due to overcrowding. The incident occurred at the Kalando mine in southeastern Lualaba province on Saturday, the province’s interior minister, …

19-11-2025 JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: Israel is engaged in a last-ditch bid to change the wording of a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution on the next phase of United States President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan that was recently amended to mention a “credible pathway” to Palestinian statehood. Israeli Prime Minister …

18-11-2025 UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council passed a US-drafted resolution Monday that aims to move beyond the fragile truce in Gaza to a more sustainable peace and the reconstruction of the devastated enclave. The 15-member council voted 13 to 0 in favor of the resolution, with abstentions by Russia …