30-05-2025 WASHINGTON: Billionaire Tesla, opens new tab CEO Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration after leading a tumultuous efficiency drive, during which he upended several federal agencies but ultimately failed to deliver the generational savings he had sought. His “off-boarding will begin tonight,” a White House official told media …
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30-05-2025 BEIJING: China has successfully launched a spacecraft as part of its first-ever mission to retrieve pristine asteroid samples, in what researchers have described as a “significant step” in Beijing’s ambitions for interplanetary exploration. China’s Long March 3B rocket lifted off at about 1.31am local time (18:30 GMT) on Thursday …
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30-05-2025 MOSCOW: Russia says it has yet to receive a response from Ukraine over its proposal to hold another round of ceasefire talks in Istanbul next week, as Turkiye’s president urged the warring sides not to “close the door” to dialogue. Moscow said earlier this week it wanted to hold …
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30-05-2025 NEW DELHI: Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a professor of political science at Ashoka University, has become the latest hate figure manufactured by Hindu nationalists in India with backing from the police and judiciary. A crime that Mahmudabad has not committed is being attributed to him, and he is now …
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30-05-2025 DAMASCUS: Aref Shamtan, 73, chose to erect a tent near his decimated home in northwest Syria instead of remaining in a displacement camp following the overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. “I feel good here, even among the rubble,” Shamtan said, sipping tea at the tent near his field. …
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30-05-2025 JABALIA/ GAZA STRIP: Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 55 people so far today, including 23 killed in an intense wave of strikes on central Gaza’s Bureij. The Israeli government has approved 22 illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, the largest one-time approval in history. Chaos …
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30-05-2025 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visited Azerbaijan in February, and Turkiye only a month ago, in April. Yet, this week, he was back in both countries, as part of a five-day, four-nation diplomatic blitzkrieg also including stops in Iran and Tajikistan, where Sharif will hold talks …
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29-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Defence Minister has approved a framework for building the country’s most advanced stealth fighter jet, the defence ministry said on Tuesday, amid a new arms race with Pakistan weeks after a military conflict between the neighbors. Indian state-run Aeronautical Development Agency, which is executing …
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29-05-2025 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered its missions abroad to stop scheduling new appointments for student and exchange visitor visa applicants as the State Department prepares to expand social media vetting of foreign students, according to an internal cable seen by Reuters on Tuesday. US Secretary of State …
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29-05-2025 MOSCOW: A senior Moscow security official has rebuked United States President Donald Trump and raised the danger of another world war breaking out after Trump said Russian leader Vladimir Putin was “playing with fire” by refusing to engage in Ukraine ceasefire talks with Kyiv. Dmitry Medvedev said World War …
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