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26-04-2025 BEIJING: China will let scientists from six countries, including the US, examine the rocks it collected from the Moon, a scientific collaboration that comes as the two countries remain locked in a bitter trade war. Two NASA-funded US institutions have been granted access to the lunar samples collected by …

26-04-2025 COTONOU: Suspected jihadist insurgents killed 54 troops in an attack last week on military posts in a Benin national park, the government said Wednesday. Government spokesman Wilfried Leandre Houngbedji gave the new toll to a press briefing on the April 17 attack in the W national park in northern …

25-04-2025 GAZA STRIP: Over 50 Palestinians have been martyred in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials and first responders say. Nine people died in the morning when a missile hit a police station in the market area of Jabalia town, in northern Gaza, a local hospital …

25-04-2025 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has responded with tit-for-tat measures against India as tensions soared following a militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 tourists. Islamabad suspended all visas issued to Indian nationals under an exemption scheme with immediate effect, as well as expelling some of its neighbor’s diplomats …

25-04-2025 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: As the United States and China engage in a trade war driven by steep tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump and counter levies by President Xi Xinping, one sector that could be deeply impacted and in turn have a disproportionate impact on the health of Americans, is …

25-04-2025 CAIRO/ GAZA STRIP: Hamas has condemned remarks made by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, who urged the Palestinian group ruling Gaza to release Israeli captives and lay down arms. Senior Hamas official Basem Naim said on Thursday that Abbas’s remarks made a day earlier were “insulting”. “Abbas repeatedly …

25-04-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Tuesday’s bloodshed in Pahalgam where at least 26 tourists were killed in a hail of gunfire marks the deadliest militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir since 2019. The victims weren’t soldiers or officials, but civilians on holiday in one of India’s most picturesque …

25-04-2025 GAZA STRIP: The voice in the Telegram video is insistent. Loud. Sometimes musical and the message unambiguous. “All of Hamas, out!” On the streets of Gaza, more and more Palestinians are expressing open defiance against the armed group that’s ruled the strip for almost 20 years. Many hold Hamas …

25-04-2025 DOHA: The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have agreed to halt fighting in the east of the country until peace talks mediated by Qatar reach their “conclusion”. It is the latest truce deal since the rebels stepped up an offensive in eastern DR Congo where authorities …

24-04-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD/ SRINAGAR: India announced a raft of measures to downgrade its ties with Pakistan on Wednesday, a day after suspected militants killed 26 men at a tourist destination in Kashmir in the worst attack on civilians in the country in nearly two decades. …