08-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BIHAR: Millions of voters in India’s third most populous state, Bihar, are voting on Thursday in the first phase of elections that could not only shape the state’s future but also serve as a bellwether for the broader mood of the nation, 17 months after …
Read More »Sudanese PM calls for RSF to be labelled ‘terrorist’ group
08-11-2025 KHARTOUM: Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris has called for the international community to designate the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as a “terrorist” organization and warned that violence could spill over to the wider region as evidence of atrocities committed by the paramilitary group in the western region of Darfur …
Read More »Tigray fighters enter Ethiopia’s Afar region
08-11-2025 ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia’s Afar region has accused forces from neighboring Tigray of crossing into its territory, seizing several villages and attacking civilians, in what it called a breach of the 2022 peace deal that ended the war in northern Ethiopia. Between 2020 and 2022, Tigray was the center of …
Read More »Desperation in Gaza as Israel blocks aid despite ceasefire
08-11-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA STRIP: Only about 100 aid trucks are entering the war-ravaged Gaza Strip daily, a figure “wholly insufficient” for the desperate population with NGOs effectively “blocked” by Israel from distribution efforts, an aid group says. Media has viewed a copy of the UN Security Council draft resolution …
Read More »France threatens to block Shein over ‘childlike’ sex dolls
07-11-2025 LONDON: French politicians are escalating their fight with Chinese online fast-fashion retailer Shein, threatening a ban over childlike sex dolls on its site, just as the company plans to open its first-ever permanent shop in Paris. After France’s consumer watchdog found sex dolls resembling children for sale on Shein’s …
Read More »Trump-Modi speak frequently as trade talks continue
07-11-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks often with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and trade teams from both countries continue to hold talks, the White House said on Tuesday. “The president and his trade team continue to be in very serious discussions with India,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt …
Read More »Palestinians suffer from hunger in Gaza despite truce
07-11-2025 GAZA STRIP: Aid agencies are in “a race against time” to get food and other humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip, a United Nations official has warned, as Israeli restrictions continue to impede deliveries across the bombarded enclave. Speaking during a news briefing on Tuesday, a senior spokesperson for …
Read More »Narco-sub carrying 1.7 tons of cocaine seized in Atlantic
07-11-2025 LISBON: Four people have been detained after Portuguese authorities intercepted a narco-sub carrying more than 1.7 tons of cocaine in the mid-Atlantic. The semi-submersible vessel was bound for the Iberian Peninsula and was seized in recent days, according to officials. Footage shows the police and navy surrounding the vessel …
Read More »Reddit added to Australia’s social media ban on under-16s
07-11-2025 MELBOURNE: Popular forum site Reddit has been added to Australia’s world-first social media ban for children under 16 that starts next month. Live-streaming platform Kick will also be included, bringing the number of sites targeted in the ban to nine. They include Facebook, X, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and …
Read More »Dozens dead as typhoon wreaks havoc in Philippines
07-11-2025 MANILA: At least 40 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes as one of strongest typhoons this year ripped through the central Philippines, officials say. Typhoon Kalmaegi has flooded large areas, including entire towns on the most populated central island of Cebu, where …
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