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02-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaffirmed his support on Saturday for a peaceful settlement in Ukraine during a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Modi’s office said. Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, said Modi supported Ukraine’s call for a ceasefire in the …

02-09-2025 WASHINGTON: Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has sued a former engineer at the company for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to its Grok chatbot and taking them to rival OpenAI. Musk’s company said in the complaint, opens new tab filed on Thursday in California federal court that Xuechen …

02-09-2025 WASHINGTON: A federal appeals court has ruled that most of Donald Trump’s tariffs are an overreach of his use of emergency powers as president. The so-called reciprocal tariffs, imposed on nearly every country the US trades with are being illegally imposed, the US Court of Appeals said on Friday. …

02-09-2025 CHICAGO: The mayor of Chicago has signed an order detailing how the city will resist a potential immigration crackdown threatened by the Trump administration. “We do not need nor want an unconstitutional and illegal military occupation of our city,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson, a Democrat. The order directs city …

02-09-2025 BEIJING/ NEW DELHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are among the more than 20 world leaders attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, which is now the world’s largest regional grouping by population. The Beijing-backed bloc will convene on Sunday and Monday in the northern …

02-09-2025 PARIS/ LONDON: The Bayeux Tapestry, which documents the Norman invasion of England in 1066, will be closed to the public in France from Monday as opposition mounts ahead of its move to London. The next time it will be possible to see the nearly 1,000-year-old work of art should …

01-09-2025 KABUL: One of Afghanistan’s worst earthquakes killed more than 800 people and injured at least 2,800, authorities said on Monday, as rescuers struggled to reach remote areas due to rough mountainous terrain and inclement weather. The disaster will further stretch the resources of the war-torn nation’s Taliban administration, already …

01-09-2025 BUENOS AIRES: They look like ordinary foals, docile with honey brown coats and white facial patches, content to spend their days munching alfalfa in a cordoned-off pasture in rural Buenos Aires province but these five 10-month-olds are the world’s first genetically edited horses: cloned copies of a prize-winning horse …

01-09-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s economy unexpectedly gathered steam in the April-June quarter, defying expectations of slower growth even as a sharp rise in U.S. tariffs on Indian imports threatens to weigh on business activity in coming quarters. The United States doubled tariffs on Indian goods to …

01-09-2025 JERUSALEM: Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of staff has said there is a “deal on the table” for the remaining hostages in Gaza, according to Israeli media. Lt Gen Eyal Zamir reportedly said the Israeli military had brought about the conditions for a deal, and it is now in …