27-11-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping held a wide-ranging phone call on issues like Taiwan and trade, as relations appeared to gather new momentum since the pair’s meeting in South Korea last month. Hours after the call on Monday, the US president hailed the two …
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26-11-2025 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel’s military has killed a senior member of the militant group Hezbollah in an air strike on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, despite a ceasefire. It described Haitham Ali al-Tabtabai, Hezbollah’s chief of staff, as a veteran of the group who had held a …
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26-11-2025 BEIJING: China called Japan’s plan to deploy missiles on an island near Taiwan a deliberate attempt to “create regional tension and provoke military confrontation” on Monday, as a diplomatic dispute simmers between the two nations. The remarks come amid their worst diplomatic crisis in years, after Japanese Prime Minister …
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26-11-2025 WASHINGTON: Kateryna Golizdra has survived six months in legal limbo, so far. She thinks she can hold out another six months, waiting for Donald Trump’s administration to decide the fate of a humanitarian program that allowed some 260,000 people who fled the war in Ukraine to live and work …
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26-11-2025 Machu Picchu, the remains of a 15th Century Inca city, is Peru’s most popular tourist destination and a Unesco world heritage site. Yet a continuing dispute over the buses that take visitors up to the mountain-top site recently saw some 1,400 stranded tourists needing to be evacuated. Cristian Alberto …
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26-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court has agreed to drop criminal charges against billionaire brothers Nitin and Chetan Sandesara if they pay a third of their dues in a $1.6-billion bank fraud, a step that could prompt other offenders to seek similar settlements. After being accused of defaulting …
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26-11-2025 HANOI/ BANGKOK: Heavy rains continue to cause widespread flooding and landslides across Southeast Asia and have claimed several more lives as authorities mobilize to try to help. One person was confirmed to have been killed in Vietnam on Monday, bringing the death toll in the country to 91 people …
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26-11-2025 CAIRO/ GAZA STRIP: A senior delegation from Hamas has met Egypt’s intelligence chief in Cairo to discuss Israel’s breaches of the ceasefire agreement, the group said, as Palestinians in Gaza held funerals for dozens of people killed in recent Israeli attacks. In a statement on Sunday, the group said …
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25-11-2025 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least nine children and a woman have been killed after Pakistani forces bombed a house in the country’s southeastern Khost province, according to Afghan authorities. Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman for the Taliban administration, said on Tuesday that the attack took …
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25-11-2025 BEIJING: China on Friday took its feud with Tokyo over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Taikachi’s recent comments on Taiwan to the United Nations, as tensions between the East Asian neighbors deepened and ties plunged to their lowest since 2023. “If Japan dares to attempt an armed intervention in the …
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