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16-05-2025 NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: When President Donald Trump announced in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that he would lift all sanctions on Syria, the decision, which will boost a country devastated by 13 years of war, took many in the region by surprise. It also caught some in his own administration …

16-05-2025 DOHA: Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has said that a series of recent Israeli attacks on Gaza show that Israel is not interested in ending the war. In an interview with the US news outlet CNN on Wednesday, Al Thani said that he had hoped …

16-05-2025 TEHRAN: Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country would not “bow to any bully” in response to United States President Donald Trump’s criticism of Tehran during his ongoing three-day Gulf tour. “He (Trump) thinks he can come here, chant slogans, and scare us. For us, martyrdom is far sweeter …

16-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: On May 12, two days after the announcement of a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi finally addressed the nation. He stated that the Indian army had only “paused” military action and Operation Sindoor, launched in the aftermath of the April …

16-05-2025 WASHINGTON: A federal judge has ordered Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri released from immigration detention, in the latest victory for US visa holders targeted by the administration of President Donald Trump for pro-Palestine stances or advocacy. The ruling on Wednesday by US District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles comes …

16-05-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 84 people, medical sources told media, as indirect ceasefire talks continue in Qatar. At least 50 people were killed in Israeli attacks on northern Gaza, including in Jabalia refugee camp, since the early hours of Wednesday, according to medical …

16-05-2025 DOHA/ DAMASCUS: President Trump was greeted with more pomp and ceremony as he arrived in Qatar on the second stop of his Middle East tour after departing Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. The White House said that Trump and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani signed agreements that …

15-05-2025 CAIRO: Israeli military strikes killed at least 70 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities said, in an intensification of the bombardment as US President Donald Trump visits the Middle East. Medics said most of the dead, including women and children, were killed in a barrage …

15-05-2025 VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo XIV, the first American to head the global Catholic Church, pledged on Wednesday to make “every effort” for peace and offered the Vatican as a mediator in global conflicts, saying war was “never inevitable”. Leo, who was elected last week to succeed the late Pope …

15-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India said on Wednesday that it rejects China’s move to rename places in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh where the Asian neighbors share a border, adding that the Himalayan territory was an integral part of India. Beijing has renamed places in Arunachal Pradesh in …