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19-06-2025 KANANASKIS: The leaders of India and Canada held on Tuesday what they called a productive first bilateral meeting since then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused New Delhi in 2023 of involvement in the killing of a Canadian Sikh separatist. Relations have been poor for almost two years but there was …

19-06-2025 SYDNEY: Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday the country would commence negotiations on a security and defence partnership with the European Union and was also hopeful of a “symbolically important” trade deal. Albanese met with the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President …

19-06-2025 JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: Iran and Israel launched new missile strikes at each other on Wednesday as the air war between the two longtime enemies entered a sixth day despite a call from US President Donald Trump for Iran’s unconditional surrender. The Israeli military said two barrages of Iranian missiles were …

18-06-2025 TEHRAN: Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cuts an increasingly lonely figure. Khamenei has seen his main military and security advisers killed by Israeli air strikes, leaving major holes in his inner circle and raising the risk of strategic errors, according to five people familiar with his decision-making …

18-06-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s aviation safety watchdog has asked Air India for the training records of the pilots and dispatcher for the plane that crashed last week as part of its investigation into the incident that killed at least 271 people, government memos showed. The Directorate General of …

18-06-2025 KANANASKIS: President Donald Trump left early from the Group of Seven summit in Canada, to attend to the conflict between Israel and Iran, the White House announced. Spokespeople from the Pentagon and the White House denied that the US military is getting involved. Before his departure, Trump wrote on …

18-06-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 70 people, according to medics, in one of the bloodiest incidents yet in mounting violence as desperate residents struggle for food. Video shared on social media …

18-06-2025 KANANASKIS/ WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said he wanted a “real end” to the nuclear dispute with Iran, and indicated he may send senior American officials to meet with the Islamic Republic as the Israel-Iran air war raged for a fifth straight day. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said …

18-06-2025 MASQAT/ DUBAI: Two oil tankers have collided in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical oil checkpoint just off the coast of Iran. British maritime security monitor Ambrey said that the collision on Tuesday of the Adalynn and the Front Eagle is “not security-related,” despite the proximity of …

18-06-2025 NEW YORK: Social media and video platforms have eclipsed traditional media as news sources in the United States for the first time, a report has found. Fifth-four percent of surveyed Americans used platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and TikTok for news during the previous week, up from 27 percent …