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20-04-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s administration could be held in criminal contempt of court for disobeying an order to stop the deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members who could not challenge their deportation, federal judge James Boasberg said on Wednesday. Boasberg has given the US government one week to …

20-04-2025 By SJA Jafri KARACHI: Police in Pakistan have made dozens of arrests following a string of protests targeting KFC branches across the country which led to one man being killed. Protesters, angry at the war in Gaza, have been urging a boycott of the chain, claiming it’s a symbol …

20-04-2025 ISTANBUL: A trial of nearly 200 people, among them students and journalists, arrested over Turkiye’s biggest protests in more than a decade opened in Istanbul on Friday. In the dock are 189 suspects who were rounded up in a government crackdown on the protests, which erupted following the March …

19-04-2025 NEW YORK: The 2025 World Press Photo of the Year has been awarded to Samar Abu Elouf, a Doha-based Palestinian photographer, for her poignant image of Mahmoud Ajjour, a young boy severely injured while fleeing an Israeli attack in Gaza. Captured for The New York Times newspaper, the photograph …

19-04-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India is planning to ease its nuclear liability laws to cap accident-related penalties on equipment suppliers, three government sources said, in a move mainly to attract US firms that have been holding back due to the risk of unlimited exposure. The proposal by Prime Minister …

19-04-2025 MOSCOW: Russia’s Supreme Court has suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than 20 years as “a terrorist organization”. The latest move is aimed at normalizing ties with the de facto rulers of Afghanistan. Thursday’s ruling prompted by a request from the prosecutor general …

19-04-2025 PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron has hosted senior United States officials in Paris for talks on ending the war in Ukraine, as Kyiv’s allies in Europe seek to play a larger role in stalled efforts to end the conflict amid tensions with Washington. Speaking after he hosted US Secretary …

19-04-2025 SANA’A: Air strikes by the United States on Yemen’s Ras Isa oil port have killed at least 58 people in what is one of the deadliest attacks on the country by US forces, Houthi-affiliated media report. Al Masirah TV said the strikes on Thursday also wounded 126 people, citing …

19-04-2025 GUANTANAMO BAY: The US has dismantled large parts of a camp built to house migrants at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, satellite images reviewed by media. President Donald Trump ordered the existing facility in Cuba be expanded to hold 30,000 migrants shortly after taking office in January. However, only …

19-04-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ KABUL: Half a million weapons obtained by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been lost, sold or smuggled to militant groups, sources told media with the UN believing that some have fallen into the hands of al-Qaeda affiliates. The Taliban took control of around one million weapons and …