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14-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Indian police are investigating if there is a link between this week’s car blast in Delhi and the earlier arrest of a group of seven men from the restive Kashmir region with arms and bomb-making material, three sources familiar with the probe said on …

14-11-2025 TRIPOLI: Forty-two migrants, including 29 from Sudan, eight from Somalia, three from Cameroon and two from Nigeria, have been missing at sea and presumed dead since their boat overturned off the coast of Libya, according to the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM). Their rubber vessel, packed with …

14-11-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ KABUL: Nine (09) in ten (10) families in Afghanistan are going hungry or falling into debt as millions of new returnees stretch resources in poverty-stricken areas in the east and north, according to the United Nations. Taliban-controlled Afghanistan battered by aid cuts, sanctions and repeated natural disasters, …

14-11-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn over an edited clip that has plunged the broadcaster into a public relations crisis and prompted the resignations of two top executives. In a letter sent to the BBC, Trump’s legal team has demanded the …

14-11-2025 CANBERRA: Australia and Indonesia say they are close to signing a “watershed” defence treaty that will upgrade their already close collaboration on security issues. The treaty was approved on Wednesday by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, who is on his first state visit to …

13-11-2025 LONDON: A woman, said by police to have bought cryptocurrency now worth billions of pounds using funds stolen from thousands of Chinese pensioners, is due to be sentenced this week for money laundering. After fleeing China, she moved to a mansion in Hampstead, north London. The Metropolitan Police raided …

13-11-2025 WASHINGTON/ DAMASCUS: Syria has signed up to join the international coalition led by the United States to combat the ISIL (ISIS) armed group. The announcement, made by Syrian Information Minister Hamza al-Mustafa and US officials, came shortly after Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in Washington and was welcomed at …

13-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian police on Tuesday launched an investigation into a deadly car blast near the historic Red Fort in the heart of the Indian capital that killed at least eight people. In the aftermath of the blast, which happened Monday afternoon on a bustling street, authorities …

13-11-2025 NEW YORK: Muslim voters in the United States overwhelmingly favored Democratic candidates in last week’s elections, amid mounting anger at President Donald Trump’s policies, a new exit poll suggests. The survey, released by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Monday, shows 97 percent of Muslim voters in New …

13-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Police in the Indian capital territory of Delhi have invoked an ‘anti-terror’ law as they probe a deadly car explosion near the historic Red Fort on Monday in which at least nine people were killed, local media reported. Indian television channels reported that at least …