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21-10-2025 NEW YORK: Huge crowds have taken part in “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump’s policies in cities across the US, including New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles. Thousands packed New York City’s iconic Times Square and streets all around, with people holding signs with slogans …

21-10-2025 DOHA: Hamas intends to maintain security control in Gaza during an interim period, a senior Hamas official told media, adding he could not commit to the group disarming, positions that reflect the difficulties facing U.S. plans to secure an end to the war. Hamas politburo member Mohammed Nazzal also …

21-10-2025 By Ismail Salahuddin As violence against Muslims becomes public spectacle, India’s majoritarian politics has turned hate into entertainment and silence into complicity. NEW DELHI: Every morning in today’s India begins with two parallel news cycles. One, broadcast on television screens, is carefully curated; panel debates on Pakistan, Hindu pride, …

21-10-2025 BAGHDAD: In a statement last month, Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr said his movement would boycott the November elections, hinting he wants to “change the faces and save Iraq”, reportedly his endgame since he withdrew his bloc from parliament in June 2022. He also took aim at political rivals, …

20-10-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA/ CAIRO: Hamas rejected on Sunday a statement from the US State Department in which it cited “credible reports” indicating the Palestinian militant group would imminently violate the ceasefire deal with Israel. Hamas said such allegations were false. The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will remain …

20-10-2025 NEW YORK: Huge crowds have taken part in “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump’s policies in cities across the US, including New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles. Thousands packed New York City’s iconic Times Square and streets all around, with people holding signs with slogans …

20-10-2025 HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA: After serving 43 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam was finally free. New evidence had exonerated him earlier this month of the murder of his former roommate but before he could reach his family’s arms, Vedam was taken into custody …

20-10-2025 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump says two surviving “narco-terrorists” from a semi-submersible vessel destroyed by the US military in the Caribbean will be sent to their home countries of Ecuador and Colombia. “It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United …

20-10-2025 TOKYO: Japan’s governing party and the main opposition are set to form a coalition government, setting the stage for Sanae Takaichi to become the country’s first female prime minister, local media report. Sanae Takaichi, the leader of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Hirofumi Yoshimura, the head of …

20-10-2025 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies DOHA/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire in talks mediated by Qatar and Turkiye following a week of fierce and deadly clashes along their disputed border. Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said early on Sunday that …