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07-05-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI/ MUZAFFARABAD: Tensions escalate in India and Pakistan, after India launches missile strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Pakistan says six locations were attacked and claims to have shot down five Indian fighter jets, India has not confirmed this. Pakistan says 26 people …

07-05-2025 LONDON/ NEW DELHI: The UK and India have agreed a trade deal that will make it easier for UK firms to export whisky, cars and other products to India, and cut taxes on India’s clothing and footwear exports. The UK government said the “landmark” agreement, which took three years …

07-05-2025 BERLIN: German conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor by parliament on Tuesday in a second round of voting after a humiliating and unprecedented defeat on the first attempt, getting his coalition government off to a weak start. Merz, 69, who led his conservatives to a federal election victory …

07-05-2025 THE HAGUE/ DUBAI: The top United Nations court has dismissed a case brought by Sudan accusing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of breaching the UN Genocide Convention by arming and funding the rebel paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan’s deadly civil war. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) said …

07-05-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The pace at 64-year-old Thirunavkarsu’s spinning mill in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state has noticeably slowed down. The viscose yarn, a popular material that goes into making woven garments, he produces, now sits in storage, as orders from local factories have dropped nearly …

07-05-2025 JERUSALEM/ SANA’A/ BEIRUT/ GAZA: Israel attacked Yemen, Lebanon and Syria, as well as Gaza, where air strikes killed at least 54 people on Monday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Gaza’s more than 2 million people “will be moved” in a new ground offensive as Israel’s total blockade on …

07-05-2025 MOSCOW: Russia says Ukraine has launched an overnight drone attack targeting Moscow for the second night in a row. All four of the capital’s major airports have been closed temporarily to ensure safety, Russia’s aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said on Telegram. Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said on social media at …

07-05-2025 WASHINGTON: I ran from the White House briefing room, past the portico entrance of the West Wing to our camera position on the lawn and flung on an ear piece connecting me to the studio. A moment later the presenter asked me about the comments we had just heard …

06-05-2025 LONDON: British counter-terrorism police have arrested eight men including seven Iranians in two separate operations, officers said, in what the interior minister called some of the biggest investigations of their kind in recent years. Five men, four of them Iranian nationals, were arrested on Saturday over a suspected plot …

06-05-2025 KIGALI/ NAIROBI: Rwanda is in the early stages of talks to receive immigrants deported from the United States, Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said on television late on Sunday. Rwanda has in recent years positioned itself as a destination country for migrants that Western countries would like to remove, …