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22-08-2025 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped up his government’s bitter diplomatic dispute with Australia, claiming that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s legacy has been irrevocably blackened by his “weakness” towards Hamas. In an interview with Sky News Australia scheduled to air on Thursday night, Netanyahu said Albanese’s …

22-08-2025 WASHINGTON: A group of 17 US senators has written to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, condemning an Israeli attack last week that killed several Al Jazeera journalists, and urging the US to pressure Israel to grant foreign media access to Gaza and protect journalists there. The letter published …

22-08-2025 MOSCOW/ KYIV: Russia has launched 574 drones and 40 missiles on Ukraine in one of the heaviest bombardments in weeks, Ukrainian officials say. One person was killed in a drone and missile strike on the western city of Lviv, while 15 others were reported wounded in an attack on …

22-08-2025 GAZA CITY: At least 81 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israeli attacks and forced starvation since dawn as the Israeli military said it had begun the first stages of its planned assault to seize the enclave’s largest urban centre, Gaza City, where close to a million people …

22-08-2025 MOSCOW: Russia has warned that attempting to resolve security issues relating to Ukraine without the participation of Moscow is a “road to nowhere”, days after European leaders met United States President Donald Trump to discuss security guarantees for Kyiv. “We cannot agree with the fact that now it is …

22-08-2025 WASHINGTON: The United States has announced a new round of sanctions targeting members of the International Criminal Court, the latest instance of a pressure campaign against the court that previously issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders over alleged war crimes in Gaza. In a statement on Wednesday, US Secretary …

21-08-2025 NASSAU: HISPANIOLA: Hurricane Erin slowly moved northward on Tuesday, triggering rough surf and dangerous rip currents along the East Coast that have already resulted in dozens of water rescues, swimming bans, and beach closures across the region. Hundreds of thousands of beach-going tourists were keeping a watchful eye on …

21-08-2025 NEW DELHI/ GIGHA: First announced in December 2018 and completed in May this year, the Digha temple has been pitched by Banerjee and her governing Trinamool Congress (TMC) party as West Bengal’s alternative to the more popular Jagannath Temple in neighboring Odisha state’s Puri town, about 350km (217 miles) …

21-08-2025 GAZA STRIP: At least 18,885 children are among the more than 62,000 Palestinians killed by Israel since the start of its genocidal war in Gaza nearly two years ago, Gaza’s Government Media Office has said. The staggering, grim toll comes as the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, …

21-08-2025 WASHINGTON: The State Department has revoked more than 6,000 international student visas because of violations of US law and overstays, the department told media. The agency said the “vast majority” of the violations were assault, driving under the influence (DUI), burglary and “support for terrorism”. The move comes as …