09-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that New Delhi and Washington still shared “very positive” ties, after US President Donald Trump reaffirmed their personal friendship and downplayed his earlier remarks about “losing India” to China. The exchange comes amid strains after Washington imposed …
Read More »Boko Haram kills 60 in overnight attack on Nigerian village
09-09-2025 ABUJA: The jihadist group Boko Haram has killed more than 60 people in an overnight attack in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno State, local officials say. On Friday night militants struck the village of Darul Jamal, home to a military base on the Nigeria-Cameroon border, killing at least five soldiers. The …
Read More »Israeli attacks on school & tents kill dozens in Gaza
09-09-2025 GAZA CITY: Israeli forces continue to bombard Gaza, killing at least 17 people in overnight strikes on a school, tents and a home. Families and supporters of Israeli captives take to the streets, demanding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sign a deal to secure the release of their loved …
Read More »Tensions mount as Trump threatens crackdown in Chicago
09-09-2025 WASHINGTON: Tensions between President Trump and Illinois leaders escalated on Saturday when the White House posted an image on social media depicting Trump with helicopters, billowing flames and the Chicago skyline. “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” read the post, titled “Chipocalypse Now,” …
Read More »Irfaan Ali reelected as oil rich Guyana’s President
09-09-2025 GEORGETOWN: Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali has been reelected for a second term, according to the country’s electoral body, after a vote that gave his party a mandate to manage the South American nation’s newfound oil riches amid a territorial dispute with Venezuela. The elections commission said in a statement …
Read More »Mass arrests at Palestine Action rally outside UK Parliament
09-09-2025 LONDON: London police have arrested more than 425 protesters during violent clashes at a rally calling on the United Kingdom’s government to lift a ban on the Palestine Action group. Defend Our Juries, the campaign group that organized the rally on Saturday, said about 1,500 people participated in the …
Read More »14 dead after protests against Nepal social media ban
08-09-2025 KATHMANDU: At least 14 people have been killed and dozens injured in Nepal after demonstrations against a government social media ban led to clashes between protesters and security forces. Thousands heeded a call by demonstrators describing themselves as Generation Z to gather near the parliament building in Kathmandu over …
Read More »India & Russia appear ‘lost’ to ‘darkest China’: Trump
08-09-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Friday said India and Russia seem to have been “lost” to China after their leaders met with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, expressing his annoyance at New Delhi and Moscow as Beijing pushes a new world order. “Looks like we’ve lost India …
Read More »Sudan paramilitaries accused of crimes against humanity
08-09-2025 KHARTOUM: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have allegedly committed numerous crimes against humanity during their siege of the city of el-Fasher in Darfur, UN investigators say. The report by the UN Fact-Finding Mission accuses the group of “murder, torture, enslavement, rape, sexual slavery, sexual violence, forced displacement and …
Read More »Google fined €2.95bn for abusing advertising dominance
08-09-2025 BRUSSELS: Google has been fined €2.95bn (£2.5bn) by the EU for allegedly abusing its power in the ad tech sector, the technology which determines which adverts should be placed online and where. The European Commission said on Friday the tech giant had breached competition laws by favoring its own …
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