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27-05-2025 HONG KONG/ LONDON: Hong Kong’s Education Bureau said that it had called on universities in the Chinese territory to attract top talent following a ban on Harvard University enrolling foreign students. US President Donald Trump’s administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students and is forcing current foreign …

27-05-2025 KINSHASA: Officials from the Democratic Republic of Congo are optimistic they can reach a deal with Washington next month to secure US investment in critical minerals alongside support to end a Rwandan-backed rebellion in the country’s east, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Congolese minerals such as tungsten, tantalum …

27-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India will push the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global financial crime watchdog, to add arch-rival Pakistan back to its “grey list” and oppose upcoming World Bank funding to Islamabad, a top government source in New Delhi said on Friday. India announced a slew …

27-05-2025 GAZA STRIP/ CAIRO: Israeli military strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including a senior rescue service official and a journalist, local health authorities said. The latest deaths in the Israeli campaign resulted from separate Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in the south, Jabalia …

27-05-2025 SYDNEY: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced the start of a cleanup operation in eastern Australia after record-breaking floods killed five people and stranded tens of thousands of people. Damage assessments are under way for the coastal region of New South Wales in the east, where at least 10,000 …

27-05-2025 ISTANBUL: Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Istanbul, weeks after a military conflict between Islamabad and New Delhi. The two countries would strive to boost cooperation, particularly in defence, energy and transportation, Erdogan’s office said on Sunday. Erdogan told Sharif …

27-05-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces pound Gaza, killing 19 at a school-turned-shelter as well as two Red Cross workers, a journalist and several children, including Gaza’s youngest influencer Yaqeen Hammad, 11. Spain urges the world to consider sanctions on Israel as it hosts foreign ministers from 20 European and Arab …

26-05-2025 QUITO: Daniel Noboa, Ecuador’s youngest-ever president and heir to a prominent banana-exporting fortune, has been sworn in for his first full term in office, pledging to intensify his government’s battle against powerful drug gangs while reviving the struggling economy. In a ceremony at the National Assembly in Quito on …

27-05-2025 DUBAI/ TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Iranian and US delegations wrapped up a fifth round of talks in Rome on Friday and signs of some limited progress emerged in the negotiations aimed at resolving a decades-long dispute over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Despite both Washington and Tehran taking a tough stance in public …

26-05-2025 JAKARTA/ BEIJING: China stands ready to work with Indonesia to continuously enrich the China-Indonesia community with a shared future and jointly pursue the path of modernization, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Saturday. Li made the remarks in a written statement when he arrived for an official visit to …