29-08-2025 WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump’s doubling of tariffs on imports from India to as much as 50% took effect as scheduled on Wednesday, dealing a serious blow to ties between the two countries that became strategic partners after the turn of this century. A punitive 25% tariff …
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29-08-2025 ROME: Pope Leo XIV demanded Wednesday that Israel stop the “collective punishment” and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza as he pleaded for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the besieged territory amid preparations by Israel for a new military offensive. Leo was interrupted twice by applause as he …
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29-08-2025 WASHINGTON: The artificial intelligence company Anthropic launched a National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council in efforts to deepen ties with Washington and allied governments as AI becomes increasingly central to defence. The San Francisco-based start-up announced the new panel on Wednesday. The council’s launch underscores AI firms’ growing …
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29-08-2025 LONDON: From Turkiye to Greece, from France to Spain, this summer’s Mediterranean wildfires make one thing clear: Something has changed. These are no longer occasional dry spells or extreme seasons. The so-called sixth-generation fires are fueled by a climatic and social logic deeply embedded in the machinery of global …
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29-08-2025 KHARTOUM: The city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur has become an “epicenter of child suffering”, with starvation, mass displacement, and relentless violence taking a catastrophic toll following nearly 17 months under siege, the United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) has warned. At least 600,000 people, half of them children, …
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29-08-2025 MINNESOTA: Two children aged eight and 10 have been killed and 17 people injured when a gunman opened fire on schoolchildren attending Mass at a Catholic school in the United States, authorities say. The police chief of Minneapolis, Minnesota, said that of the people injured in the morning attack, …
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29-08-2025 GAZA STRIP: Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded 10 deaths “due to famine and malnutrition” over the past 24 hours, including two children, bringing the total number of hunger-related deaths to 313, 119 of whom were children. Israeli forces kill 51 Palestinians since dawn on Wednesday, including 12 waiting for …
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28-08-2025 COPENHAGEN: Denmark has summoned the United States charge d’affaires for talks over Danish intelligence reports that US citizens have been conducting covert influence operations in Greenland, Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The diplomat was summoned on Wednesday after Denmark’s main national broadcaster reported that the government believed that …
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28-08-2025 PARIS/ ANTANANARIVO: France has returned to Madagascar three human skulls kept at a Paris museum for 128 years, after they were looted during the colonial period including one believed to be that of a Madagascan king decapitated by French troops. The skull, presumed to be that of King Toera, …
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28-08-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Indian exporters are bracing for a sharp decline in US orders after trade talks collapsed and Washington confirmed steep new tariffs on the South Asian nation’s goods will take effect from Wednesday, escalating tension between the strategic partners. An additional 25% duty …
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