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16-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: The Indian government’s plan requiring smartphone makers to share source code as part of a raft of new security measures has drawn criticism from privacy advocates and technology experts over fears of heightened surveillance. Companies including Apple, opens new tab and Samsung, opens new …

16-01-2026 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has said the US will take “very strong action” against Iran if it executes protesters, as rights groups say more than 2,400 anti-government demonstrators have been killed in a violent crackdown by Iranian authorities. Relatives of 26-year-old Erfan Soltani, who was detained last week, told …

15-01-2026 SEOUL: Prosecutors have asked for South Korea’s former president Yoon Suk Yeol to be handed a death sentence if he is found guilty over his botched attempt to impose martial law. A court in Seoul heard closing arguments in Yoon’s trial, in which he was accused of being the …

15-01-2026 WASHINGTON: The United States has designated Muslim Brotherhood organizations in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan as “terrorist” groups, the administration of President Donald Trump announces, as Washington intensifies its crackdown on Israel’s rivals across the world. The decision on Tuesday came weeks after Trump issued an executive order directing his …

15-01-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: Hate speech against minorities including Muslims and Christians in India rose by 13% in 2025, with most incidents occurring in states governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, a Washington-based research group said on Tuesday. India Hate Lab documented 1,318 …

15-01-2026 LONDON: The BBC will file a motion to dismiss Donald Trump’s lawsuit over how his 6 January 2021 speech was edited in a Panorama documentary. The US president filed a $5bn (£3.7bn) lawsuit in a Florida court last month, accusing the BBC of defamation and of violating a trade …

15-01-2026 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has been briefed on a wide range of covert and military tools for use in Iran, two Department of Defense officials told the BBC’s US partner, CBS News. Long-range missile strikes remain an option for a potential US intervention but Pentagon officials have also presented …

15-01-2026 NEW YORK: A very cold start to 2025 and the growing power demands of data centers and cryptocurrencies saw US emissions of planet-warming gases rise for the first time in three years, a new analysis shows. Last year homes burned more gas for heating while the use of coal …

15-01-2026 NEW YORK/ LONDON: Oil prices rose 2% on Friday on growing supply worries linked to intensifying protests in oil-producing Iran and an escalation of attacks in Russia’s war in Ukraine. Brent futures settled $1.35, or 2.18%, higher to $63.34 per barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was …

14-01-2026 HELSINKI: Thousands of tourists have been stranded in Finland’s Lapland as a severe cold spell has grounded flights out of one of its airports. Departures from Lapland’s Kittila airport that would have ferried winter travelers back to places like London, Bristol, Manchester, Paris and Amsterdam were all cancelled on …