15-12-2025 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: United States forces raided a cargo ship travelling from China to Iran last month, according to the Wall Street Journal, in the latest reported instance of increasingly aggressive maritime tactics by the administration of US President Donald Trump. Unnamed officials told the newspaper that US military personnel …
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15-12-2025 NEW YORK: A New York Times reporter told Jeffrey Epstein that he could write an article that would define the financier on his own terms as he faced allegations of sexually abusing minors in the months leading up to his 2008 conviction, newly uncovered emails reveal. After a negative …
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15-12-2025 GAZA STRIP: Storm Byron has swept across the Gaza Strip, killing dozens people and injuring others as harsh winds, relentless rain and collapsing structures crush families already displaced by Israel’s devastating assault on the enclave, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Interior and National Security. The ministry said five people …
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15-12-2025 WASHINGTON. BANGKOK: US President Donald Trump has said the prime ministers of Thailand and Cambodia will halt fighting “effective this evening”. Trump made the announcement after telephone conversations with the two leaders following deadly border clashes in recent days which have left at least 20 people dead and half …
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15-12-2025 TEHRAN: Iranian security forces have “violently arrested” Nobel Peace Prize winner and women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi, her foundation has said. The Narges Foundation said Ms Mohammadi, 53, was detained in the eastern city of Mashhad, along with other activists. The Nobel Committee said it was “deeply concerned by …
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15-12-2025 BERLIN: Germany has accused Russia of a cyber-attack on air traffic control and attempted electoral interference, and summoned the Russian ambassador. A foreign ministry spokesman said Russian military intelligence was behind a “cyber-attack against German air traffic control in August 2024”. The spokesman also accused Russia of seeking to …
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14-12-2025 PARIS: Angry French farmers are calling for more protests over the government-backed slaughter of cattle herds affected by so-called Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD). On Thursday there were clashes between riot police and demonstrators in the southern Ariege department, after vets were called in to destroy potentially contaminated cattle at …
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14-12-2025 TOKYO: The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has lifted a tsunami advisory for northern Japan’s Pacific coast that had been issued after an earthquake shook the region, national broadcaster NHK reported, days after a larger tremor injured at least 50 people. The magnitude 6.7 quake struck on Friday off the …
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14-12-2025 DHAKA: Bangladesh will hold national elections on Feb. 12, its chief election commissioner has announced, setting the timeline for the nation’s first vote since a student-led uprising that ousted long-serving Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Hasina, whose Awami League party-led government was marred by allegations of human rights violations, rigged …
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14-12-2025 GAZA STRIP: In the large displacement camps of Gaza, rows upon rows of makeshift tents blanket debris, empty lots and what remains of flattened neighborhoods. With Storm Byron descending upon the enclave, a sense of terror has seized a population already exhausted from two years of Israel’s genocidal war …
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