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21-11-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “knew nothing” about the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as he welcomed the kingdom’s de facto ruler to the White House. Trump’s comments appeared to contradict a US intelligence assessment in 2021 which determined the crown …

21-11-2025 BERRUT: Dozens people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health. The drone strike hit a car on Tuesday in the car park of a mosque in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp on …

20-11-2025 KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said yesterday that he will travel to Turkey this week in an attempt to jump-start negotiations on ending Russia’s invasion, which began nearly four years ago. US special envoy Steve Witkoff will join Zelenskyy in Turkey, a senior Turkish official told media, but the …

20-11-2025 LONDON: Britain’s MI5 security service warned lawmakers on Tuesday about attempts by Chinese agents to collect information and influence activity, according to an email sent to lawmakers seen by media, the latest spy threat to the nation’s parliament. The warning comes after prosecutors abandoned the trial of two British …

20-11-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump says he may expand his unprecedented strikes against Latin American drug cartels to include Mexico, media reports. “Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It’s OK with me. I’ve been speaking to Mexico. They know how I stand,” he told reporters at …

20-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ SANGRUR: To combat the worsening air in India’s capital New Delhi, several farmers in the neighboring northern state of Punjab are packing off crop stubble to factories for recycling instead of torching it. Stubble burning every winter is a major contributor to New Delhi being …

20-11-2025 KHARTOUM: The Sudan army is holding on to its last stronghold in West Kordofan as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) pushes to take control of the province east of Darfur. The army said on Sunday it had repelled an attack against its headquarters in the town of Babnusa, …

20-11-2025 MONTREAL: Canadian human rights activists are demanding answers from their government after a former United Nations special rapporteur who investigated Israeli abuses against Palestinians was interrogated at the Canadian border on “national security” grounds. Richard Falk, 95, was stopped at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Thursday and questioned for …

20-11-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump says he will greenlight the sale of advanced F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, signaling a departure in how Washington handles sophisticated weapons transfers to Arab countries. Trump made the announcement on Monday at the White House, just one day before Crown Prince …

19-11-2025 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for Hamas to be expelled from the region, a day after the UN Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war that offers the Palestinian militant group amnesty. Netanyahu publicly endorsed the plan during a White House …