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18-12-2025 KHARTOUM/ GAZA CITY: Growing global disorder threatens to deepen humanitarian crises around the world, with Sudan and Palestine facing the greatest risk of all, according to a new report. The pair once again topped the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist, the 2026 version of which was released on …

18-12-2025 LONDON: The world could lose thousands of glaciers each year over the coming decades unless global warming is curbed, leaving only a fraction remaining by the end of the century, scientists warn. A scientific study published on Monday in Nature Climate Change warned that unless governments take action now, …

18-12-2025 OTTAWA: Israel has denied entry to a group of Canadian lawmakers who were seeking to reach the occupied West Bank to hold talks with Palestinian officials and human rights advocates, Canadian civil society groups say. Six members of Canada’s Parliament were trying to reach the West Bank from neighboring …

18-12-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: India’s anti-terrorism agency on Monday charged militant Islamist groups based in Pakistan and six individuals over an April attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir that killed 26 men, and triggered intense fighting between the two countries. The fighting, the worst between the nuclear-armed neighbors …

18-12-2025 THE HAGUE: The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected one of Israel’s legal challenges seeking to block an investigation into its actions in the genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza, dealing a blow to Israel’s efforts to derail the case. In their decision …

18-12-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order labelling fentanyl, and its core precursors, as a “weapon of mass destruction” (WMD), in the latest instance of his administration using increasingly militarized language to justify its operations against drug cartels and smugglers. The announcement …

17-12-2025 NEW YORK: A Google search executive on Thursday pushed back against fears that its AI-powered search will harm web publishers and its advertising business, calling the technology an “expansionary moment” for the internet. Speaking at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York, Robby Stein, vice president of product for …

17-12-2025 CAIRO/ GAZA CITY: Israel’s assassination of a senior Hamas commander threatens the viability of the Gaza ceasefire, the chief negotiator of the militant group said on Sunday, calling on US President Donald Trump to demand Israel comply with the terms of the truce. Thousands of Hamas supporters rallied in …

17-12-2025 PARIS: France will vaccinate 1 million head of cattle in coming weeks against lumpy skin disease, Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard said on Saturday, as farmers blocked highways and dumped manure near public buildings to protest against culls of herds. Several outbreaks of the highly contagious disease prompted authorities to …

17-12-2025 BEIJING/ RIYADH: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday that China has always regarded Saudi Arabia as a priority in its Middle East diplomacy and an important partner in its global diplomatic strategy and is willing to work with Saudi Arabia to elevate bilateral ties to new heights. …