UN expert urges rejection of election ‘fraud’

Elections being planned by Myanmar’s ruling junta are a ploy to feign legitimacy and should be rejected by the international community as a “fraud”, a UN expert said yesterday.
25 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Gaza ceasefire talks ‘intensified’

A senior Hamas official told AFP yesterday that talks for a Gaza ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group “intensified in recent hours” with mediator countries.
25 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Trump plays nice as NATO eyes 'historic' spending hike

Everything has been carefully choreographed at the gathering in The Hague to keep the volatile US president on board
25 June 2025, 10:09 AM

Trump says China can buy Iranian oil, but urges it to purchase US crude

Trump was drawing attention to no attempts by Iran so far to close the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers
25 June 2025, 04:49 AM

Zohran Mamdani stuns ex-governor in NYC mayoral primary

Mamdani, meanwhile, is backed by the Democratic Socialists of America
25 June 2025, 03:29 AM

Child vaccine coverage faltering, threatening millions: study

Efforts to vaccinate children are faltering due to economic inequality, Covid-era disruptions and misinformation
25 June 2025, 03:02 AM

Trump whirlwind to test NATO summit unity

Every precaution is in place to avoid a Trump blow-up at the Hague summit, from giving him credit for a historic spending deal to keeping the meeting short and sweet.
25 June 2025, 03:00 AM

Georgia arrests celebrated poet, jails opposition leader

Georgia arrested the country’s most celebrated poet yesterday and sentenced an opposition leader to several months in prison, intensifying a crackdown on dissent under the Georgian Dream party.
24 June 2025, 18:22 PM

UN estimates 2.5m refugees will need resettling in 2026

An estimated 2.5 million refugees worldwide will need to be resettled next year, the UN said yesterday, at a time when the United States but also other nations are shrinking resettlement access.
24 June 2025, 18:22 PM

US top court allows 3rd country deportations to resume

A divided US Supreme Court paved the way on Monday for the Trump administration to resume deportations of undocumented migrants to countries that are not their own.
24 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Iran working to restore nuke programme

Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, has said the country is evaluating the damage inflicted on its nuclear programme and planning to rehabilitate it.
24 June 2025, 18:00 PM

India defence minister heads to China summit

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will travel to China this week for talks with his regional counterparts, New Delhi said yesterday.
24 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Finland hardens Nato’s northern frontier

At a shooting range 10 miles from the Russian border, Finnish army reservist Janne Latto opened the trunk of his car and unpacked a small surveillance drone and controller, equipment he sees as vital for any future conflict with Finland’s neighbour.
24 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Trump claims a ‘forever’ peace in land of forever wars

So much for the quagmire. Donald Trump seems to have emerged from the worst crisis in America’s estrangement with Iran’s Islamic Republic with a win.
24 June 2025, 18:00 PM

US judge blocks Trump plan to close Harvard's doors to international students

Trump signed the proclamation after his administration had already frozen billions of dollars in funding to the oldest and wealthiest US university, threatened Harvard's tax-exempt status and launched several investigations into the school.
24 June 2025, 06:42 AM

Won’t let terror ‘drag Syria back to instability’

Turkey will not allow extremists to drag Syria back into chaos and instability, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday after a suicide attack killed 22 at a Damascus church.
23 June 2025, 18:00 PM

US military pulled back into Middle East wars

The US strikes on nuclear sites in Iran are an extraordinary turn for a military that was supposed to be moving on from two decades of forever wars in the Middle East, and they put the United States back on war footing.
23 June 2025, 18:00 PM

India arrests 2 for harbouring J&K attackers

New Delhi’s counter-terrorism agency said yesterday it has arrested two men in India-administered Kashmir for allegedly harbouring Pakistani gunmen behind a deadly attack on civilians that sparked a days-long conflict between the two countries.
22 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Trump gambles on force over diplomacy

For nearly a half-century the United States has squabbled with Iran’s Islamic Republic but the conflict has largely been left in the shadows, with US policymakers believing, often reluctantly, that diplomacy was preferable.
22 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Authorities step up security across US

US federal authorities and leaders in several major US cities and states are increasing security measures and monitoring for potential threats after US strikes on key Iranian nuclear facilities.
22 June 2025, 18:00 PM