Year: 2025

GAZA CITY: Hamas on Tuesday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that military pressure had helped secure the release of US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander from Gaza a day earlier.…

LONDON: British police arrested a 21-year-old man early Tuesday over suspected arson attacks on two properties linked to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. London’s Metropolitan Police force said the man…

Beijing: China on Monday expressed its support and welcomed the ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan, saying that it is ready to further play a constructive role in realizing a…

BEIJING: China hailed on Monday “substantial progress” with the United States after talks in Geneva on dialing down their trade war yielded dramatic cuts to import tariffs. US President Donald…

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD: India and Pakistan have stepped back from the brink of all-out war, with a nudge from the U.S., but New Delhi’s aspirations as a global diplomatic power now…

NEW DELHI: Occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s puppet chief minister Omar Abdullah has confessed in a television interview that Pakistan has managed to internationalize the Kashmir question. He remarked that the…

KYIV, Ukraine: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said that he expects Moscow to commit to a 30-day ceasefire starting on Monday and that Kyiv was “ready” for direct talks…

NEW DELHI: India cricket board officials were reported to be meeting Sunday to discuss a quick resumption of the IPL, following India and Pakistan agreeing a ceasefire in their deadly…

Top Iranian and U.S. negotiators will resume talks on Sunday to address disputes over Tehran’s nuclear programme, in a push for progress as Washington hardens its stance ahead of U.S.…

GENEVA, Switzerland: Senior US and Chinese officials will meet in Geneva on Saturday, seeking to de-escalate a trade war sparked by President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff rollout and fuelled by…