Mourners attend the funeral of Palestinians killed on Wednesday in what the Gaza Health Ministry described as an Israeli airstrike on a house, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, June 26, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli gunfire and airstrikes killed at least 21 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday (June 26, 2025), local…
Dubai is full of tales of success, transformation, and survival but few are more universally inspiring than Jason Kwao’s. From humble beginnings in the UK working as a pizza delivery boy to becoming a self-made business owner in the UAE, Jason’s story exemplifies the strength of vision, the ability to adapt, and sheer grit. With…
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro raises his fist after signing the text of the labor reform, made by his government, in Bogota, Colombia, on June 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Colombian President Gustavo Petro signed into law on Wednesday (June 25, 2025) a controversial labour overhaul with the potential to profoundly shift the balance of…
TAL MARDIKH: Syrian architect Abdel Aziz al Mohammed could barely recognise his war ravaged village when he returned after years away. Now, his meticulous documentation of the damage using a drone helps to rebuild it.“When I first came back, I was shocked by the extent of the destruction,” said Mohammed, 34.Walking through his devastated village…
New Delhi: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump held a significant meeting on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in The Hague, discussing critical defense issues and military cooperation. Their conversation focused on strengthening Ukraine’s air defense systems amid continued Russian missile and drone strikes. Zelenskyy expressed Ukraine’s readiness to purchase US-made air…
HARRISBURG: President Donald Trump will control the so called “golden share” that’s part of the national security agreement under which he allowed Japan based Nippon steel to buy out iconic American steelmaker US Steel, according to disclosures with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.The provision gives the president the power to appoint a board member…
Story so far: In a rare show of condemnation, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), on June 16, 2025, stated that the Pahalgam terror “could not occur without money and the means to move funds between terrorist supporters”. FATF’s has released such a statement only twice in this decade — for the Paris terror attack…
Trump’s latest rejection of intelligence assessments reflects long distrust of spy agencies (Image: AP) WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump‘s fights with the intelligence community were a running theme of his first term, as he raged against an investigation into his campaign’s alleged links to Russia. Now, a sequel is playing out as Trump battles to shape…
In a sharp escalation of tensions with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has threatened to take legal action against SpaceX over rocket debris and environmental contamination near the U.S.-Mexico border. The warning comes after a SpaceX Starship rocket exploded during a ground test at the company’s Starbase site in South Texas, causing concern…
Bundles of cocaine are displayed, as a part of high seas drug seizures by the Salvadoran Naval Force, presented during a press conference at a base in San Luis la Herradura, El Salvador June 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The global cocaine trade keeps setting new records, with cocaine the world’s fastest-growing illicit drug…
New Delhi: Amid reports that the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites had caused minimal damage to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, the Central Intelligence Agency, citing a “body of credible intelligence”, confirmed that the strikes by Washington had “severely damaged” Tehran’s key nuclear facilities and that it would take years to rebuild those structures. In…
ABUJA: Under the din of traffic from the highway bridge that cuts over his fields, Bala Haruna inspects corn, cassava and okra on his family farm.A pump pulls up water from a nearby stream and is diverted through trenches dug through cropland wedged between four-lane roads — fields which were here long before the nearby…
‘Bronx Girl’ or Yorktown Grad? NY Republican challenges AOC’s suburban roots with yearbook photo after Trump clash A latest social media fracas between President Donald Trump and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has drawn additional scrutiny after a New York state lawmaker challenged the congresswoman’s claims about her upbringing.The confrontation erupted when Ocasio-Cortez criticized Trump’s weekend strikes…
The ferry was late, but not because of the usual traffic. Sydney commuters watched from an idling boat this month as humpback whales the size of buses surfaced nearby, halting the vessel’s passage across the harbour. The curious mammals seemed to be watching them back. In June and July, it’s not uncommon for whales to…
US President Donald Trump (Pic credit: AP) Donald Trump’s ambitious spending cut and border security package – the “big, beautiful bill” – is estimated to inject around $150 billion into the mass deportation agenda of the US leader in the four years of his second and final term – 15 times the current annual budget…
New Delhi: US President Donald Trump launched a scathing attack on Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old Democratic socialist who won the New York City mayoral primary election. Mamdani secured 43.5% of the vote with 90% of ballots counted, defeating former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Trump took to his Truth Social platform, labeling Mamdani a “100% Communist…
