US, Canada fail to reach trade pact to avert Trump tariffs
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Morocco: Migrants caught between Ceuta dreams and reality
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TikTok to pay $400 mn settlement in US children's privacy case
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US, Iran keep up hostile rhetoric ahead of new sanctions
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Ukraine hits Russian oil refinery in Perm
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El Nino to be ‘biggest for over a century’
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Europe
US sanctions: ICC head warns against ‘demise of ‘int’l rule of law’
22 August 2026
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Move to isolate Iran: How China, Russia could hobble Trump’s plans
22 August 2026
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Ex-Pak PM taken back to jail after hospital checks
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South Asia
Israel ‘change’ coalition poised to end ‘King Bibi’ era
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday faced the likely end of his 12-year rule as a fragile alliance of his political enemies hoped to oust him in a parliament vote and form a new government.
13 June 2021
Iran nuke talks resume
Indirect talks between Tehran and Washington on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal resumed in Vienna as the European Union said negotiations
13 June 2021
13 killed as artillery hits Syria hospital
At least 13 people were killed and several wounded in two separate artillery attacks on the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, local medical
13 June 2021
Erdogan says Turkey has raised forex swap deal with China to $6 bln
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey's central bank had agreed with China to increase an existing currency swap facility to $6 billion from $2.4 billion, in a move that could boost foreign reserves.
13 June 2021
Biden suggests 'autocrat' Putin's Russia might be weaker than it seems
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday that "autocrat" Vladimir Putin was right to say that relations were at their lowest point in years though he suggested that Russia might be weaker than it seemed and that Moscow had overreached in the Middle East.
13 June 2021
Erdogan says he and Biden must leave troubles behind at NATO meeting
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said that he and U.S. President Joe Biden must use a Monday meeting to move on from past troubles, including a bitter dispute over Turkey's purchase of Russian S-400 missiles.
13 June 2021
G7 agrees 1 billion COVID vaccine donation
Group of Seven countries will provide 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses over the next year and work with the private sector, the G20 and other countries to increase the contribution over months to come, according to an almost finalised draft of the communique.
13 June 2021
China cautions G7: 'small' groups don't rule the world
China on Sunday pointedly cautioned Group of Seven leaders that the days when "small" groups of countries decided the fate of the world was long gone, hitting back at the world's richest democracies which have sought a unified position over Beijing.
13 June 2021
Biden urges G-7 leaders to call out and compete with China
Leaders of the world’s largest economies unveiled an infrastructure plan Saturday for the developing world to compete with China’s global initiatives, but there was no immediate consensus on how forcefully to call out Beijing over human rights abuses.
12 June 2021
Lawmakers propose antitrust overhaul
US lawmakers unveiled sweeping antitrust measures Friday aimed at tempering the dominance of Big Tech firms including Apple and Facebook, in
12 June 2021
Allegation sparks abuse of power claims against Trump
Democrats erupted in outrage Friday over news that Donald Trump’s Justice Department secretly surveilled lawmakers probing possible collusion with Russia, reaping the phone records of top political foes in what they called an unprecedented abuse of power.
12 June 2021
Pulitzer Board honors teen who filmed Floyd murder
The Pulitzer Prize Board awarded a “special citation” on Friday to the teenager whose video of the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer sparked worldwide protests against racial injustice.
12 June 2021
‘Whatever it takes’
Britain will do “whatever it takes” to protect its territorial integrity in a trade dispute with the European Union, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday, threatening emergency measures if no solution was found.
12 June 2021
G7 outlines pandemic pact
Britain yesterday acclaimed a “historic” action plan by G7 nations to prevent future pandemics, as the elite group showcased US-led unity against China and Russia at its first in-person summit in almost two years.
12 June 2021
Socialism to marry Mamata
Even little Marxism won’t miss out when Socialism gets married in southern India this weekend with his big brothers Communism and Leninism in attendance.
12 June 2021
Blasts kill at least 7 in Kabul
Blasts hit two buses in western Kabul yesterday, killing at least seven people, according to police.
12 June 2021
Junta accuses ethnic armies
Myanmar’s junta yesterday accused some of the country’s two dozen ethnic armed groups of providing training to its opponents to carry out a wave of bombings that it said had targeted public buildings including schools.
12 June 2021
UK PM voices ‘serious concern’
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterdayexpressed “serious concern” about rising infections of the Delta variant of coronavirus, reinforcing suggestions that he is set to delay lifting England’s last remaining lockdown curbs.
12 June 2021
Coronavirus surge: Moscow mayor announces ‘non-working week’
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin yesterday announced a “non-working” week in the Russian capital, with non-essential workers told to stay home, as Covid-19 cases hit a six-month high.
12 June 2021
Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow released
Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow described prison as “agony” yesterday after she was released on the second anniversary of the city’s huge
12 June 2021