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Iran deal won’t allow ‘any’ uranium enrichment: Trump

US President Donald Trump on Monday ruled out allowing Iran to enrich uranium under any nuclear deal between the foes -- as Tehran defended what it said was its “peaceful” pursuit of fuel for power generation.
3 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Trump, Xi will 'likely' talk this week: White House

Asked about the statement, a spokesman for China's foreign ministry said Beijing had "no information to provide"
3 June 2025, 08:47 AM

Polish nationalist Nawrocki wins presidency in setback for pro-EU government

Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland's presidential election, results showed on Monday, delivering a big blow to the centrist government's efforts to cement Warsaw's pro-European orientation
3 June 2025, 03:38 AM

Cambodia to file complaint with ICJ over Thai border dispute

Cambodia will file a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over border disputes with Thailand, Prime Minister Hun Manet said yesterday, after a Cambodian soldier was killed in a recent frontier clash.
2 June 2025, 18:08 PM

Massive plume of ash, gas spews from Italy’s Mt Etna

A huge plume of ash, gas and rock spewed forth yesterday from Italy’s Mount Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano, but authorities said there was no current danger to the population.
2 June 2025, 18:08 PM

S Africa re-opens inquiry into deaths of apartheid-era activists

A South African court yesterday opened an inquest into the murders 40 years ago of four anti-apartheid activists by a police hit squad in one of the most notorious atrocities of the apartheid era.
2 June 2025, 18:05 PM

Gunmen kill 25 in restive central Nigeria state

Gunmen killed 25 people in two attacks across north-central Nigeria’s Benue state over the weekend, local authorities told AFP yesterday, the latest violence in a region known for deadly land disputes and reprisals.
2 June 2025, 18:05 PM

Hajj pilgrims gather in Makkah under desert sun

More than a million Muslim pilgrims poured into the holy city of Makkah ahead of the annual hajj, with authorities vowing to hold a safer pilgrimage amid searing desert heat and a massive crackdown on illegal visitors.
2 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Adani under new scrutiny from US prosecutors

US prosecutors are investigating whether Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s companies imported Iranian liquefied petroleum gas into India through their Mundra port, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.
2 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Macron’s figure stolen from Paris waxwork museum

President Emmanuel Macron’s wax figure was stolen yesterday from a Paris waxwork museum by several people claiming to be Greenpeace environmental activists, a police source told AFP.
2 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Russia, Ukraine swap peace roadmaps

Russia and Ukraine yesterday swapped plans for ending their three-year war during talks in Istanbul aiming to find a way out of Europe’s largest conflict since World War II.
2 June 2025, 18:00 PM

No nuclear deal if deprived of ‘peaceful activities’

Iran said yesterday it will not accept a nuclear agreement that deprives it of what it calls “peaceful activities”, a reference to uranium enrichment, as it pressed the United States for guarantees it will drop sanctions.
2 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Hospital in southern Gaza overwhelmed

Medical charity Doctors Without Borders yesterday said the staff at Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis are working in dire conditions, facing severe shortages of medical supplies.
2 June 2025, 18:00 PM

New hope for patients with less common breast cancer

A new treatment nearly halves the risk of disease progression or death from a less common form of breast cancer that hasn't seen major drug advances in over a decade, researchers reported Monday
2 June 2025, 12:43 PM

Russia and Ukraine to talk about peace but are still far apart

The first round of talks on May 16 yielded the biggest prisoner swap of the war but no sign of peace - or even a ceasefire as both sides merely set out their own opening negotiating positions.
2 June 2025, 06:54 AM

China says 'firmly rejects' US claim of violating tariff deal

Beijing and Washington last month agreed to temporarily slash staggeringly high levies on each other for 90 days after talks between top officials in Geneva.
2 June 2025, 06:42 AM

Airlines less optimistic for 2025, facing 'headwinds': IATA

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimates fewer than five billion air journeys will take place this year, compared with the previously forecast 5.22 billion.
2 June 2025, 06:32 AM

Europe bristles at US proposals at Asian gathering, India-Pakistan hostility on show

Even as he warned in a speech on Saturday that China posed an "imminent" threat, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made clear he wanted Europeans to concentrate on European security as they boosted military budgets.
2 June 2025, 05:38 AM

Man attacks Colorado crowd with firebombs, 8 people injured

Authorities had earlier put the count of the injured at six and saidat least one of them was in a critical condition
2 June 2025, 05:29 AM

South Korea's presidential candidates rally in final campaign stretch

Both candidates have framed the campaign as a fight for the soul of the nation
2 June 2025, 05:19 AM