Trump announces talks with Canada, Mexico over sweeping tariffs

Trump has also hit China with a 10-percent tariff in addition to levies already in place.
3 February 2025, 03:20 AM

UK to become first country to criminalise AI child abuse tools

Britain will become the first country to introduce laws against AI tools used to generate sexual abuse images, the government announced late Saturday.
2 February 2025, 19:00 PM

Iran unveils new ballistic missile in show of force

Iran revealed a new ballistic missile yesterday that it said was capable of travelling 1,700 kilometres, unveiling it in a Tehran ceremony attended by President Masoud Pezeshkian.
2 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Israeli PM travels to US for talks

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday left for the United States where he will become the first foreign leader to meet Donald Trump since the US president returned to office.
2 February 2025, 18:00 PM

US carries out airstrikes on IS in Somalia

The United States military on Saturday conducted air strikes on Islamic State (IS) group targets in Somalia, President Donald Trump announced.
2 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Over 7.2K illegal migrants arrested in 9 days

US Federal immigration officials have arrested more than 7,200 illegal migrants since President Trump green-lighted deportation raids nearly two weeks ago.
2 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Russia, Ukraine trade blame for missile strike

Ukraine and Russia traded blame for a deadly missile strike on Saturday that killed at least four people in the dormitory of a boarding school situated in a part of Russia’s Kursk region held by Kyiv forces.
2 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Canada, Mexico hit US with retaliatory tariffs

US President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered sweeping tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China, demanding they stanch the flow of fentanyl - and illegal immigrants in the case of Canada and Mexico - into the United States, kicking off a trade war that could dent global growth and reignite inflation.
2 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Israeli army says 'a number of terrorists' killed in West Bank operation

The Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday evening that Israeli strikes in the Jenin area had killed five people, including a 16-year-old
2 February 2025, 08:34 AM

Trump says US carries out airstrikes on Islamic State in Somalia

Saturday's strikes were carried out in the Golis Mountains
2 February 2025, 04:25 AM

Mexico orders retaliation to Trump tariffs without detailing targets

US exports to Mexico accounted for more than $322 billion in 2023
2 February 2025, 04:13 AM

China says 'firmly opposes' new US tariffs, vows 'countermeasures'

China's commerce ministry slammed Washington's "erroneous practices"
2 February 2025, 04:06 AM

For world's poorest, fears for long-term setbacks after Trump aid cut

US has long been the world's largest provider of development aid
2 February 2025, 02:48 AM

Trudeau announces tariffs on US in retaliation for Trump's tariffs

Trump earlier signed an executive order imposing 25% tariffs on all goods from Canada and Mexico
2 February 2025, 02:39 AM

Trump launches trade war with tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China

President Donald Trump announced broad tariffs Saturday on major US trading partners Canada, Mexico and China, claiming a "major threat" from illegal immigration and drugs -- a move that sparked promises of retaliation.
2 February 2025, 02:30 AM

56 killed as fighting grips greater Khartoum

Artillery shelling and air strikes killed at least 56 people across greater Khartoum on Saturday, according to a medical source and Sudanese activists.
1 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Indian troops kill 8 Maoists

Indian commandos shot dead at least eight Maoist rebels in the dense jungles of central India yesterday, as security forces ramp up efforts to crush the long-running conflict.
1 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Hamas-Israel complete 4th hostage-prisoner swap

Freed Palestinian inmates were greeted by a cheering crowd in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday, after Hamas released three Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip in the fourth exchange under the group’s ceasefire deal with Israel.
1 February 2025, 18:00 PM

German ex-president Horst Koehler dead at 81

Koehler, an economist by training, was the first German president who was not a career politician
1 February 2025, 10:54 AM

18 Pakistan paramilitaries killed in ambush

70 to 80 armed assailants attacked them blocking a road
1 February 2025, 10:46 AM