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EAM Jaishankar meets Qatars top leadership, discusses bilateral ties, global issues

Reviewed key aspects of our Strategic Partnership including energy, trade, investment and people to people connect. Appreciate the exchange of views on Middle East/West Asia, regional and global developments, S. Jaishankar said.

16 Nov 2025 10:06 pm
Tens of thousands rally in Manila over corruption scandal that implicates top Philippine officials

Construction companies were accused of giving dozens of influential politicians and officials huge kickbacks in order to win lucrative contracts and avoid accountability for anomalies in the projects

16 Nov 2025 1:16 pm
U.S. immigration raids begin in Charlotte, North Carolina

Department of Homeland Security did not provide details on the operation, including how many law enforcement officers took part or the number of people detained.

16 Nov 2025 7:02 am
New consensus and sharpening battle lines over Israel in the U.S.

During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump quipped, Earlier, one word against Israel and your politics is over... Now, one word for Israel, and your politics could be over.

15 Nov 2025 11:04 pm
South Africa investigates mystery of plane that arrived with more than 150 Palestinians from Gaza

The plane landed on November 13 morning at O.R. Tambo International Airport, but passengers were not allowed to disembark until late that night

15 Nov 2025 10:06 pm
Huge explosions rock industrial area near Argentinas capital, more than 20 injured

Hospital director Carlos Santoro said his facility had received 22 injured patients

15 Nov 2025 6:55 pm
Iran confirms seizure of oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz

A report by the official Irna news agency carried a statement by the Revolutionary Guard that said the tanker was taken to Iranian waters but it did not elaborate on the illegal consignment

15 Nov 2025 6:11 pm
UN Security Council to vote on November 17 on Trump's Gaza plan

The United States and several Arab and Muslim-majority nations, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, have called for the UN Security Council to quickly adopt the resolution

15 Nov 2025 10:11 am
U.S. presses for approval of U.N. resolution on Gaza as Russia offers rival proposal

Arab and other countries that have expressed interest in participating in the stabilisation force have indicated that such a mandate is necessary for them to contribute troops.

15 Nov 2025 5:35 am
4 TTP militants arrested in Islamabad suicide attack case: Pakistan government

Pakistan has repeatedly accused Afghanistans Taliban rulers of harbouring the TTP, a militant group responsible for a surge in attacks inside Pakistan since 2021

15 Nov 2025 2:05 am
Greenland limits foreigners' right to property

The new legislation means only people and companies from Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Denmark will be allowed to buy property and land-use rights in Greenland

14 Nov 2025 11:00 pm
Bus crashes into a bus stop in Stockholm and causes fatalities, police say

Emergency services said the bus was not in service and no passengers were on board, according to a Swedish news agency

14 Nov 2025 10:11 pm
London judge finds global mining giant BHP Group liable in Brazil's worst environmental disaster

Enough mine waste to fill 13,000 Olympic-size swimming pools poured into the Doce River in southeastern Brazil

14 Nov 2025 5:10 pm
UN human rights body holds special session on Sudan after hundreds killed in Darfurs el-Fasher

The Human Rights Council was also debating a draft resolution calling on an existing team of independent experts to carry out an urgent inquiry into the killings and other rights violations in the city of el-Fasher by RSF

14 Nov 2025 4:06 pm
Pakistan's top court meets after two judges quit in protest at 'grave assault' on Constitution

Two judges of the Supreme Court had quit over the Constitutional amendment; Army chiefs term extended, and powers elevated, under the reform

14 Nov 2025 4:04 pm
East Europe and literary prizes: where David Szalay and Lszl Krasznahorkai meet

Recent award-winning books by several writers on post-war Europe Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke, Dubravka Ugrei, Georgi Gospodinov, Jenny Erpenbeck, Mircea Crtrescu, Serhiy Zhadan, Kapka Kassabova to Szalay and Krasznahorkai dont promise resolution but simply keep a ledger of how people live when history moves on, leaving them to work out the details

14 Nov 2025 3:15 pm
Thai King makes landmark visit to China, Xi vows closer ties

Chinas leader Xi Jinping described China and Thailand as truly good relatives, good friends and good partners,

14 Nov 2025 3:11 pm
China's Shenzhou-20 astronauts to return to Earth after delay due to orbital debris

Return of the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft and crew had been planned for November 5, after the Shenzhou-21 mission arrived to relieve them, says China Manned Space Agency

14 Nov 2025 11:59 am
U.S. proposal at UN for Gaza stabilization force faces concerns from Russia, China, Arabs

The Chinese and the Russians two veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council have called for the Board of Peace under President Donald Trump's ceasefire plan to be removed from the resolution entirely

14 Nov 2025 7:59 am
Turkey-registered plane crashes in Croatia reportedly killing pilot

Croatia's HRT public broadcaster said the Air Tractor AT-802 plane belonged to Turkey's forestry administration

14 Nov 2025 7:13 am
BBC apologises to Trump over its misleading edit, but says there's no basis for defamation claim

If the case went to trial, however, legal experts said the BBC could show that Donald Trump wasn't harmed because he was ultimately elected president in 2024.

14 Nov 2025 7:09 am
David Szalays Booker Prize win and the role of literary awards in building bridges

Szalays novel, Flesh,explores themes of migration and human connection, underscoring how fiction can help people make sense of the world While literary prizes help with greater sales, visibility and readership, they also sustain the conditions in which writers can produce books and readers can read them

14 Nov 2025 6:10 am
China urges Japan PM to retract 'egregious' remarks on Taiwan

There has been little sign this week that tensions over Sanae Takaichis comments were easing

14 Nov 2025 3:26 am
Amoral embrace: On the U.S. and the Syrian President

The U.S. appears to have given a free pass to Sharaa in Syria

14 Nov 2025 12:10 am
Israeli settlers torch mosque, scrawl hateful messages after condemnation from military leaders

Young settlers have launched hundreds of attacks since the war in Gaza erupted two years ago; the attacks have intensified in recent weeks as Palestinians harvest their olive trees in an annual ritual.

13 Nov 2025 5:48 pm
Turkiye temporarily grounds C-130 planes after crash kills 20 military personnel

The cargo plane was flying from Ganja, Azerbaijan to Turkey when it crashed in Georgias Sighnaghi municipality, close to the Azerbaijani border

13 Nov 2025 4:01 pm
Bangladesh to hold referendum on reform charter proposals: Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus also reiterated that parliamentary elections will be held in February and that they would be free and fair

13 Nov 2025 3:16 pm
Bangladesh braces for disruptions as Awami League calls for lockdown to protest Hasina trial

Classes in schools and colleges have been disrupted and transportation has been halted across Bangladesh as the former ruling Awami League party calls for a nationwide protest

13 Nov 2025 12:00 pm