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May 6, 2025 4:29 PM

Poland says Russia is trying to interfere in presidential election

Poland is facing an unprecedented attempt from Russia to interfere in its presidential election, the digital affairs minister said on Tuesday, as the campaign entered its final stages ahead of the first round of voting on May 18. Poland says its rol...

May 6, 2025 4:57 PM

Germany’s Merz fails to be elected chancellor in unprecedented debacle

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor on Tuesday, throwing politics in Europe's largest economy into disarray as it seeks to emerge from recession and stem far-right extremism. Mer...

May 6, 2025 4:08 PM

Israel strikes Yemen’s Hodeidah Port after Houthi attack on Israeli airport

The Israeli military said it carried out airstrikes against Yemen's Hodeidah Port on Monday, a day after the Iran-aligned Houthis fired a missile that struck near Israel's main airport. The military said in a statement that it attacked what it calle...

May 6, 2025 4:08 PM

Trump administration freezes future grants to Harvard

The U.S. Department of Education informed Harvard University on Monday that it was freezing billions of dollars in future research grants and other aid until the nation's oldest and wealthiest college concedes to a number of demands from the�...

May 6, 2025 4:08 PM

US appeals court rejects Trump bid to revoke thousands of migrants’ status

A federal appeals court rejected on Monday a request by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to allow it to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans living in the United State...

May 6, 2025 4:09 PM

Israel may seize all Gaza in expanded operation, officials say

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday an expanded offensive against Palestinian militant group Hamas would be "intensive" after his security cabinet approved plans that may include seizing the Gaza Strip and controlling aid. Howev...

May 6, 2025 1:24 AM

“Pained” by ties reaching “boiling point”: Guterres ahead of UNSC meeting on India-Pakistan

Ahead of the UN Security Council meeting on India and Pakistan, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday that he is "pained" to see their ties reaching a "boiling point." "Tensions between India and Pakistan are at their highest in years," ...

May 6, 2025 1:15 AM

Romania PM resigns after far-right wins first-round of president vote

Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu resigned on Monday, a day after a far-right opposition leader won the first round of the presidential election re-run and his own candidate crashed out of the race. Ciolacu said his centre-left Social Democrats...

May 6, 2025 1:17 AM

Jaishankar appreciates Japan’s support for India over Pahalgam terrorist attack

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday met the Speaker of Japan’s House of Representatives, Fukushiro Nukaga, and expressed gratitude for Tokyo’s expression of solidarity following the recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kash...

May 5, 2025 5:27 PM

ADB fully supports India’s development priorities under PM Modi: Masato Kanda

Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masato Kanda, in his meeting with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, has expressed the Bank’s full support to India’s development priorities, guided by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of Viks...

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