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May 15, 2025 4:15 PM

Trump’s ‘palace in the sky’ plane gift concerns some Republicans

Multiple congressional Republicans raised concerns about President Donald Trump's desire to accept a $400 million airplane from Qatar, as rival Democrats slammed the plan as an illegal foreign donation and national security threat. Trump said on Mon...

May 15, 2025 4:15 PM

Trump heads to UAE as it hopes to advance AI ambitions

U.S. President Donald Trump was due to end a brief trip to Qatar with a speech to U.S. troops on Thursday then fly to the United Arab Emirates, where leaders hope for U.S. help to make the wealthy Gulf nation a global leader in artificial intelligenc...

May 15, 2025 5:14 PM

Putin’s no-show throws Ukraine peace talks into confusion

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent aides and deputy ministers to hold peace talks with Ukraine in Turkey on Thursday, spurning Kyiv's challenge to go there in person to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Putin on Sunday proposed direct neg...

May 14, 2025 10:28 PM

Akash Missile, IACCS and Drones drive India’s defence success in Operation SINDOOR

Operation SINDOOR has emerged as a major milestone in India’s pursuit of self-reliance in national security, demonstrating the country’s growing technological and operational capabilities in countering asymmetric warfare. In the wake of the terro...

May 14, 2025 4:14 PM

Trump meets Syrian president, says he is looking into normalising ties

U.S. President Donald Trump met with Syria's president in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, after a surprise U.S. announcement it would lift all sanctions on the Islamist-led government, and said Washington was exploring the possibility of normalising ties ...

May 14, 2025 2:48 PM

Operation Sindoor: From strategic restraint to sovereign retaliation

India’s military response to the April 22, 2025, Pahalgam terror attack marked not merely a tactical action, but a fundamental shift in its strategic doctrine. Operation Sindoor, the codename for a bold retaliatory air campaign, shattered the long-...

May 14, 2025 4:14 PM

Israel issues evacuation warnings in Yemen as Trump visits Gulf

Israel issued evacuation warnings on Wednesday for three seaports in Yemen after saying the Iran-aligned Houthis had fired a missile towards it. It reported the missile launch while U.S. President Donald Trump was on a visit to three Gulf states - S...

May 14, 2025 4:15 PM

Jose Mujica, Uruguay’s former leader, rebel icon, and cannabis reformer, dead at 89

Jose Mujica, a one-time guerrilla and later president of Uruguay who drove a beat-up VW Beetle and enacted progressive reforms that carried his reputation well beyond South America, has died aged 89. The straight-talking Mujica, known to many Urugua...

May 14, 2025 9:46 AM

Brazilian researcher who helped country’s grain boom wins World Food Prize

Brazilian microbiologist Mariangela Hungria, whose research has helped farmers in the country sharply boost grain production, has been named the 2025 World Food Prize Laureate, the Iowa-based foundation organizing the prize said on Tuesday. Hungria ...

May 13, 2025 6:44 PM

Blood Money: Pakistan’s Shadow Economy and the Trade that Fuels Terrorism

A Hidden Artery that Predates 9/11 Islamabad has long claimed that terrorist finance seeped in from Afghanistan only after the Twin Towers fell. Yet the sluice gates were prised open a decade earlier. In 1991, then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said h...

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