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July 8, 2025 12:07 PM

US restores $6.8 million aid for Tibetans, State Department says

The United States has restored $6.8 million in funding for Tibetans in South Asia, the U.S. State Department told Reuters on Tuesday, confirming comments by Tibet's government-in-exile. The aid had been cut by President Donald Trump's administration...

July 8, 2025 12:04 PM

Sacked Russian transport minister found dead in his car with gunshot wound

Russia's sacked transport minister has been found dead in his car outside Moscow with a gunshot wound and the principal hypothesis is that he took his own life, state investigators said on Monday, hours after President Vladimir Putin fired him. A ...

July 8, 2025 10:59 AM

Wartime innovation boosts Israeli defence tech growth, drawing global interest

Israeli army reservist Zach Bergerson felt he had to take action when he saw fellow soldiers having to rely on their eyes and ears to detect swarms of enemy drones overhead. So the high-tech professional, 36, developed a wearable device that uses ...

July 8, 2025 10:13 AM

Netanyahu meets Trump at White House as Israel, Hamas discuss ceasefire

U.S. President Donald Trump, hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday, said the United States had scheduled talks with Iran and indicated progress on a controversial effort to relocate Palestinians out of Gaza. ...

July 8, 2025 10:09 AM

China warns Trump on tariffs, threatens retaliation on supply chain deals

China warned the Trump administration on Tuesday against reigniting trade tension by restoring tariffs on its goods next month, and threatened to retaliate against nations that strike deals with the United States to cut China out of supply chains. W...

July 8, 2025 10:00 AM

Hopes fade for Texas flood victims as death toll tops 95

Search teams plodded through muddy riverbanks and flew aircraft over a flood-ravaged central Texas landscape on Monday as hopes dimmed for finding more survivors among dozens still missing from a disaster that has claimed at least 96 lives, many...

July 8, 2025 9:55 AM

King Charles hosts Macron in first European state visit since Brexit

Britain's King Charles will welcome French President Emmanuel Macron to Windsor Castle on Tuesday for the first state visit by a European leader since Brexit in a trip aimed at celebrating the return of closer political ties between the countries. T...

July 8, 2025 9:36 AM

Trump says US will send more weapons to Ukraine

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States would send more weapons to Ukraine, primarily defensive ones, to help the war-torn country defend itself against intensifying Russian advances. Washington's decision to halt some weapons s...

July 8, 2025 9:46 AM

Japan will continue trade talks with US for mutually beneficial deal, Ishiba says

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Tuesday that he would continue negotiations with the U.S. to seek a mutually beneficial trade deal, after President Donald Trump announced 25% tariffs on goods from Japan starting August 1. Trump on Mon...

July 8, 2025 9:14 AM

Netanyahu says any future Palestinian state would be a platform to destroy Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he wanted peace with Palestinians but described any future independent state as a platform to destroy Israel and for that reason sovereign power of security must remain with Israel. Speaking a...

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