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Brazil president condemns Gaza genocide at BRICS summit

BRAZIL: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has demanded international intervention against Israel, stating that the world must not stay silent on what he described as genocide in Gaza. His remarks were made during the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, where he condemned the killing of civilians and the use of starvation as… Continue reading

BRICS pushes for fair trade, IMF reform and AI governance in Rio declaration

KUALA LUMPUR: The BRICS bloc has reinforced its stance on fair global trade, opposing unilateral protectionist measures disguised as environmental policies. In the 17th BRICS Rio De Janeiro Declaration, the group emphasised adherence to international law while pushing for greater representation of emerging economies in global financial institutions. The declaration, spanning 31 pages, highlighted the… Continue reading

BRICS pushes for fair trade, IMF reform and AI governance in Rio declaration

First indirect Hamas-Israel ceasefire talks ended inconclusively, Palestinian sources say

CAIRO: The first session of indirect Hamas-Israel ceasefire talks in Qatar ended inconclusively, two Palestinian sources familiar with the matter said early on Monday, adding that the Israeli delegation didn’t have a sufficient mandate to reach an agreement with Hamas. The talks resumed on Sunday, ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s third visit to… Continue reading

First indirect Hamas-Israel ceasefire talks ended inconclusively, Palestinian sources say

Netanyahu says Trump meeting could ‘advance’ Gaza deal ahead of Doha talks

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he hoped an upcoming meeting with US President Donald Trump could “help advance” a Gaza ceasefire deal, after sending negotiators to Doha for indirect talks with Hamas. Under mounting pressure to end the war, now approaching its 22nd month, the Israeli premier is scheduled to sit… Continue reading

Netanyahu says Trump meeting could ‘advance’ Gaza deal ahead of Doha talks

BRICS leaders condemn Gaza and Iran attacks, urge global reforms

RIO DE JANEIRO: Leaders of the BRICS group of developing nations on Sunday condemned attacks on Gaza and Iran, called for reforms of global institutions and presented the bloc as a haven for multilateral diplomacy amid violent conflicts and trade wars. With forums such as the G7 and G20 groups of major economies hamstrung by… Continue reading

BRICS leaders condemn Gaza and Iran attacks, urge global reforms

Trump calls Musk’s new political party ridiculous in latest feud

MORRISTOWN: Former US President Donald Trump has dismissed Elon Musk’s newly formed political party as “ridiculous,“ reigniting tensions between the once-allied billionaires. Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One, Trump criticised the idea of a third party, calling it unnecessary in America’s long-standing two-party system. “Third parties have never worked. So he can have… Continue reading

Trump calls Musk’s new political party ridiculous in latest feud

US tariffs set for August 1 unless trade deals reached

WASHINGTON: US tariffs will take effect on August 1 unless trading partners, including Taiwan and the European Union, reach agreements with Washington, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed. The rates will revert to the higher levels initially announced by former President Donald Trump in April, following a suspension for negotiations. Bessent stated on CNN that the… Continue reading

US tariffs set for August 1 unless trade deals reached

Death toll from Texas floods reaches 78; Trump plans visit

HUNT: The death toll from catastrophic floods in Texas reached at least 78 on Sunday, including at least 28 children, as the search for girls missing from a summer camp entered a third day and fears of more flash flooding prompted fresh evacuations. Larry Leitha, the Kerr County Sheriff in Texas Hill Country, said 68… Continue reading

Syria fights fires for fourth day as Jordan sends help

DAMASCUS: Syrian authorities said some 100 square kilometres (40 square miles) of forest had “turned to ash” in wildfires as firefighters from neighbouring Jordan arrived Sunday to battle a fourth day of blazes in the province of Latakia. Syrian emergency workers have faced tough conditions including high temperatures, strong winds, rugged mountainous terrain in the… Continue reading

Escaped lion shot dead in Turkey after attacking worker

ISTANBUL: A lion that escaped a theme park near the Turkish resort of Antalya was shot dead Sunday after attacking a man, the local governor and media reports said. The lion, reportedly named Zeus, escaped his enclosure at the Land of Lions animal theme park in Manavgat, some 60 kilometres west of Antalya in the… Continue reading

Gunmen on skiffs attack ship in Red Sea off Yemen: monitors

DUBAI: Gunmen on small boats fired rocket-propelled grenades and small arms at a commercial vessel in the Red Sea off Yemen on Sunday, monitors said, in the latest attack on the vital shipping lane. The incident occurred 51 nautical miles (94 kilometres) southwest of the Yemeni port of Hodeida, said the United Kingdom Maritime Trade… Continue reading

Armed gang attacks Kenya Human Rights Commission

NAIROBI: An armed gang attacked the headquarters of the Kenyan Human Rights Commission on Sunday as it hosted a press conference calling for an end to state violence, an AFP journalist saw. The press conference was being held ahead of Monday’s “Saba Saba Day”, an annual commemoration of pro-democracy protests in the 1990s. “The gate… Continue reading

Netanyahu meets Israel president on Gaza, Arab ties before US trip

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met the country’s president on Sunday ahead of his visit to Washington, with talks focusing on the Gaza war and efforts to expand ties with Arab states, the presidency said. Netanyahu is expected at the White House on Monday for talks with US President Donald Trump, who is pushing… Continue reading

‘Emergency’ at Afghan border as migrant returns from Iran surge ahead of deadline

ISLAM QALA: Tens of thousands of Afghans streamed over the border from Iran in the days before a return deadline set for Sunday, the United Nations said, sparking an “emergency” situation at border points. In late May, Iran said undocumented Afghans must leave the country by July 6, potentially impacting four million people, out of… Continue reading

Switzerland reopens embassy in Tehran

GENEVA: Switzerland said on Sunday it was reopening its embassy in Tehran, which was closed last month amid an air war with Israel, and will resume representing US interests in the country. As of Sunday, the embassy is “again open having temporarily been closed on June 20 owing to the instability of the situation in… Continue reading

Sweden to map immigrants’ values to boost integration

STOCKHOLM: Sweden plans to survey immigrants’ values in a bid to improve their integration into the country’s progressive and liberal society, Sweden’s new integration minister said on Sunday. Sweden’s right-wing government came to power in 2022 backed by the far-right Sweden Democrats, vowing to crack down on immigration and improve the integration of immigrants, among… Continue reading

Gunmen kill Mexico city counciller during basketball game

MEXICO CITY: Gunmen burst into a sports hall in central Mexico and shot dead a local government official attending an amateur basketball game on Saturday, local authorities said. Families and children had gathered at the sports center in the violent state of Guanajuato, where Ignacio Alejandro Roaro, a city council secretary in Apaseo el Grande,… Continue reading

Mediators tell Hamas new Gaza talks to begin in Doha

GAZA CITY: International mediators trying to broker a ceasefire to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza have informed the Palestinian group that talks will resume on Sunday, a Palestinian official said. “Mediators informed Hamas that a new round of indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel will begin in Doha today, Sunday,“ the official, who is… Continue reading

South Korea investigators seek to arrest former president Yoon again

SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors requested a new arrest warrant on Sunday to detain former president Yoon Suk Yeol, after questioning him twice, including a session that lasted over nine hours. Yoon was formally stripped of office in April, after being impeached and suspended by lawmakers over his December 3 attempt to subvert civilian rule, which… Continue reading

Two Iran Guards killed clearing explosives after Israel war

TEHRAN: Two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were killed Sunday while attempting to defuse explosives in an area of the country’s west hit by Israeli strikes last month, Iranian media reported. Israel and Iran fought a 12-day war sparked by an Israeli bombing campaign on June 13. The strikes, according to Israel, were aimed at… Continue reading

China hits back at EU with reciprocal ban on major medical equipment contracts

BEIJING: China hit back on Sunday at an EU ban on Chinese firms from major medical equipment purchases with a reciprocal bar on European companies in the latest trade salvo between the two economies. China’s finance ministry said in a statement that European Union companies, with the exception of “those with European capital established in… Continue reading

Hezbollah chief says will not surrender under threat from Israel

BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said Sunday his group would not surrender or lay down its weapons in response to Israeli threats, despite pressure on the Lebanese militants to disarm. “This threat will not make us accept surrender,“ Qassem said in a televised speech to thousands of his supporters in the southern suburbs of Beirut,… Continue reading

Taiwan says China opening flight path raises regional unease

TAIPEI: Taipei condemned Sunday China’s move to open a sensitive aviation route that runs through the Taiwan Strait, warning the change could increase tensions between the two sides and “regional unease”. Taiwan’s top China policy body criticised Beijing after its civil aviation authority opened another west-to-east connecting route above the sensitive waterway. China has shown… Continue reading

Death toll in Pakistan building collapse rises to 27

KARACHI: Rescue teams were in the final stages of clearing the wreckage of a five-storey building that collapsed in Pakistan’s mega city of Karachi killing 27 people, officials said Sunday. Residents reported hearing cracking sounds shortly before the apartment block crumbled around 10:00 am on Friday in Karachi’s impoverished Lyari neighbourhood, which was once plagued… Continue reading

Vietnam’s laid-off communist officials face uncertain future

HANOI: Sipping green tea in his garden of roses, ex-communist party official Nguyen Van Cuong says he is “jobless but happy” after Vietnam cut 80,000 state roles this week. But fretting at home after leaving public employment once considered a job-for-life, Nguyen Thi Thu told AFP she feels “empty” over a future that is no… Continue reading

China opens third extension to sensitive Taiwan Strait flight path

HONG KONG: China said on Sunday it has opened a third extension of the M503 flight route, which is just west of an unofficial dividing line in the Taiwan Strait, with Taipei protesting this was a “unilateral” move aimed at changing the strait’s status quo. China last year moved the M503 route closer to the… Continue reading

Colombia arrests man suspected of organizing hit on politician

BOGOTÁ: Colombian police probing the attempted assassination of a prominent right-wing presidential candidate arrested on Saturday a man they believe hired the teenager accused of pulling the trigger. Elder Jose Arteaga Hernandez was described by police as a key planner of the June 7 attack on conservative senator Miguel Uribe, who remains hospitalized in serious… Continue reading

Investment firm Azoria postpones Tesla ETF after Musk plans political party

BENGALURU: Investment firm Azoria Partners said on Saturday it will postpone the listing of its Azoria Tesla Convexity exchange traded fund after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he was forming a new U.S. political party. Musk made the announcement a day after polling his followers on the X social media platform he owns, declaring, “Today… Continue reading

Investment firm Azoria postpones Tesla ETF after Musk plans political party

Israel army bulldozers plough through homes at West Bank camps

TULKAREM: In the West Bank city of Tulkarem, the landscape has been transformed after Israeli army bulldozers ploughed through its two refugee camps in what the military called a hunt for Palestinian militants. The army gave thousands of displaced residents just a few hours to retrieve belongings from their homes before demolishing buildings and clearing… Continue reading

Israel army bulldozers plough through homes at West Bank camps

Rescuers search for missing girls as Texas flood death toll hits 50

HUNT: Rescuers searched Saturday for 27 girls missing from a riverside summer camp in Texas, after torrential rains caused devastating floods that killed 50 people in the US state. Multiple flash flood warnings remained in place across central Texas after water surged through communities, with the Guadalupe River rise by 26 feet (eight meters) in… Continue reading

Rescuers search for missing girls as Texas flood death toll hits 50

Texas flood witness recalls furniture, trees and RVs swept down river

COMFORT: Tonia Fucci, a Pennsylvania resident visiting her grandmother for the Independence Day weekend, woke early on Friday to the sound of heavy rain “coming down in buckets.” Along with the rain, she heard something else – loud, startling cracking noises. “It’s indescribable, the sounds, of how loud they were, which turned out to be… Continue reading

Texas flood witness recalls furniture, trees and RVs swept down river

Hiroshima teens relay atom bomb horror with art

HIROSHIMA: Trudging through the ruins of Hiroshima after the US atom bombing four days before in 1945, five-year-old Masaki Hironaka clutched his mother’s hand and silently vowed to protect her. It’s one of many scenes from 80 years ago this August still etched in the octogenarian’s memory — and now depicted vividly by Japanese teenagers… Continue reading

Hiroshima teens relay atom bomb horror with art

BRICS nations voice ‘serious concerns’ over Trump tariffs

RIO DE JANEIRO: BRICS leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday are expected to decry US President Donald Trump’s “indiscriminate” trade tariffs, saying they are illegal and risk hurting the global economy. Emerging nations, which represent about half the world’s population and 40 percent of global economic output, have united over “serious concerns” about… Continue reading

BRICS nations voice ‘serious concerns’ over Trump tariffs

AI robots fill in for weed killers and farm hands

LOS BANOS: Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused with artificial intelligence carefully combs a cotton field in California, plucking out weeds. As farms across the United States face a shortage of laborers and weeds grow resistant to herbicides, startup Aigen says its robotic solution — named… Continue reading

Father’s desperate search for daughter after deadly Texas flood

HUNT: With a drizzle falling on Camp Mystic, the flood-ravaged Christian summer camp on the Guadalupe River in Texas, a father navigated the debris in search of his eight-year-old daughter. “My daughter was here,“ he said Saturday, examining a stone-walled cabin with shattered windows, eventually finding a towel with her name, a bracelet and a… Continue reading

Father’s desperate search for daughter after deadly Texas flood

BRICS finance ministers make unified proposal for IMF reforms

RIO DE JANEIRO: Finance ministers from the BRICS group of developing nations called on Saturday for reform of the International Monetary Fund, including a new distribution of voting rights and an end to the tradition of European management at the helm. The joint statement by the group’s finance ministers marks the first time the BRICS… Continue reading