Citing sources, Al Qahera said mediators awaited Hamas’s response. Hamas said in a statement later in the day that it was studying the proposal and that it will submit its response “as soon as possible”. The militant group reiterated its core demand that a ceasefire deal must end the war in Gaza and achieve a […]
Within hours of Harvard taking its stand, the administration of President Donald Trump announced it was freezing $2.3 billion in federal funding to the school. The funding freeze comes after the Trump administration said last month it was reviewing $9 billion in federal contracts and grants to Harvard as part of a crackdown on what […]
On Friday, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index witnessed a substantial decline of up to 1,900 points, representing a 5.7% drop at one point during the trading session. As the day progressed, some investors cautiously repurchased shares, resulting in partial recovery. Nevertheless, the index closed at 33,585 points, marking a drop of 1,023 points or 2.96%, compared […]
New orders for the two imported models are also no longer available on the U.S. automaker’s WeChat mini programme account. Meanwhile, Wall Street stocks fell sharply on Thursday amid growing concerns over Trump‘s ongoing trade battles. All three main US stock indexes suffered deep losses, losing most of the gains they made a day before. […]
President Donald Trump’s administration has attempted to crack down on pro-Palestinian protests over U.S. ally Israel’s devastating military assault on Gaza after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas’s deadly October 2023 attack. “Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds […]
China — Washington’s top economic rival but also a major trading partner — is the hardest hit, with tariffs imposed on its products since Trump returned to the White House now reaching a staggering 104 percent. Following the imposition of sweeping 10 percent tariffs that have rocked the global economy since coming into force over […]
Trump on Wednesday announced that China would be hit with a 34% tariff, on top of the 20% he imposed earlier this year, bringing the total new levies to 54%. Advertisement · Scroll to continue Agriculture trade took another hit as Chinese customs imposed an immediate suspension on imports of sorghums from grain exporter C&D […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has left hundreds of thousands dead and injured, displaced millions of people, reduced towns to rubble and triggered the sharpest confrontation for decades between Moscow and the West. Putin’s heavily qualified support for the U.S. ceasefire proposal looked designed to signal goodwill to Washington and open the door […]
The 79-year-old faces a charge of “the crime against humanity of murder”, according to the ICC, for a crackdown that rights groups estimate killed tens of thousands of mostly poor men, often without proof they were linked to drugs. “Early in the morning, Interpol Manila received the official copy of the warrant of the arrest […]
The 196 signatories to the Geneva Convention will be invited to the meeting, which will be attended by ambassadors, a spokesperson for the Swiss foreign ministry said. On September 18, the UN General Assembly mandated Switzerland to organize the conference, given that the Alpine country is the depository of the international treaties setting out the […]
