Taipei: China is reaching out to other nations as the US layers on more tariffs in what appears to be an attempt to form a united front to compel Washington to retreat. Days into the effort, it's meeting only partial success with many countries unwilling...
Brussels: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Thursday welcomed President Donald Trump's decision to temporarily halt most US tariffs, but she did not say whether the European Union intends to press ahead with its own retaliatory measures. “I have authorised a 90-day PAUSE,” Trump...
Sanaa: The death toll from fresh US airstrikes on Yemen's capital Sanaa rose to three, with several others wounded, medics and health authorities told Xinhua. The airstrikes targeted the Al-Nahdayn area, which is surrounded by densely residential neighbourhoods, on late Wednesday night. Shrapnel hit many...
Washington: US President Donald Trump Wednesday announced a lower rate of 10 per cent for 90 days in reciprocal tariffs for trading partner countries that have not retaliated with higher levies on American goods — such as India — and further hiked the levy on...
Washington: Facing a global market meltdown, US President Donald Trump Wednesday abruptly backed down on his tariffs on most nations for 90 days, but raised the tax rate on Chinese imports to 125 per cent. It was seemingly an attempt to narrow what had been...
Gaza: At least 29 Palestinians were killed and more than 50 others injured Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike that hit a residential block in the Shuja'iyya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, Hamas said. Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for Gaza Civil Defence, told Xinhua news agency...
Seoul: South Korea's Acting President Han Duck-soo has said South Korea will not form a coalition with China and Japan to jointly respond to US tariff measures, but seeks to resolve related issues through negotiations with Washington. Han made the remark in a CNN interview...
Moscow: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is likely to attend Russia's Victory Day celebrations next month, the country's media reported Wednesday. "Singh's visit to Moscow for the parade] is possible," reported Russia's state-run news agency Tass, citing Indian government sources. Earlier, the agency had reported that...
Seoul: Former South Korean Democratic Party (DP) leader Lee Jae-myung will announce his presidential bid via a video message Wednesday, an aide said. Kwon Hyuk-ki, a former chief political planner for Lee, told reporters Wednesday that the 10-minute video will be unveiled at 10 a.m....
Islamabad: Pakistan Wednesday decided to send a high-level delegation to the United States to hold talks on trade promotion and new tariffs, the prime minister's office said. Chairing a review meeting on increasing the country's exports and the tariffs imposed by the US on imports,...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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