Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during the latter’s visit to India in March. File. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent visit to India has helped pave the way for a complete reset of Canada-India relations, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said in Ottawa. The ties were strained under Mr….
Earlier President Donald Trump said on social media that negotiations were “proceeding nicely”. | Photo Credit: Reuters The U.S. military said it carried out “self-defence” strikes in southern Iran, including on missile launch sites and boats placing mines, even as President Donald Trump said on social media that negotiations were “proceeding nicely”. The strikes were…
Senegal’s President on Monday (May 25, 2026) named a senior economist as Prime Minister after sacking his estranged former mentor in a shock move, saying the new appointee had the expertise to steer the west African country out of crippling debt. Senegal is mired in a deep political crisis after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on…
Former Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. | Photo Credit: AP Nepal’s Supreme Court on Monday (May 25, 2026) issued an interim order barring the arrest of former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his spouse Arzu Rana Deuba in a money laundering case. The Bench, comprising Justice Mahesh Sharma Paudel and Nityananda Pandey, while…
Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday (May 25, 2026) for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimising slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.” Past Popes have apologised for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But no…
A man walks through debris of a demolished market, which was hit during Russian missile and drone attack, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia said Monday (May 25, 2026) it plans to launch more strikes on Kyiv, including on its “decision-making centres”, and repeated a call for foreign citizens…
An Iranian Health Ministry official said on Monday (May 25, 2026) the injuries suffered by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in U.S.-Israeli strikes in late February were only “superficial”, offering a rare account of the day he was wounded. The 56-year-old has not appeared publicly since he was named as Iran’s supreme leader on March…
Nabil Abu Labda carries the body of his 6-year-old daughter, Menna Allah Abu Labda, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, during her funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on May 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP An Israeli airstrike on a tent in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday (May 25,…
People hold Hezbollah flags while commemorating Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, on May 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday (May 25, 2026) called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resume bombing Beirut in response to increased explosive drone attacks…
Jailed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Ocalan. File | Photo Credit: AP Jailed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Ocalan warned against any delay in taking legal steps to flesh out the peace process with Ankara, in a message shared on Monday (May 25, 2026) . Last year, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) formally…