In an apparent swipe at US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday strongly criticised “stupid comments” from foreign leaders for exploiting recent domestic unrest in France to further their own political campaigns. Speaking in Doha during a three-day state trip to Qatar and the broader Gulf...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday held a meeting with UAE Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, during which the two leaders exchanged perspectives on bilateral and global issues in the spirit of theirComprehensive Strategic Partnership. In a post on X, Jaishankar said, “A warm and productive meeting with DPM...
Five people have been killed and 16 injuredin a Houthi missile attack targeting the presidential palace in the port city of Aden in southern Yemen, which is the seat of the internationally-recognised government, officials say. Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani told the BBC that the prime minister and other ministers were unhurt when five ballistic missiles...
The Houthis have targeted an administrative building belonging to Saudi Arabia’s Aramco in the eastern city of Dhahran, an official at the Ministry of Energy told the Saudi SPA news agency. Authorities responded to a fire caused by the attack on Tuesday, the ministry said in a statement. No injuries or fatalities were reported. The...
Three civilians have been killed and 36 injured in Houthi-claimed attacks on two airports in Saudi Arabia, according to a statement from the Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA). Abha International Airport and King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh were targeted in two separate attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday. The attack on Abha International...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday blamed mass student protests in France on “mass migration” and Islam, pushing his global right-wing narrative ahead of tough midterm elections at home. “What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration. This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a...
School pupils are expected to be back at the barricades in France on Tuesday for the biggest day of protests so-far, after officers made more that 5,000 in clashes across the country last week. Hundreds of people have been injured in the demonstrations, and one 15-year-old boy had his hand blown off outside a school...
US President Donald Trump confused India for Brazil in a social media post about the South American nation’s presidential election. He claimed that “125 million people voted today in the first round of India’s presidential election.” Trump’s latest gaffe came while attacking the American election system. In a Truth Social post on Sunday, he said,...
Andy Burnham has opened the door to the UK rejoining the EU, saying Britain could “go all the way”, as he prepares to reconsider Labour’s post-Brexit red lines. The prime minister used a series of interviews after his emotional Labour conference speech to spell out how wide-ranging his consideration of Britain’s future with Brussels could...
The United States Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to continue third-country deportations, halting a lower-court ruling that paused such removals over questions of due process. On Tuesday, the high court granted the administration’s emergency request to resume the deportations, which involve sending immigrants to countries they may have no connection to. The...