India’s Paytm received a show cause notice from India’s financial crime fighting agency on Saturday for allegedly violating the country’s Foreign Exchange Management Act. The notice relates to violations relating to the acquisition of two subsidiaries – Little Internet Private Limited and Nearbuy India Private Limited for the years 2015 to 2019, Paytm said in…
Germany’s foreign minister said Saturday the “unspeakable” row between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House resembled a “bad dream” as Kyiv’s European allies rallied to its side. “Yesterday evening underlined that a new age of infamy has begun,” Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said in a televised statement….
Ukraine’s European allies, set to gather in London on Sunday, rallied behind President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after Donald Trump threw him out of the White House and accused him of not being “ready” for peace with Russia. Stunned by Friday’s altercation in the Oval Office, which saw Zelenskyy depart the White House without signing an expected…
It was supposed to cap a week of whirlwind diplomacy advancing the prospect of peace in Ukraine. But a summit of European leaders on Sunday has been overshadowed by the extraordinary scolding by US President Donald Trump of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday for being ungrateful for US support. The…
Palestinian militant group Hamas told AFP Sunday it insists on the implementation of a second ceasefire phase after Israel endorsed a temporary extension of the initial phase. “The only way to achieve stability in the region and the return of the prisoners is to complete the implementation of the agreement… starting with the implementation of…
Qatar has refuted claims published by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) it had opposed inviting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to the recent Arab summit in Riyadh on grounds that Hamas should also be in attendance. The gulf country’s official International Media Office released a statement on Saturday calling the WSJ report “baseless and wholly irresponsible,” adding…
Israel will adopt the proposal by US President Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza for the Ramadan and Passover periods, the prime minister’s office said early on Sunday, hours after the first phase of the previously agreed ceasefire expired. On the first day of Witkoff’s proposal, half of the hostages…
US president says his Russian counterpart’s questioning of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s credibility could delay ceasefire Donald Trump has said he is “pissed off” with Vladimir Putin over his approach to a ceasefire in Ukraine and threatened to levy tariffs on Moscow’s oil exports if the Russian leader does not agree to a truce within a month. The US…
‘Zelenskyy is inappropriate, corrupt and incapable of reaching agreement,’ says Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Russia on Saturday described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the US as a “complete political and diplomatic failure” of the Ukrainian government. This came a day after a heated exchange between Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump and Vice President…
The Israeli branch of Physicians for Human Rights has condemned a widespread policy of abuse inflicted on Gazan healthcare workers in Israeli custody, denouncing mistreatment “amounting to torture.” In a report, PHRI said that the Israeli military had detained more than 250 medical personnel and support staff in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war triggered…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to hold consultations with security chiefs and ministers on Friday after an Israeli delegation returned from Cairo with no agreement on extending the Gaza ceasefire, two Israeli officials said. A Hamas official confirmed that Israel had sought to extend the 42-day truce agreed as a first stage in the ceasefire…
The US on Friday announced the approval of the sale of more than $3 billion in munitions, bulldozers and related equipment to Israel, which used American-made weapons to devastating effect in densely populated Gaza. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed off on the sales of $2.04 billion in bomb bodies and warheads, another $675.7 million in other…
US President Donald Trump’s idea to rebuild the Gaza Strip as a swanky riviera is unacceptable unless it is for Gazans themselves to live in, a Palestinian minister said on Friday. “It’s very good to rebuild Gaza as a riviera — but with its people in it,” said Palestinian minister of state for foreign affairs…
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that his relations with the United States can still be repaired, after President Donald Trump shouted at him in an angry White House meltdown accusing the Ukrainian leader of refusing to make peace with Russia. “Of course,” Zelenskyy said when asked in a Fox News interview if the relationship with Trump…
Billionaire Elon Musk, who is a close adviser to US President Donald Trump, has another child, his 14th. His latest child, a son, is with Shivon Zilis, an executive at Musk’s Neuralink with whom he already has three other children. “Discussed with Elon and, in light of beautiful Arcadia’s birthday, we felt it was better to…
