Russian strikes kill six across Ukraine

Russian strikes kill six across Ukraine

Women stand next to flowers, children’s toys, and portraits placed in memory of victims at the site of a nine-storey residential building destroyed following a recent Russian missile strike in Kyiv, on August 5, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian attacks have killed hundreds of Ukrainian civilians since June. | Photo Credit: AFP … Read more

Don’t give China pass, burn relationship with ‘strong ally’ India: Nikki Haley

Don’t give China pass, burn relationship with 'strong ally' India: Nikki Haley

File picture of former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley | Photo Credit: Reuters The U.S. should not burn its relationship with a “strong ally like India” and give a pass to China, Indian-American Republican leader Nikki Haley said on Tuesday (August 5, 2025), amid President Donald Trump’s attacks against New Delhi over … Read more

Yunus vows constitutional status for 2024 uprising in Bangladesh’s ‘July Declaration’

Yunus vows constitutional status for 2024 uprising in Bangladesh’s ‘July Declaration’

Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus formally unveils the July Declaration at the National Parliament premises in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 5, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP The student-people uprising of 2024 that overthrew the Sheikh Hasina-led government of Bangladesh will get “constitutional recognition”, said the July Declaration that was launched by Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus … Read more

Eighty years on from Hiroshima

Eighty years on from Hiroshima

This file photo dated 1945 shows the devastated city of Hiroshima after the first atomic bomb was dropped by the U.S. on August 6, 1945. | Photo Credit: AFP At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, a nuclear bomb exploded just above Hiroshima, instantly killing at least 70,000 people. Another 70,000 died of injuries and … Read more

Thailand approves $600 million deal for Swedish fighter jets

Thailand approves $600 million deal for Swedish fighter jets

Thailand approved the purchase of four Swedish-made Gripen fighter jets on Tuesday (August 5, 2025), the air force said, a week after reaching a ceasefire in deadly border clashes with Cambodia. The $600 million agreement for the Saab JAS 39 Gripens was first announced in June as part of a long-term plan to modernise the … Read more

EU suspends tariff retaliation after Trump trade deal

EU suspends tariff retaliation after Trump trade deal

U.S. President Donald Trump. | Photo Credit: Reuters The EU announced the suspension on Tuesday (August 5, 2025) of its retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods worth 93 billion euros ($107 billion) after Brussels struck a deal with Washington last month. “The commission has today adopted the necessary legal procedures to suspend the implementation of our … Read more

Imran Khan’s party organises nationwide protests for his release; over 500 supporters arrested

Imran Khan's party organises nationwide protests for his release; over 500 supporters arrested

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party on Tuesday (August 5, 2025) organised protest rallies in different parts of the country, demanding the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was arrested two years ago on corruption charges. The party claimed that its more than 500 workers and supporters who took to the streets were arrested by police, … Read more

Bangladesh to hold elections in February 2026, says interim leader Muhammad Yunus

Bangladesh to hold elections in February 2026, says interim leader Muhammad Yunus

Students watch as Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus formally unveils the July Declaration at the National Parliament premises, announcing full state and constitutional recognition of the “Student-Mass Uprising 2024” under a revised constitution to be adopted by the next elected government, in Dhaka on August 5, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh will hold elections … Read more

Will raise tariffs on India ‘very substantially’ over next 24 hours, says Trump

Will raise tariffs on India ‘very substantially’ over next 24 hours, says Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday (August 5, 2025) said India has not been a good trading partner and announced that he will raise the tariffs on New Delhi “very substantially” over the next 24 hours because it is buying Russian oil. “With India, what people don’t like to say about India, they’re the highest … Read more