Iranian President Pezeshkian in Pakistan to strengthen bilateral ties

Iranian President Pezeshkian in Pakistan to strengthen bilateral ties

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is welcomed by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad, Pakistan, on August 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: West Asia News Agency Handout via Reuters Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in Pakistan on Saturday (August 2, 2025) on a two-day state visit aimed at strengthening ties and increasing bilateral trade volume … Read more

Turkiye starts supplying Azerbaijani gas to boost Syria’s power output

Turkiye starts supplying Azerbaijani gas to boost Syria's power output

Türkiye’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar (2nd right), Minister of the Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mikayil Jabbarov (right), Syrian energy minister Mohammed al-Bashir (2nd Left) and Director General of Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) Fahad Hamad Hassan Al-Sulait (L) during the Türkiye-Syria Natural gas pipeline opening and the commencement of … Read more

Bangladesh to unveil democratic overhauls on revolution anniversary

Bangladesh to unveil democratic overhauls on revolution anniversary

Muhammad Yunus, the 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, is leading the caretaker government as its chief adviser until elections are held. | Photo Credit: Reuters Bangladesh’s interim government said on Saturday (August 2, 2025) it will release its slate of democratic overhauls on August 5, the one-year anniversary of the overthrow of the previous autocratic … Read more

Montana bar shooting: Former U.S. soldier suspected in shooting that killed 4 people

Montana bar shooting: Former U.S. soldier suspected in shooting that killed 4 people

Police tape surrounds The Owl Bar in Anaconda, Montana, on August 1, 2025, following a fatal shooting. | Photo Credit: AP Police and other emergency personnel are seen after a reported shooting in Anaconda, Mont., Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (Joseph Scheller/The Montana Standard via AP) | Photo Credit: AP A shooting at a Montana bar … Read more

U.S. employers slash hiring as Trump advances a punishing trade agenda

U.S. employers slash hiring as Trump advances a punishing trade agenda

U.S. hiring is slowing sharply as President Donald Trump’s erratic and radical trade policies paralyse businesses and raise doubts about the outlook for the world’s largest economy. U.S. employers added just 73,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Friday, well short of the 1,15,000 expected. Worse, revisions shaved a stunning 2,58,000 jobs off May … Read more

Germany says ‘very insufficient’ aid entering Gaza

Germany says 'very insufficient' aid entering Gaza

Palestinians are carried after being wounded while trying to reach trucks carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza City, in the outskirts of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP The amount of aid entering Gaza remains “very insufficient” despite a limited improvement, the German government said on Saturday … Read more

Israeli fire kills at least 18 in Gaza, U.S. envoy visits hostage family protest

Israeli fire kills at least 18 in Gaza, U.S. envoy visits hostage family protest

Hospitals in Gaza reported the killing of more than a dozen people, eight of them food-seekers, by Israeli fire on Saturday (August 2025) as Palestinians endured severe risks in their search for food amid airdrops and restrictions on overland aid delivery. Near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site, Yahia Youssef, who had come to seek … Read more

Former Mali Prime Minister arrested for supporting jailed critics of the ruling military junta

Former Mali Prime Minister arrested for supporting jailed critics of the ruling military junta

Former Mali Prime Minister Moussa Mara. File | Photo Credit: AFP Mali’s former Prime Minister was taken into pretrial detention on Friday (August 1, 2025) after expressing solidarity in a media post with jailed critics of the military junta ruling the West African country, his lawyer and a close associate said. Moussa Mara’s arrest is … Read more

Trump removes official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report

Trump removes official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before walking across the South Lawn of the White House to board Marine One en route to Joint Base Andrews, Md., on August 1, 2025, in Washington. | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump on Friday (August 1, 2025) removed the head of the agency that produces the monthly … Read more

Ahmedabad Air India crash: U.K. families await update on DNA-matched remains

Ahmedabad Air India crash: U.K. families await update on DNA-matched remains

AHMEDABAD : GUJARAT : 12/07/2025 : Wreckage of the crashed Air India Plane is lying at Ahmedabad Airport premises in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on July 12, 2025. The Ahmedabad-London Air India flight, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner (AI 171) with 242 people on board, crashed into a medical hostel and its canteen complex in Ahmedabad on June … Read more