UNRWA chief says $267 million in aid still suspended

Many countries have since resumed their donations, while others have not -- including the United States, which passed a law blocking funding until at least March 2025 from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Dplzenh ...

Two persons injured in fight between Maldivians and Indians in the Maldives

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Columbia University begins suspending Israel-Hamas war protesters after ultimatum to disband camp

Dozens of law enforcement officers arrested six demonstrators and took others into custody one by one from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/26FRp80 ...

Supreme Court rejects Musk appeal over tweets that must be approved by Tesla

The case stems from tweets Musk posted in 2018 in which he claimed he had secured funding to take Tesla private. The tweets caused the company's share price to jump and led to a temporary halt in trading from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/9GtzdJs ...

Actor Gérard Depardieu will be tried for alleged sexual assaults on a film set, prosecutors say

French prosecutors say that actor Gérard Depardieu will face a criminal trial in October over the alleged sexual assaults in 2021 of two women on the set of the film “The Green Shutters." from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/MBO83jA ...

Morning Digest | One killed, three injured in fresh gunbattles in Manipur; India will never bow down, says Rajnath Singh on border talks with China; and more 

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3 Louisiana officers wounded by gunfire in standoff with shooting suspect, police say

Police in Louisiana say three officers have been wounded by gunfire in a standoff with a man suspected of shooting three other people from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/BG5Ffkr ...

Tornadoes kill 2 in Oklahoma as governor issues state of emergency for 12 counties amid storm damage

Three people are dead in Oklahoma after tornadoes swept through the state, leveling buildings and knocking out power for tens of thousands of residents from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/QV1amjK ...

Nemat ‘Minouche’ Shafik | A president under fire

The Columbia University president faces flak after she called New York police to crack down on anti-war protests on the campus from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/mNr8how ...

Israeli army says missile fire kills civilian near Lebanon

Israeli media reported that the victim was an Arab-Israeli truck driver. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/uNMH31a ...

Russia says struck train in Ukraine carrying Western arms

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At SCO meet, India advocates zero-tolerance towards terrorism

SCO Defence Ministers agreed to develop the idea of ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future’, said a statement from the Ministry of Defence from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/HRFBxd1 ...

NIA arrests one accused in London High Commission attack case

U.K. resident Inderpal Singh Gaba was allegedly involved in unlawful activities during the protests that took place at the Indian High Commission on March 22, 2023; part of a larger conspiracy, says NIA from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/AL1Uedp ...

Morning Digest | Phase 2 campaign ends on a sour note as PM Modi targets Congress; Pakistan and Iran say ‘Kashmir issue should be resolved through peaceful means’, and more

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Antony Blinken begins key China visit as tensions rise over new U.S. foreign aid bill

Blinken arrived in Shanghai on April 24 just hours after the Senate vote on the long-stalled legislation from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/WnLxG0Q ...

Australian police execute search warrants as part of a 'major operation' over church stabbings

Detectives and secret service agents investigating the stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church have executed search warrants in the city as part of a major operation from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/tzOifeY ...

Armenia and Azerbaijan move closer to normalizing ties as the first border marker goes up

Azerbaijan regained full control of the Karabakh province which had been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces since the 1990s from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/POFiBTU ...

‘Staggering’ number of workers face climate hazards, says UN

Farm workers and others who carry out heavy labour in hot climates “may be exposed to a cocktail of hazards”, the ILO said. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/djRVbsB ...

Morning Digest | With dip in voter turnout in first phase, ECI forms task force to oversee heat wave conditions; Venkaiah Naidu, Mithun Chakraborty, Usha Uthup conferred Padma awards, and more

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What Muizzu’s super majority could mean 

The Opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) which had put up a similar, impressive show in 2019, winning 65 out of 87 seats then, faced a serious setback in this election from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/6OPXLs3 ...

Morning Digest | Congress accuses PM Modi of ‘hate speech’; Maldives President Muizzu’s party secures big win in parliamentary polls, and more

Here is a select list of stories to start the day from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/zyAR5He ...

Lawrence Wong | Designated successor

Singapore’s new leader is now tasked with fortifying the ruling party’s walls and earning back the trust of the public that took a hit by scandals before next year’s general elections from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/1mVUL6o ...

Attack blamed on IS militants kills 22 pro-government fighters in central Syria

Gunmen attacked a bus carrying members of the Quds Brigade, a government and Russian-backed faction of mostly Palestinian fighters in Syria from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/YJwU6IV ...

G7 slams Chinese firms' military help for Russia

United States is increasingly denouncing what it says is China's backdoor support for Moscow from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/tOR7dhV ...

Iran's President makes no mention of explosions

The blasts resounded early Friday in the central province of Isfahan, state media said from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/GSQqU9B ...

U.N. sounds alarm on violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State

More than one million Rohingya fled Myanmar's Rakhine state to refugee camps in Bangladesh in 2017 after a military clampdown on the Muslim group in which many were killed from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/RDWMHa8 ...

Iran tells U.S. it does not seek 'expansion of tensions'

Iran and the United States have had no diplomatic relations since 1980. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/OEypLgD ...

12 jurors picked for Donald Trump's hush money trial; selection of alternates under way

The rapid progress April 18 afternoon propelled the case closer to opening statements and weeks of testimony from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/M9pkS7Y ...

Israel-Hamas talks on Gaza truce 'stalling': mediator Qatar

Negotiators are trying to "move forward and put an end to the suffering that the people in Gaza are experiencing and returning the hostages", Sheikh Mohammed said from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/7Bx2ISs ...

Retaliation without escalation: Netanyahu’s tough choice

After the April 14 attack by Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as well as the military have promised a forceful response, but the Prime Minister does not have any easy choices before him.  from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/tJmvihy ...

What caused the storm that led to Dubai floods? | Explained

Following the floods, questions were raised whether cloud seeding, a process that the UAE frequently conducts, could have caused the heavy rains. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/BX8e35a ...

Germany's Scholz seeks Chinese role in 'just peace' for Ukraine

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Heavy floods hit Dubai, airport as Oman toll rises to 18

Dubai’s international airport began diverting all incoming flights from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ExSdabq ...

Ukraine 'ran out' of missiles to defend key plant, Zelensky says

The Trypilska thermal power station was destroyed by Russian missiles on April 11. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/rHmsaoV ...

Taliban is ‘particularly committed’ to protect rights of Hindus and Sikhs: Spokesperson of Taliban ‘Justice Ministry’

The head of the Taliban’s political wing, Suhail Shaheen, had told The Hindu that the outfit had constituted a commission with the Justice Minister to restore property to the members of the two minority communities who were deprived of their homes and businesses by strongmen during the previous decades from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The...

Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's killer shot dead by gunmen in Pakistan

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IRGC | Guardians of the revolution

Iran’s elite military wing, which has helped the Islamic Republic spread its influence across West Asia through a network of militias, is under pressure as several of its top commanders were killed by purported Israeli air strikes in Syria in recent months from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/yMS9NUr ...

Jaishankar speaks to U.K. Foreign Secretary Cameron, discusses West Asia situation

Iranian military seized a cargo ship with Israeli links near the Strait of Hormuz, with 17 Indian crew members on board from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Ug2p3oV ...

King of leopard print, Italy's Roberto Cavalli dies at 83

Best known for his use of printed leather and stretchy, sand-blasted jeans, Mr. Cavalli always embraced the wow factor in his designs, never encountering an animal print he did not like from Lifestyle News, Fashion News, Lifestyle And Health, Vacation Ideas | The Hindu https://ift.tt/vtX6umo ...

Kremlin says 2022 draft document could serve as starting point for future Ukraine peace talks

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also noted that the possible future talks would need to take into account the ‘new realities’ from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/JQCdOuo ...

China urges U.S. to play 'constructive role' in Middle East

Mr. Blinken used the call to ask Beijing to use its influence to dissuade Iran from striking Israel, the State Department said from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/6IsU1Ma ...

Ukraine's parliament passes a controversial law for Army mobilisation

Ukraine’s parliament has passed a controversial law that will govern how the country calls up new soldiers at a time when it needs to replenish depleted forces who are increasingly struggling to fend off Russia’s advance from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/POUsGWm ...

Israel on alert after Iranian threat as Gaza war grinds on

Iran is "threatening to launch a significant attack on Israel," U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday, pledging "ironclad" support for its top regional ally despite diplomatic tensions over Israel's military conduct in Gaza from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/IkyMVtx ...

South Korea opposition wins landslide parliamentary vote in resounding blow to Yoon

The Democratic Party was projected to take more than 170 of the 300 seats in the new legislature, data by the National Election Commission and network broadcasters showed with more than 99% of the votes counted as of 5:55 a.m. on Thursday. from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/aXvdFsx ...

With eyes on China, U.S. and Japan vow new security collaboration

The two sides said a planned upgrade of their military command-and-control frameworks would enable greater interoperability and planning in peacetime and during conflicts from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/9hnkQyf ...

Biden says he's considering Australia's request to drop prosecution of Wikileaks founder Assange

WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson, responding to Mr. Biden's comments, said in a statement that “it is not too late for President Biden to stop Julian's extradition to the U.S., which was a politically motivated act by his predecessor” from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/aIy71cW ...

After Russian oil, India raises sanctions over Russian diamonds with Europe

Facing mounting losses over sanctions, Indian diamond exporters call for the EU-G7 to allow a local screening process; EAM, MEA raise the issue with the Belgian delegation from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/WJaBnQi ...

Turkiye and Israel announce trade barriers on each other as relations deteriorate over Gaza

Turkiye, a staunch critic of Israel’s military actions in the territory, announced that it was restricting exports of 54 types of products to Israel with immediate effect from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/j9l0Hhf ...

Appeals court rejects Donald Trump's latest attempt to delay April 15 hush money criminal trial

Justice Cynthia Kern’s ruling was the second time in as many days that the state's mid-level appeals court refused to postpone the trial from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/oShAZWN ...

Taliban restoring property to displaced Hindus and Sikhs: spokesman

A commission chaired by the Minister of Justice has been established to return to owners all properties which had been usurped by warlords during the former regime from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/lLVEegC ...

Vatican blasts gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as violations of human dignity

From a pope who has made outreach to the LGBTQ+ community a hallmark of his papacy, the document was a setback for trans Catholics. from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/oiOzwrv ...

Record flood waters rise in Russia's Urals, forcing thousands to evacuate

More than 4,000 people were evacuated in Orsk as swathes of the city of 230,000 were flooded. Footage published by the Emergencies Ministry showed people wading through neck-high waters from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/MUt6px2 ...

Iran says enemy will 'regret' Guards killings in Syria

Iran's response "will be carried out at the right time, with the necessary precision and planning, and with maximum damage to the enemy so that they regret their action," chief of staff Mohammad Bagheri said from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/jXxA2Cw ...

India abstains at U.N. Human Rights Council on vote calling for Gaza ceasefire, arms embargo against Israel

Four resolutions critical of Israel passed by 47-member HRC, India votes in favour of other 3 from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/2TEF3zV ...

Another Indian student dies in U.S, probe underway: Indian consulate in New York

The Consulate said that a police investigation into the death is underway, and it continues to remain in touch with the family in India from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/7KAu5No ...

Philippines to hold joint naval drills with U.S., Japan, Australia

The diplomatic sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the drills have not yet been officially announced. from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/3oDkwdC ...

Biden tells Netanyahu that U.S. support depends on protecting Gaza civilians

In their first call since the deaths of the employees of the U.S.-based World Central Kitchen group, Mr. Biden called for an ‘immediate ceasefire’ after the ‘unacceptable’ attack and wider humanitarian situation in Gaza from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/wDfuNtx ...

UN rights council to consider call for Israel arms embargo

The text condemns "the use of explosive weapons with wide-area effects by Israel" in populated areas of Gaza from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/R1lh29Z ...

Ukraine lowers its conscription age to 25 to plug a shortfall in troop numbers fighting Russia

The President said he was not ready to tell journalists how many new conscripts the Ukrainian army will need. from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/rd8Dt9M ...

WhatsApp down for thousands, Downdetector shows

More than 30,000 users in India, over 67,000 in the United Kingdom and 95,000 in Brazil reported problems with the platform. from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/vdtmCbP ...

Morning Digest | Sri Lankan media hit out at Modi’s Katchatheevu remarks; Kejriwal the ‘kingpin’, ‘key conspirator’ in Delhi Excise policy case, says ED, and more

Here is a select list of stories to start the day from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/BCtbE8H ...

Biden and Xi discuss Taiwan, AI and fentanyl in a push to return to regular leader talks

The call, described by the White House as ‘candid and constructive’, was the leaders’ first conversation since their November summit in California produced renewed ties between the two nations’ militaries  from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/nIHaN7B ...

Russia says it is working on removing Taliban from its terrorist list

"This is a country that is next to us, and one way or another we communicate with them," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/D028eAO ...

Gangs and police clash again in Haiti

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