Russia hammered Ukraine with missiles and drones on Saturday, killing five people and causing damage across several regions of the country, Ukrainian officials said. The main target was energy infrastructure outside the capital Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, adding that residential buildings, schools and businesses were also damaged. He said the Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro and […]
President Donald Trump’s administration has rebuffed efforts by Middle Eastern allies to start diplomatic negotiations aimed at ending the Iran war that started two weeks ago with a massive US-Israeli air assault, according to three sources familiar with the efforts. Iran, for its part, has rejected the possibility of any ceasefire until US and Israeli […]
Senior officials from China and the United States are beginning a new round of economic and trade talks on Sunday in Paris, which will continue until March 17, with analysts expecting discussions to focus on extending their tariff truce, easing export controls and exploring areas of shared economic interest between the world’s two largest economies. […]
United States President Donald Trump on Saturday urged other nations to send ships to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, the critical chokepoint for global oil supplies disrupted by the Mideast war. Trump, who has said the US will soon start escorting tankers through the strait, posted on Truth Social that “Many countries, especially those who […]
Juergen Habermas, best-known for his theory of political consensus-building, shaped the discourse of post-war Germany more than any other popular intellectual. He died on Saturday, aged 96, in Starnberg, Germany, the publisher Suhrkamp said. Over the course of seven decades, his public interventions, from searing critiques of fascist thought in the 1950s to more recent warnings […]
India on Saturday ended the preventive detention of prominent activist Sonam Wangchuk, freeing him six months after he was arrested over protests in India-held Ladakh. The Buddhist-Muslim enclave was deprived of its autonomy in 2019 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government carved it out of occupied Kashmir, placing the region under New Delhi’s direct control. […]
England paceman Mark Wood said his recovery from a knee injury is “real slow going” but the 36-year-old knows that at this stage of his career it could all be over if he pushes too hard. Wood returned to the longest format after 15 months to feature in the first Ashes test against Australia in […]
Manchester United’s interim manager Michael Carrick on Friday said his players were “itching to get going” again when they host fellow Champions League hopefuls Aston Villa, after suffering their first defeat under his leadership. Last week, 10-man Newcastle United ended Carrick’s unbeaten run after William Osula came off the bench to score a spectacular 90th-minute […]
Four-time world champion Max Verstappen cut a disconsolate figure Saturday after qualifying only eighth for the Chinese Grand Prix, saying every lap in his underperforming Red Bull was about “survival”. The once dominant Red Bulls have suffered more than most from Formula One’s sweeping new regulations in 2026. Verstappen failed to finish in the points […]
Pyramids of Egypt preserved an unbeaten record in defence of the CAF Champions League title by coming from behind to draw 1-1 at FAR Rabat of Morocco late on Friday. The home team were ahead after just eight minutes of the quarter-final first leg when Ahmed Hammoudan scored his first goal of the campaign. Mahmoud […]