Top Iranian military commanders killed in Israeli strikes: Who were they?

Top Iranian military commanders killed in Israeli strikes: Who were they?

Israeli strikes on Friday morning dealt one of the most severe blows to Iran’s military and nuclear leadership in decades, killing a number of the country’s top military commanders, nuclear scientists, and political figures. Iranian state media, senior officials, and international news outlets, including The New York Times and Associated Press, confirmed the deaths. Here … Read more

Trump’s visa order leaves international students with a ‘sense of inferiority’

Trump’s visa order leaves international students with a ‘sense of inferiority’

US President Donald Trump once pledged to welcome international students with open arms. While campaigning, he promised to grant green cards to all foreign graduates of US colleges. Speaking in a podcast interview last June, he had said: “It’s so sad when we lose people from Harvard, MIT, from the greatest schools… That is going … Read more

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court restores Jamaat-e-Islami’s party registration

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court restores Jamaat-e-Islami’s party registration

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Sunday ordered the Election Commission to restore the rightwing Jamaat-e-Islami’s party registration, nearly eight months after the interim government lifted a ban on it, clearing the way for its participation in future elections. Court officials said the SC’s Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed, directed the commission to … Read more

US appeals court keeps block on Trump administration’s federal workforce cuts

US appeals court keeps block on Trump administration’s federal workforce cuts

A US federal appeals court on Friday declined to freeze a lower court ruling that has temporarily halted the Trump administration’s attempt to shrink the federal workforce. The decision ensures that the order issued by US District Judge Susan Illston remains in effect, pausing the cuts for now. President Donald Trump’s administration had asked the … Read more

Trump to rally in Pennsylvania to endorse Nippon–US steel deal he once vowed to block

Trump to rally in Pennsylvania to endorse Nippon–US steel deal he once vowed to block

Donald Trump is set to hold a rally in Pennsylvania Friday to celebrate a prospective deal with Japan-based Nippon Steel to invest in US Steel — a move he claims will keep the historic American steelmaker under the country’s control. The rally comes after Trump, who had earlier pledged to block the acquisition of Pittsburgh-based … Read more

Day after getting struck down, US court temporarily reinstates Trump tariffs

Day after getting struck down, US court temporarily reinstates Trump tariffs

An appeals court Thursday allowed US President Donald Trump’s April 2 tariffs on countries to remain in place for now, till the White House’s appeal against the US trade court ruling of Wednesday makes its way through the courts. The trade court blocked Trump’s global tariffs, saying the president had overstepped his authority and hence … Read more

Australia’s Defence Minister to meet US, Japan counterparts in first trilateral since Trump took office

Australia’s Defence Minister to meet US, Japan counterparts in first trilateral since Trump took office

Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles is set to meet his US and Japanese counterparts this week at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, marking the first trilateral defence talks among the three countries since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. The high-level meeting will include US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Defence … Read more

Macron arrives in Vietnam, signs key deals on aircraft, defence and satellites amid US tariff threats

Macron arrives in Vietnam, signs key deals on aircraft, defence and satellites amid US tariff threats

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Hanoi on Monday for his first official visit to Vietnam, marking the first such visit by a French head of state in nearly a decade. The trip saw the signing of a row of bilateral agreements, including deals for Airbus aircraft, defence cooperation, and satellite collaboration, as both nations … Read more

‘Little bit of contradiction’: Trump admin releases ‘illegal’ migrants to US-Mexico border shelters it threatened to prosecute

‘Little bit of contradiction’: Trump admin releases ‘illegal’ migrants to US-Mexico border shelters it threatened to prosecute

Weeks after federal authorities warned border shelters that aiding migrants could amount to criminal activity, the Trump administration has continued to release people charged with being in the US illegally to those very organisations — creating what some shelter operators are calling a confusing and contradictory situation. On March 11, the Federal Emergency Management Agency … Read more

Who won a seat at Trump’s crypto dinner?

Who won a seat at Trump’s crypto dinner?

The invitees for President Donald Trump’s private dinner for customers of his cryptocurrency business on Thursday included a Chinese billionaire fighting a lawsuit from US regulators, a lawyer for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a former basketball star, according to a guest list obtained by The New York Times and social media posts. The … Read more