WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating a “teapot” oil refinery and its chief executive officer for purchasing and refining hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Iranian crude oil, including from vessels linked to the Foreign Terrorist Organization, Ansarallah, commonly known as the Houthis, and the…
Last Updated:March 20, 2025, 14:59 IST At least 70 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza on Thursday. At least 70 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza on Thursday. (Image: X/IDF) Israel on Thursday said that it has extended its ground operations and killed hundreds in…
Mar 20, 2025 10:25 AM IST The United States dropped to a record low in the 2025 World Happiness Report, continuing its downward path. The United States dropped to a record low in the 2025 World Happiness Report, continuing its downward path. The US fell out of the top 20 in 2024 for the first…
CNN — The Israeli military intercepted a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels early Thursday morning, the second to target Israel since the Gaza ceasefire ended on Tuesday. The Iran-backed Houthi group claimed responsibility for what it said was a ballistic missile fired in support of Palestinians and in response to Israel’s renewed bombardment of…
New Delhi: US President Donald Trump has pledged to help Ukraine get more air defence equipment from Europe as Kyiv’s forces battle Russia, the White House said Wednesday. In a phone conversation Tuesday, Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky also agreed that their defence staffs will “share information closely” as the battlefield situation evolves,…
Kyiv: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he discussed Russian and Ukrainian requests and needs for a peace deal in an hour-long call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Much of the discussion was based on the call made yesterday with President Putin in order to align both Russia and Ukraine in terms of their…
Elon Musk likely exercised unconstitutional authority in shutting down USAID, an Obama-appointed judge said. A federal judge Tuesday rules that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency likely exercised unconstitutional authority “in multiple ways” in dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Theodore Chuang‘s ruling came in a case of 26 workers of…
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during their call on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) to seek a limited ceasefire against energy and infrastructure targets in the Russia-Ukraine war, according to the White House. The White House described it as the first step in a “movement to peace” it hopes will eventually include…
Washington DC / Moscow: Nearly three weeks after a disasterous meeting with Ukraine’s President Zelensky at the White House where the two leaders aimed at a peaceful end to the years=long war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump today dialled his Russian counterpart in a fresh attempt to find an end to the conflict. Donald Trump,…
Aftermath of Israel’s Tuesday strike in Gaza (AP photo) Hamas on Tuesday claimed the head of its government in Gaza was killed in a spate of Israeli strikes that killed more than 300 people in the strip.The Palestinian militant wing said Essam al-Dalis was on a list of officials killed in the aerial action by…
