Families and supporters attend a demonstration calling for the immediate return of hostages held in Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, outside the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem on February 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Hamas official said on Tuesday (February 11, 2025) Israeli hostages can be brought home from Gaza … Read more
FILE – President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the White House on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) | Photo Credit: Evan Vucci (This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in … Read more
This photo provided by Instagram account @donniefitz2 shows fire crews at the Scottsdale Airport in Scottsdale, Arizona, following the collision of two jets on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP At least one person was killed and others were injured when private jets collided Monday (February 11, 2024) afternoon at the Scottsdale Airport … Read more
President Donald Trump is moving to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper straws “don’t work” and don’t last very long. “It’s a ridiculous situation. We’re going back to plastic straws,” Mr. Trump said Monday (February 10, 2025) as he signed an executive order to review federal purchasing policies that restrict … Read more
The body of a victim is carried, following a deadly bus crash, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on February 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters At least 55 people are dead after their bus plunged into a gorge and landed under a bridge Monday on the outskirts of Guatemala’s capital. Investigators from the Public Ministry said … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump warned Monday (February 10, 2025) that “all hell” would break loose if every Israeli hostage is not released from Gaza within days after Hamas threatened to postpone further exchanges under a fragile ceasefire deal it said Israel was violating. The truce that went into effect on January 19 largely halted more … Read more
Only 95,000 tonnes of steel were exported to the U.S last year from India’s total output of 145 million tonnes. | Photo Credit: PTI President Donald Trump’s latest salvo of a 25% blanket tariff on all imports of steel and aluminium into the U.S. are the latest in a series of announcements and executive orders, … Read more
A notice outside a clinic states that Wits RHI Key Population Programme is unable to provide services until further notice following a USAID notification to pause the programme in Cape Town, South Africa, on January 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Major refugee aid groups sued the Trump administration on Monday (February 11, 2025) over … Read more
President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. File | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump’s senior advisers are expected to meet with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference to discuss the path toward ending Russia’s nearly three-year war in Ukraine. Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, … Read more
It wouldn’t be the first time the U.S. eliminated its least valuable coin. The half-cent coin was discontinued by Congress in 1857. | Photo Credit: AFP President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin. “For far too long the … Read more