Beyond Today, Into Tomorrow
SEOUL, South Korea: Italy’s prime minister called US President Donald Trump’s threat to slap tariffs on opponents of his plan to seize Greenland a “mistake” on Sunday, adding she had told him her views. “I believe that imposing new sanctions today would be a mistake,” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told journalists during a trip to…
Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis chased off a small group of far-right activists who had vowed to march on a neighborhood where many immigrants live on Saturday, stoking tensions in a city on edge after the killing of Renee Good by a federal immigration agent 10 days ago. Waving signs and screaming chants that…
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Saturday vowed to implement a wave of increasing tariffs on European allies until the United States is allowed to buy Greenland, escalating a row over the future of Denmark’s vast Arctic island. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said additional 10% import tariffs would take effect on February 1…
PARIS: Iranian authorities on Saturday said they had arrested members of the Bahai minority they accused of having been active in what they call “riots”, the Tasnim news agency reported, after the wave of protests that gripped the country. The Bahais, Iran’s biggest non-Muslim religious minority, regularly experience persecution and the Islamic republic has accused…
MAKASSAR, Indonesia: Rescuers on Sunday found the debris from a small plane that went missing in eastern Indonesia, but have yet to locate the 10 passengers who were on board, officials said. The Indonesian Air Transport turboprop plane lost contact with the air traffic controller on Saturday afternoon while en route from Yogyakarta to the…
BEIRUT, Lebanon: Kurdish-led forces withdrew on Sunday from Syria’s largest oil field in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, a monitor said, as their fighters clashed with government soldiers who have extended their grip on Kurdish-run areas in recent days. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) “withdrew at dawn on Sunday from all areas under its…
WASHINGTON: A US judge on Friday restricted federal agents from interfering with peaceful protesters in Minnesota, ordering immigration agents to dial back aggressive tactics shortly after President Donald Trump said there was no immediate need to invoke the Insurrection Act regarding the demonstrations. US District Judge Katherine Menendez barred the detention or arrest of peaceful…
KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban government said on Saturday its goal was “to help all malnourished children and mothers”, after the United Nations warned that millions would experience acute malnutrition this year. The World Food Programme’s Afghanistan director John Aylieff said this week that five million women and children would experience life-threatening malnutrition in a worsening crisis…
• Duties start at 10pc on eight nations from Feb 1 and could rise to 25pc in June; penalties to remain until deal is complete • Denmark, UK, France and Germany among nations targeted; thousands rally in Nuuk as PM joins chants of ‘Make America Go Away’ • US lawmakers call govt push ‘misguided’ WASHINGTON:…
• Decree declares Kurdish a ‘national language’ of Syria • US envoy meets head of Syrian Kurdish forces in Iraq DEIR HAFER/ERBIL: Syria’s army said on Saturday that its forces had taken control of swathes of the region east of Aleppo city after Kurdish forces agreed to withdraw following recent clashes. The advance comes a…
