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Sep 5, 2025 - World

Mere moments after President Donald Trump took to social media Friday to complain about having “lost” India to China, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivered a vicious snub to the Trump administration on an issue that has sparked the president’s fury.The Trump administration has slapped India with its highest tariff rate of 50%; a 25% baseline tariff, and an additional 25% secondary tariff as a penalty for its continued purchasing of Russian oil. Trump was reportedly “completely upset” with India over its refusal to halt its purchasing of Russian oil, and Friday, bemoaned the two countries’ “lost” relationship.Just moments after Trump’s social media musings, however, India defied Trump yet again, with Sitharaman declaring that India would continue to do “what suits us best.”“Where we buy our oil from, especially a big-ticket foreign exchange item where we pay so much, highest in terms of import, we will have to take a call on what suits us best,” Sitharaman said, speaking in a televised interview on Friday, Bloomberg reported. “We will undoubtedly be buying.”India had already responded to the Trump administration’s steep tariffs, halting the purchase of billions of dollars’ worth of American-made weapons. The nation paused a previously-planned purchase of Boeing planes, Javelin missiles and combat vehicles in early August, a decision that will likely land a significant blow to American arms manufacturers, with India being the world’s second-largest arms importer.The snub also comes in the wake of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit this week in eastern China, further forming a wedge between the United States and India.

Sep 5, 2025 - World

Aid agencies plead for funds as rough terrain hinders relief effort and 98% of buildings in one province are damagedThe death toll from a major earthquake in Afghanistan this week has jumped to more than 2,200, just as another magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit the southeastern region of the country on Thursday night.On Thursday, Taliban spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat confirmed that the death toll from Sunday’s earthquake had risen to 2,205 – up from previous estimates of 1,400 – making it one of the deadliest natural disasters to hit the country in decades. Continue reading...

Sep 5, 2025 - World

Textiles, footwear, jewellery, gems and seafood are sectors most affected in trade with US, India’s biggest marketIndia has long been one of the world’s great garment houses, turning out everything from cheap T-shirts to intricate embroidery. Last year, textile and garment exports to the US alone fetched £21bn, riding a wave of strong consumer demand.Now the trade is in jeopardy. With the stroke of a pen, the US president, Donald Trump, last week slapped a 50% tariff on more than half of India’s £65bn worth of merchandise exports to the country’s largest market. A supply chain once prized for being cheap suddenly became among the priciest. Continue reading...

Sep 3, 2025 - World

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping were caught discussing how to use organ harvesting to become immortal.During Putin's visit with Xi on Wednesday, the two leaders spoke while attending China's Victory Day parade. The men, both 72, could be heard on CCTV discussing aspirations to live to 150."Earlier, people rarely lived to 70, but these days at 70 you are still a child," Xi told Putin, according to a translation."With the development of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted and people can live younger and younger, and even achieve immortality," Putin agreed."Predictions are, this century, there is also a chance of living to 150," Xi replied.Last year, Putin reportedly ordered the Kremlin to rapidly increase anti-aging research."It's creepy to say the least," Michael Allen, a former national security official, told Fox News. "But it was strange and weird, no doubt about that. And deeply menacing."Watch the video below from Fox News.

Sep 3, 2025 - World

Doctors, nurses, patients and other experts describe the loss of decades of progress in beating the virus in 100 days after Pepfar was disruptedAid cuts in east Africa have led to cases of babies being born with HIV because mothers could not get medication, a rise in life-threatening infections, and at least one woman having an unwanted abortion, according to interviews with medical staff, patients and experts.A report by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) sets out dozens of examples of the impact of disruption to Pepfar – the president’s emergency plan for aids relief – in Tanzania and Uganda. Continue reading...