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Qatar Airways business class Boeing 777-300ER. Photo: Collected
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Qatar Airways orders 160 Boeing twin-aisle jets during Trump visit

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the White House in Washington, US, February 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
World+Biz

Bypassed by Trump, Israel dismayed but silent

Just how far the US is willing to go in appeasing Putin and rewarding the invasion of a sovereign neighbour remains unclear. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

Putin, Trump to skip Ukraine's peace talks that Russian leader proposed

Ex-president of Uruguay José Mujica. Photo: BBC
World+Biz

Known as world's 'poorest president', Uruguay's José Mujica no more

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump talk during a bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

Putin and Trump still 'maybes' for Ukraine peace talks that Russian leader proposed

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets with US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in this handout released on 14 May 2025. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

Syrian leader Sharaa's path from global jihad to meeting Trump

European Union flags fly outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium September 19, 2019/ Reuters
Europe

EU agrees 17th package of sanctions on Russia

The Meharists are part of Mauritania's National Guard. Photo: AFP
Africa

On patrol for jihadists with Mauritania's camel cavalry

French President Emmanuel Macron reacts during a press conference about the priorities of his Renaissance party and its allies ahead of the early legislative elections in Paris, France, June 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Stephane Mahe/ File Photo
Europe

Macron says France does not want 'World War III' over Ukraine

Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA) attends a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, December 3, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
Middle East

UN relief chief urges action 'to prevent genocide' in Gaza

A general view of the green zone in Kabul, Afghanistan. File photo: Reuters/Omar Sobhani
Middle East

Kabul says ready for 'dialogue' with US on Afghan refugees

A view of the Business School campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, April 15, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Faith Ninivaggi/File Photo
USA

Harvard expands lawsuit after Trump cancels $450 million more in grants

Pharmaceutical tablets and capsules are arranged in the shape of an Euro currency sign on a table in this picture illustration taken in Ljubljana August 20, 2014. Photo: REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic/File Photo
Europe

European governments scramble to interpret Trump's new drug pricing order