Your daily dose of insights
US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a press briefing at the White House, following the Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump had exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs, in Washington, DC, US, February 20, 2026. Photo: Reuters President Donald Trump’s escalating threats against Iran have raised fresh questions about Washington’s long-term strategy, … Read more
Inmates at Rodeo I protest exclusion from new amnesty law after Maduro’s ouster An image posted on US President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account shows Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro onboard the USS Iwo Jima after American military captured him. Photo: Reuters VENEZUELA: More than 200 Venezuelan political prisoners were on hunger strike Sunday to demand … Read more
MEXICO CITY: One of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords, Nemesio Oseguera, or “El Mencho,” was killed in a military raid on Sunday, sparking widespread retaliatory violence. President Claudia Sheinbaum has been under mounting pressure from Washington to intensify her offensive against drug cartels blamed for producing and smuggling drugs, particularly the synthetic opioid fentanyl, across … Read more
Beijing urges Washington to lift ‘unilateral tariff measures’ after highest court strikes down levies HONG KONG/ SEOUL/ BEIJING: China is making a “full assessment” of the United States Supreme Court’s tariff ruling and has urged Washington to lift “unilateral tariff measures” on its trading partners, warning that fighting between the two countries is “harmful”. The … Read more
Mayor Mamdani declares a state of emergency, orders non-essential vehicles off city roads from Sunday night People walk on a street as snow falls during a winter storm in New York City, US, February 22 PHOTO: REUTERS Children across parts of the US Northeast will stay home on Monday as a powerful winter storm forced … Read more
Eberechi Eze scored twice in Arsenal’s win at Tottenham. Photo: AFP LONDON: Eberechi Eze was the scourge of Tottenham again as his double restored Arsenal’s five-point lead at the top of the Premier League in a 4-1 win on Sunday, while Liverpool needed Alexis Mac Allister’s 97th-minute goal to beat Nottingham Forest 1-0. Eze, who … Read more
SEOUL: South Korea has asked the Russian embassy in Seoul to take down a large banner reading “Victory will be ours”, its foreign ministry said, just ahead of this week’s fourth anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine. The ministry said in a statement on Sunday that it had conveyed its concerns to … Read more
The Tour Montparnasse is one of Paris’s least-loved landmarks. After half a century, it’s finally being remodeled.
. A woman prays by one of the makeshift graves of those buried in Khartoum’s southern suburb of al-Azhari on August 2, 2025 when the area was under control of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries, which will be exhumed for reburial in the local cemetery.PHOTO: AFP KHARTOUM: A landmine explosion killed nine people in … Read more
Barcelona midfielder Fermin Lopez celebrates scoring his team’s third goal in the comfortable win over Levante on Sunday in La Liga. Photo: AFP BARCELONA: Barcelona cruised to a 3-0 victory over Levante to reclaim pole position in La Liga on Sunday. After Real Madrid fell to a 2-1 defeat at Osasuna on Saturday, Hansi Flick’s … Read more