FILE – President Donald Trump holds a signed an executive order relating to school discipline policies as Education Secretary Linda McMahon listens in the Oval Office of the White House, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file) Republican-led states are intensifying a sweeping campaign to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, expanding…
Iran on Friday offered to mediate between India and Pakistan to ease growing hostilities in the aftermath of the deadly Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians, mostly tourists. On the same day, Saudi foreign minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud spoke separately with his counterparts in New Delhi and Islamabad amid fears of military…
The evolving landscape of migrant students’ rights in the US amid immigration debates Amid mounting immigration anxieties across the United States, universities are emerging as strongholds of solidarity, offering not only reassurances but concrete support to international students facing an increasingly hostile climate under the Trump administration‘s evolving immigration policies.From misinformation to abrupt visa cancellations,…
After three days of global market turmoil not seen since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, stocks in Asia regained a measure of calm on Tuesday despite little let up in the escalating trade tensions caused by President Trump’s tariffs. Before markets opened in China, the government unleashed a series of measures to stabilize…
Wall Street and global markets took a sharp downturn Thursday following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of new tariffs on imports from around the world, stoking fears of an escalating trade war and rising recession risks, news agency AP reported. Futures for the S&P 500 plunged 3.4%, while Dow Jones Industrial Average futures dropped 2.8%,…
An airstrike by South Sudan’s airforce killed at least 19 people in the country’s east, residents said, less than two weeks after government forces withdrew from the area following intense fighting with an ethnic militia. The clashes in Nasir, near the Ethiopian border, between national forces and the White Army, a loosely organised group mostly…
The decision by the Biden administration to allow Ukrainian forces to use long range American-made missile to target Russia marks a new round of tension in the Ukraine-Russia war, Kremlin said. “If such a decision was really formulated and communicated to the Kyiv regime, then, of course, this is a qualitatively new round of tension…