In India, Immigration Raids Detain Thousands and Create a Climate of Fear
Thousands of Indian Bengali-speakers, most of them Muslims, have been rounded up, detained or expelled from India to Bangladesh.
Day: August 11, 2025
Nvidia and AMD agree to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US
Chipmakers agree to deal amid Trump trade war as condition for obtaining export licences for Chinese marketThe chipmakers Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15% of their revenue from advanced chips sold to China in return for export l…
Defiant Netanyahu sets out plan for military escalation in Gaza – and describes photographs of starving babies as ‘fake news’
Israel’s prime minister added more detail to his deeply controversial plans for military escalation in Gaza at a news conference with foreign media yesterday – despite the condemnation of the UN Security Council, which met in an emergency session and u…
Sunflower Festival in Snohomish makes for perfect summer selfies
Mountainview Blueberry Farm’s Sunflower Festival in Snohomish features 25 types of sunflowers, along with other flower varieties.
Israel kills Anas al-Sharif and four other Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza
Anas al-Sharif along with four other Al Jazeera journalists have been killed by an Israeli attack.
Man survives after clinging to high-speed Austrian train after getting off to have a cigarette
The man grabbed on to the outside of the train at St Poelten, west of Vienna, and was later taken aboard after it performed an emergency stopA man has survived clinging to the outside of a high-speed train in Austria, the state railway said, after it r…
Netanyahu defending plan to expand war in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is defending his decision to keep fighting in Gaza, despite protests at home and abroad. Debora Patta has the latest.
INS Tamal Concludes Successful Port Visit To Casablanca, Strengthens India-Morocco Naval Ties
The Indian Navy’s newest stealth frigate, INS Tamal, successfully concluded a significant three-day port visit to Casablanca, Morocco, from August 6 to August 9, 2025, marking yet another milestone in India’s maritime diplomacy and strengthening the already growing strategic and defence cooperation between India and Morocco.This visit was particularly notable as INS Tamal became the third Indian
‘Sturgeon moon’ rises over Seattle, and it’s quite the catch
The sturgeon moon was also a supermoon, meaning a full moon at the point in its elliptical orbit that’s close to Earth.
Sources: SoftBank has selected banks for a potential US IPO of its payments app operator PayPay, which may raise over $2B and could take place as soon as Q4 (Reuters)
Reuters:
Sources: SoftBank has selected banks for a potential US IPO of its payments app operator PayPay, which may raise over $2B and could take place as soon as Q4 — SoftBank (9984.T) has selected investment banks to help organize…