The vibrant city of Los Angeles descended into chaos as protests over aggressive immigration raids spiraled into riots. The unrest happens to be the city’s worst civil disturbances since the 1992 Rodney King riots.
A multi-party delegation of parliamentarians led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday (June 5, 2025) met U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and had “comprehensive” discussions covering a wide array of critical issues, from counter-terrorism efforts to enhancing technological cooperation.
Pakistan is set to chair the 1988 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Sanctions Committee on the Taliban till 31 December, 2025, while also serving as one of the vice-chairs of the Counter-Terrorism Committee. The Security Council makes these appointments based on a consensus among current member-states.
A US federal court has struck down President Donald Trump’s expansive tariff regime, dealing a serious setback to one of the president’s central economic strategies.
The Court of International Trade in Manhattan ruled that the White House overstepped its legal authority by unilaterally imposing tariffs on a broad range of countries under the guise of a national emergency, reports BBC and other international media.
Iraq was scarred by US hostilities after allegations of processing weapons of mass destruction/ chemical weapons were raised against it. It is another matter such weapons were never found.
But the international community whose part and parcel US is continue to watch from the sidelines as charges of use of chemical weapons have been raised against the Sudanese army. And such weapons having been allegedly used against the Sudanese populace makes it a toxic allegation.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered US embassies worldwide to stop scheduling interviews for student visas as the Trump administration weighs stricter vetting of applicants’ social-media profiles.
The directive, laid out in a cable sent to diplomats worldwide on Tuesday, marks the latest effort by the administration to restrict foreign students’ entry to American schools over claims that they might threaten US national security or promote antisemitism.
US President Donald Trump warned Apple CEO Tim Cook that tariffs of upto 25% might be levied on Iphones manufactured outside the U.S, in an aim to curb Apple’s manufacturing unit’s expansion into India. Trump’s May 2025 Truth Social post stated, “I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone’s that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else.”
After controversial comments of relocating Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip, US President Donald Trump has expressed wishes to physically acquire Gaza.
