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South Sudan opens new camp to receive refugees from Sudan

New Delhi: South Sudan has opened a new refugee camp in its northern region to receive people fleeing conflicts in neighbouring Sudan, a senior...

Cyclone Mocha may have killed ‘hundreds’ in Myanmar’s Rakhine

New Delhi: Rescue and relief efforts are under way in northwestern Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh after Cyclone Mocha crashed ashore, with one humanitarian group...

Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande leaves for Egypt

New Delhi: Chief of Army Staff Gen Manoj Pande on Monday left for a visit to Egypt to hold wide-ranging talks with the top...

Palestine warns of humanitarian crisis, holds Israel responsible for current tension

Occupied West Bank: Palestine holds Israel “fully and directly responsible” for the flaring violent tension with Palestinian military groups in the Gaza Strip, and...

Long-anticipated Ukraine counteroffensive soon: Zelenskyy

Rome: The first important steps of a highly-anticipated military counteroffensive against Russian forces would be taken soon, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he...

Cyclone Mocha makes landfall along Bangladesh, Myanmar coasts

Dhaka: Super cyclone Mocha made landfall along the Myanmar-Bangladesh coasts on Sunday after intensifying into the equivalent of a category-five storm, a senior Met...

Jaishankar discusses Indo-Pacific, Ukraine war with his 8 counterparts in Sweden

Stockholm: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has discussed a range of issues, including the Indo-Pacific and the Ukraine war, during his meetings here with...

198 Indian fishermen released from Pakistani jail

Karachi: Pakistani authorities have released 198 Indian fishermen, who were languishing at a jail here after being arrested for allegedly fishing illegally in the...

Warring parties in Sudan sign agreement to avoid harming civilians

Jeddah: The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have signed a preliminary agreement in the Saudi port city of Jeddah to...

Hundreds of thousands to be evacuated as Bangladesh, Myanmar brace for severe cyclone threat

Dhaka: Authorities in Bangladesh and Myanmar prepared to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people Friday, warning them to stay away from coastal areas as...

Sri Lanka to convert 500,000 tuk-tuks to EVs

New Delhi: Facing a severe energy crisis amid the financial downturn, Sri Lanka mulls to switch to electric mobility by converting 500,000 ‘tuk-tuks’ (autorickshaws)...

Israel strikes on Gaza, killing 13 people including four children

Gaza: Israel has carried out a series of strikes on Gaza, killing at least 13 people, including three members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad...

‘Imran Khan arrested from outside Islamabad High Court’

Islamabad: Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan was on Tuesday arrested by paramilitary Rangers while he was present at the Islamabad High Court for...

Texas mall shooting prompts Biden to renew call for gun control

Washington: US President Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass gun control bills in the wake of yet another mass shooting that left...

Donald Trump will not testify in New York rape, defamation trial

New York: Former US President Donald Trump will not testify at a civil trial to challenge claims made by writer E. Jean Carroll that...

Russia launches mass strikes on Ukraine ahead of May 9 Victory Day holiday

Kyiv: Russia launched a large-scale wave of strikes on Kyiv and across Ukraine sowing destruction and injuries, officials said early on Monday, as Moscow...

India, Russia suspend negotiations to settle trade in rupees: Report

New Delhi/Mumbai: India and Russia have suspended efforts to settle bilateral trade in rupees, after months of negotiations failed to convince Moscow to keep...

Ukraine denies Kiev’s involvement in Kremlin drone attack

Kyiv: Ukraine has denied Kiev’s involvement in the alleged drone attack on the Kremlin, which Russia says was an attempt on President Vladimir Putin’s...

Plan to distribute Sudan relief awaits protection promises: UN

Port Sudan: The UN relief chief has said his colleagues are ready to distribute aid supplies in Sudan but need firm commitments of protection...

No handshake, Jaishankar greets Bilawal, Qin, other SCO counterparts with Namaste

Benaulim (Goa): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday greeted his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, China's Qin Gang and other foreign ministers with a...

‘Ability of Ukrainian, Western friends to lie’: Russia’s FM on drone attack

New Delhi: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday said that Ukraine’s denial of its role in the alleged drone attack on the Kremlin...

Sri Lanka’s President calls for unity in solidarity to build affluent nation

Colombo: President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday called on Sri Lankans facing "troubled times" due to the unprecedented economic crisis to unite to rebuild an...

Another US bank closed, JP Morgan to acquire assets of First Republic Bank

New Delhi: US-based First Republic Bank was closed on Monday (local time) by the local regulators and entered into an agreement with JP Morgan...

Global glaciers lost ice equivalent to weight of 4 trillion cows in one decade

Washington: If you were asked to imagine the damaging effects of climate change, the first image that pops into your head would probably be...

Bill Gates predicts AI chatbots will aid in teaching kids 18 months from now

Washington: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has predicted that AI chatbots will help children learn to read and enhance their writing skills in just 18...

UAE’s Sultan Al Neyadi makes history as first Arab astronaut to walk in space

Dubai: After already writing on the pages of history by becoming the first Arab astronaut to go on a long-term mission in space, Sultan...

UNSC unanimously condemns Taliban’s decision to ban Afghan women from working for UN

United Nations: The UN Security Council has unanimously condemned the decision by the Taliban to ban Afghan women from working for the United Nations...

Airstrikes, artillery continue as Sudan fighting enters third week

Beirut: The sounds of air strikes, anti-aircraft weaponry and artillery could be heard in Khartoum early on Saturday and dark smoke rose over parts...

Armenia and Azerbaijan to hold peace settlement talks in Washington today

Moscow: Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold a new round of talks in Washington on Sunday to try to normalise relations, the spokesperson of Armenia’s...

PM Modi set to attend G7, Quad summits in Japan, Australia

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to join US President Joe Biden and his counterparts from Australia and Japan at a summit...

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