SINGAPORE: Indians across the world on Monday enthusiastically celebrated the 75th anniversary of India's Independence by hoisting the tricolour and singing the national anthem...
BEIJING: China's military said it carried out more exercises near Taiwan on Monday as a group of US lawmakers visited the Chinese-claimed island and...
COLOMBO: The security of India and Sri Lanka is enhanced by mutual understanding, mutual trust and cooperation, the Indian envoy here said on Monday,...
BANGKOK: A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country's ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on more corruption charges on Monday and sentenced her...
WASHINGTON: There is an "uneasy peace" in the Indo-Pacific due to recent Chinese actions, an influential US Congressman said on Saturday, observing that India...
WASHINGTON: The United States will boost trade with Taiwan in response to China's "provocative" behaviour, the White House said on Friday, as it insisted...
Washington: China’s actions to “intimidate and coerce” Taiwan following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei are fundamentally at odds with the goal...
New York: The 24-year-old man detained in connection with the stabbing of Mumbai-born controversial author Salman Rushdie was sympathetic to "Shia extremism" and the...
UNITED NATIONS: India has expressed concern over reports of shelling near the spent fuel storage facility of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine...
INDONESIA: Soldiers from the US, Indonesia and Australia joined a live-fire drill on Friday, part of annual joint combat exercises on Sumatra island amid...
BEIJING: China on Thursday renewed its threat to attack Taiwan following almost a week of war games near the island.
Taiwan has called Beijing's claims...
LONDON: Britain's prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak has insisted that he would rather lose the Conservative Party leadership race to replace Boris Johnson than...
COLOMBO: Several features, including curbing the Sri Lankan President's power to sack the Prime Minister and the Cabinet, have been included in the draft...
BEIJING: China on Wednesday reaffirmed its threat to use military force to bring self-governing Taiwan under its control, amid threatening Chinese military exercises that...
LONDON: The UK on Wednesday summoned China's ambassador demanding he explains Beijing's "aggressive behaviour" and "escalation" of actions targeted at Taiwan in recent days.
Foreign...
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s unprecedented anti-government protests that removed the influential Rajapaksa family from power for mishandling the country’s worst economic crisis formally ended after...
KYIV: Ukraine's air force said Wednesday that nine Russian warplanes were destroyed in massive explosions at an air base in Crimea amid speculation they...
LONDON: The UK's Meteorological (Met) Office on Wednesday issued a four-day amber extreme heat warning as the country braces for another heatwave this week...
BRATISLAVA: Oil shipments from Russia through a critical pipeline to several European countries should resume soon after a problem over payments for the transit...
PINGTUNG: Taiwan’s foreign minister said Tuesday that China is using military drills to rehearse an invasion of the self-governing island democracy, while Taiwan's military...
KYIV: In a growing challenge to Russia's grip on occupied areas of southeastern Ukraine, guerrilla forces loyal to Kyiv are killing pro-Moscow officials, blowing...
MOSCOW: A Russian rocket on Tuesday successfully launched an Iranian satellite into orbit.
The Soyuz rocket lifted off as scheduled at 8:52 a.m. Moscow time...