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VP Naidu holds delegation-level talks with Qatar PM; reviews bilateral ties

Doha: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday met Qatar's Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani here...

Jaishankar meets Czech Members of European Parliament; discusses India’s ties with EU and Indo-Pacific

Prague: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday held a meeting with a delegation of Czech Members of European Parliament and they had a...

Death toll in Iran building collapse rises to at least 38

Dubai: The death toll in a catastrophic tower collapse in southwestern Iran rose to at least 38 on Sunday, state TV reported, as emergency...

Acute stress may hamper body’s fight against Covid, influenza: Study

Washington: Acute stress may impair the body’s ability to fight off infections, especially COVID-19, and increase the chance of dying, according to a study...

Russia puts more strength behind ‘creeping’ Ukraine advance

Kyiv: Reinforced Russian troops backed by airstrikes pummeled a portion of eastern Ukraine on Saturday, blowing up bridges and shelling apartment buildings as they...

Putin blames West for food, energy crises

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday blamed the West for emerging global food and energy crises and repeated his government's offers of safe...

Pak’s FIA seeks arrests of PM Shehbaz & son in money-laundering case; court extends bail

Lahore: Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency, which is probing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son and Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz in a multi-billion...

India rejects criticism

NEW DELHI: India Friday rejected its criticism in a US State Department report on religious freedom, saying it is unfortunate that “vote bank politics...

Chinese banks agree to refinance cash-strapped Pakistan with USD 2.3 billion funding: Report

ISLAMABAD: Chinese banks have agreed to refinance Pakistan with USD 2.3 billion worth of funds in a massive relief for the cash-starved country to...

Pakistan government mulls initiating sedition case against Imran Khan, others

Islamabad: The Pakistan government is mulling to launch a sedition case against former prime minister Imran Khan and the chief ministers of Gilgit-Baltistan and...

Ukraine war ‘will have no winner,’ UN says on 100th day of fight

KYIV: The United Nations said Friday there would be no victor from Russia's invasion of Ukraine as the conflict entered its 100th day and...

Over one million displaced in Myanmar amid violence: UN

Bangkok: The United Nations' humanitarian relief agency says the number of people displaced within strife-torn Myanmar has for the first time exceeded one million,...

Imran Khan warns of ‘civil war’ in Pakistan if elections not announced

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan has warned that the country would descend into a civil war if fresh elections were not announced. In...

No more Turkey: country in push to be known as ‘T rkiye’

Ankara: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has sent a letter to the United Nations formally requesting that his country be referred to as T...

UN chief worries Ukraine war overshadowing climate fight

Stockholm: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday warned that the Ukraine war is diverting attention away from climate change, while at the same time...

Biden says US sending medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine

Washington: The Biden administration says it will send Ukraine a small number of high-tech, medium-range rocket systems, a critical weapon that Ukrainian leaders have...

Imran’s supporters carrying automatic weapons, says Pak defence minister

Islamabad: Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has claimed that protesters in the Azadi March were carrying not only guns but also automatic weapons on...

China’s population is about to shrink for the first time since the great famine

BEIJING: The world's biggest nation is about to shrink. China accounts for more than one sixth of the world's population. Yet after four extraordinary decades...

Israel, UAE sign free trade deal, first with an Arab country

JERUSALEM: Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed a free trade agreement on Tuesday, the first of its kind that Israel has concluded with...

Monkeypox won’t turn into pandemic, but many unknowns: WHO

London: The World Health Organisation's top monkeypox expert said she doesn't expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic,...

16 bodies recovered from Tara Air plane crash site in Nepal

Kathmandu: At least 16 bodies were recovered from the wreckage site of the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district on...

Russia takes small cities, aims to widen east Ukraine battle

KRAMATORSK (Ukraine): Russia claimed to have overrun a key rail hub while its troops fought Ukrainian defenders in the streets of another city in...

US ‘remains concerned’ over UN human rights chief’s Xinjiang visit: Blinken

WASHINGTON: The United States expressed concern on Saturday over China's "efforts to restrict and manipulate" the UN's Human Rights chief's visit to the Xinjiang...

During pandemic, India and US played critical role in supporting each other: Ambassador Sandhu

Washington: During the COVID-19 pandemic, India and the US played a critical role in supporting each other, New Delhi's top envoy in Washington Taranjit...

Imran Khan was persuaded to end his ‘Azadi March’ abruptly: report

Islamabad: A former chief justice of the Supreme Court, a retired army general and a leading businessman persuaded ousted Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan...

Protest seeking resignation of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa enters 50th day

COLOMBO: As the ongoing anti-government protest demanding the resignation of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the worst economic crisis entered its 50th day,...

Russia steps up battle for eastern Ukraine

KRAMATORSK: Russia pressed its onslaught on eastern Ukraine Saturday, saying it had captured the strategic town of Lyman and had successfully tested hypersonic missiles...

India sends 15,000 litres of kerosene for fisherfolk to crisis-hit Sri Lanka

COLOMBO: India sent 15,000 litres of kerosene to Sri Lanka on Saturday to help 700 fisherfolk and power ferry services in the Tamil-dominated Jaffna...

UN human rights chief asks China to rethink Uyghur policies

Beijing: The top UN human rights official said Saturday that she raised concerns with Chinese officials about the impact of the broad application of...

Russia squeezes Ukrainian strongholds in east

Kyiv: Russian forces on Friday pounded the last Ukrainian strongholds in a separatist-controlled eastern province of Ukraine, including a city where authorities said 1,500...

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