COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s newly-appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday held discussions with representatives of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank on...
Johannesburg: South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts.
For about three weeks the...
KYIV: Russian troops are withdrawing from Ukraine's second-largest city after weeks of heavy bombardment, the Ukrainian military said Saturday, as Kyiv and Moscow's forces...
LAHORE: A Pakistani court here on Saturday extended the pre-arrest bail of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son and Punjab Chief Minister Hamza...
Dubai: Rulers in the United Arab Emirates announced Saturday that they unanimously appointed Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the president of this...
United Nations/Geneva: India abstained in the UN Human Rights Council on a resolution on the deteriorating human rights situation in Ukraine stemming from the...
Islamabad: Pakistan's President Arif Alvi has written to Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, asking him to form a judicial commission to probe the alleged...
Dubai: UAE's long-ailing President and ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan passed away on Friday, the Ministry of Presidential Affairs...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday said that the next elections could be "bloody" if all political parties did not agree to...
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin says Western sanctions against Russia are provoking a global economic crisis.
Speaking during a Thursday meeting on economic issues, Putin...
Jerusalem: A veteran journalist working for Al Jazeera was killed on Wednesday during an Israeli operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, prompting...
COLOMBO: A protest began in front of Sri Lanka’s Trincomalee Naval Base on Tuesday after reports emerged that former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and...
Colombo: Sri Lankan authorities on Monday imposed a nationwide curfew and Army troops were deployed in the capital after pro-government groups attacked protesters outside...
SHANGHAI: China’s sea levels reached their highest on record last year, swelled by rising water temperatures and the melting of glaciers and polar icecaps,...
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has cast Moscow’s military action in Ukraine as a forced response to Western policies.
Speaking at a military parade Monday...
LONDON: A new UK India Industry Taskforce, a joint commission to increase cross-industry collaboration and push the UK-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) over the...
Zaporizhzhia: Dozens of Ukrainians were feared dead Sunday after a Russian bomb flattened a school sheltering about 90 people in its basement, while Ukrainian...
COLOMBO: The China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is considering granting $100 million in emergency support to Sri Lanka, the country’s finance ministry said on...
London: The UK government pledged an additional 1.3 billion pounds in military support to Ukraine during this financial year to help the country counter...
Islamabad/Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has held a telephonic conversation with his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the first such high-level contact since...
SEOUL: North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile Saturday, Seoul said, its second missile launch in three days, after the United States warned Pyongyang...
Colombo: The Sri Lankan government on Saturday defended imposing a state of emergency, saying it was required to tackle the unprecedented economic crisis plaguing...
United Nations: Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the world to unite and end the war in Ukraine, calling it senseless, ruthless and limitless in its...
Vatican City: Pope Francis says Russia's war in Ukraine is particularly barbarous given that it involves Christians killing fellow Christians in a scandal that...