WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Monday asked President Joe Biden’s administration to weigh in on whether the justices should hear a case on whether Meta Platforms Inc’s WhatsApp can pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software. The justices are considering NSO’s appeal […]
Moscow: The Russian foreign minister has warned the West that if it provides Ukraine with long-range rockets, Moscow will respond by taking over larger areas of Ukraine. Speaking during an online news conference Monday, Sergey Lavrov said that the longer the range of weapons you supply, the farther away the line from where neo-Nazis could […]
Kathmandu: Nearly 34 tonnes of waste have been collected from four mountains, including the world’s highest peak Mount Everest, in Nepal as part of a cleaning campaign that concluded on World Environment Day, the Nepal Army said on Monday. A team led by the Nepal Army collected 33.8 tonnes of garbage during the Safa Himal […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s main opposition party led by ousted premier Imran Khan on Monday rejected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s offer of holding a “grand dialogue” among all stakeholders to fix the cash-starved country’s economic woes, saying the government was making “hilarious claims” to hide its failures. Prime Minister Sharif on Sunday emphasised the need for initiating […]
Doha: Qatar and Kuwait on Sunday summoned India’s Ambassadors and handed over to them protest notes on what the Gulf countries called categorical “rejection and condemnation” of the controversial remarks of a BJP leader against Prophet Mohammed. Seeking to defuse a diplomatic row, a spokesperson of the Indian Embassy in Qatar said that the “Ambassador […]
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 and the two leaders held delegation level talks and reviewed bilateral relations including trade, investment, economic and security cooperation. Naidu, who reached here on the last leg of his three-nation tour […]
Prague: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday held a meeting with a delegation of Czech Members of European Parliament and they had a good discussion on India’s ties with the EU and the Czech Republic, the Indo-Pacific, food and energy security and digital cooperation. Jaishankar is here on the last leg of his two-nation […]
Dubai: The death toll in a catastrophic tower collapse in southwestern Iran rose to at least 38 on Sunday, state TV reported, as emergency workers pulled another body from the rubble amid fears still more could be trapped in the destruction. It’s unclear how many more people remain unaccounted for in the collapse of the […]
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 conducted in mice. The research, published on Monday in the journal Nature, is the first to show how specific regions in the brain control the body’s cellular immune response while under […]
Kyiv: Reinforced Russian troops backed by airstrikes pummeled a portion of eastern Ukraine on Saturday, blowing up bridges and shelling apartment buildings as they fought to capture two cities that would put a contested province under Moscow’s control, Ukrainian officials said. Russian and Ukrainian forces battled street-by-street in Sievierodonetsk and neighboring Lysychansk, regional governor Serhiy […]