Kathmandu: Embattled Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has decided not to resign from the post despite an agreement reached between the country’s largest parties — Nepali Congress and CPN-UML — to form a new coalition government. In a meeting of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) office-bearers held in Baluwatar on Tuesday, […]
TEHRAN: Iran’s interim Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani has warned the Israeli regime of “detrimental consequences” if it attacks Lebanon, saying the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah is fully prepared to fight off Israel. Bagheri Kani issued the warning in a phone conversation with Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan on Monday amid Israel’s threats […]
BEIJING: China has deployed its second aircraft carrier ‘Shandong’ which was spotted patrolling waters off the Philippine coast as Manila stepped up efforts to assert its claims over a shoal in the disputed South China Sea firmly opposing Beijing’s counterclaims. Shandong, an aircraft carrier with a displacement of about 70,000 tonnes, was seen patrolling the […]
BENGALURU: The U.S.-based Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) on Monday announced India as a partner country in its human spaceflight programme, which will see six citizen astronauts from across the world launched into space. The programme, being executed in collaboration with Blue Origin, is meant for people from countries who have sent “few or […]
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s bid for criminal immunity from prosecution for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss is set to be decided on Monday by the US Supreme Court. But however it rules, the court has already helped the former President in his effort to avoid trial before the November 5 election. The ruling from […]
TEHRAN: Iran has warned Israel against “full-scale military aggression” in Lebanon and said it would lead to an “obliterating war”, the Islamic republic’s United Nations mission said. “All options, [including] the full involvement of all Resistance Fronts, are on the table,” the mission wrote in a post on X late on Friday, referring to Iran-aligned […]
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that there is no reason not to re-establish relations with Syria, according to media reports. “Just as we were together in the past in developing relations with Syria, we will act together in the same way,” Erdogan told reporters after Friday prayers in Istanbul. The Turkish leader […]
WASHINGTON: Projected to last only days, the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft with two astronauts onboard faces uncertainty with no exact return to Earth announced. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program manager, Steve Stich has said that the US space agency is considering extending the duration of Starliner’s mission from 45 days to 90 […]
ATLANTA: Joe Biden, seeking a second term in the White House, stumbled in his first televised presidential debate with his predecessor Donald Trump, setting off alarm bells among top Democrats about whether the incumbent president can stay atop in the gruelling months ahead of the elections. During their roughly 90-minute debate defined by personal attacks […]
ATLANTA: Former US president Donald Trump turned in a better performance than President Joe Biden during the first of presidential debates, a shift from 2020 when debate watchers saw the 81-year-old Democrat as outperforming his Republican rival. During Thursday’s feisty debate that lasted roughly 90 minutes, President Biden and 78-year-old Trump sparred over the economy, […]