UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for safeguarding the rights of indigenous people to live in peace and dignity, in his message...
NEW DELHI: Amid heightened tensions in the Middle East following Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran, the United States is reinforcing its military...
CARACAS: Venezuela’s National Electoral Council has confirmed that President Nicolas Maduro won last week’s elections with 51.95 per cent of the vote.
With 96.87 per...
WASHINGTON: United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea deal agreed with three plotters of the September 11, 2001 attacks on...
BEIJING: China has begun an observation experiment on land-atmosphere interactions in the Mount Everest Region in Tibet to study the interaction between the land...
NEW DELHI: Airlines are avoiding Iranian and Lebanese airspace and cancelling flights to Israel and Lebanon, as concerns grow over a possible conflict in...
ANKARA: Turkey has blocked access to Instagram, the national communications authority said, after a top government official slammed the social media platform for “censoring”...
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin met Russian citizens, who were detained in foreign countries and returned to their homeland after a prisoners’ exchange deal, at...
UNITED NATIONS: Calling the twin strikes by Israel killing senior leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah during a 24-hour period a “dangerous escalation”, UN Secretary-General...
DHAKA: Bangladesh on Thursday banned the Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir under anti-terrorism law following nationwide unrest, citing the threat posed...
WASHINGTON: Former US President Donald Trump has triggered a controversy by raising questions on the racial identity of his Democratic rival Kamala Harris during...
TEHRAN: Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political office of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, has been assassinated in Tehran, according to a statement from...
GAZA: The Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has pledged to take revenge after its political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the Iranian...
GENEVA: The UN human rights office issued a report Wednesday saying Palestinian detainees taken by Israeli authorities since the Oct. 7 attacks have faced...
WASHINGTON: The Trump campaign has launched a new ad in battleground states alleging that dangerously liberal Kamala Harris failed to stop the invasion of...
TEHRAN: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned against conspiracies by “enemies and ill-wishers” to sow discord between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
He made the remarks...
WASHINGTON: Former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called his likely Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, a “worse candidate” than President...
CHICAGO: McDonald’s has reported its first drop in global sales in over three years as inflation-weary consumers seek out cheaper options and cut back...
Vows to work towards free and peaceful Indo-Pacific
TOKYO: India and other Quad member nations reaffirmed their steadfast commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific...
BEIRUT: Flights at Beirut airport have been cancelled or delayed with Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines (MEA) saying disruptions to its schedule were related to...
BEIJING: President Mohamed Muizzu has thanked India and China for helping strengthen the Maldives’ fragile economy, highlighting the importance of the two countries in...
TOKYO: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday held "wide-ranging" talks with his American counterpart Antony Blinken against the backdrop of an unease in...
WASHINGTON: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said incumbent US President Joe Biden was forced to exit the presidential race, describing it a "coup"...
WASHINGTON: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended his country's war in Gaza, telling the US Congress that "our enemies are your enemies" and...