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Hamas rules out interim truce without Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza

BEIRUT: A senior official of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says any ceasefire deal with Israel must be permanent and force the regime out...

Iran finalises six candidates for snap presidential election

TEHRAN: Iran's Interior Ministry has released the final list of six approved candidates for the 14th presidential election, which is set to take place...

Small transitional habits that help you get better sleep

NEW DELHI: You draw the curtains, put on some music, cuddle your blanket with the AC on, and start scrolling your phone, looking at...

Israel kills more than 200 in attack on central Gaza: Gov’t Media Office

GAZA: The Israeli military is conducting intense assaults across the Gaza Strip by air, land and sea, killing more than 200 people and spreading...

Developing countries call on US to lift Palestinian UN veto

ISTANBUL: The D-8 group of developing nations called on Saturday for the US to lift its veto on the full membership of Palestine as...

Russia puts former Ukrainian PM on its wanted list

MOSCOW: Russia has put former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on its wanted list, Russian state media reported, citing the Interior Ministry's database. Russian state...

NATO chief rules out troop deployment to Ukraine

NEW DELHI: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that NATO has no plans to deploy forces to Ukraine. At...

Israeli strikes kill at least 18 in central Gaza a day after attack on UN-run school

JERUSALEM: Overnight Israeli airstrikes in central Gaza killed at least 18 people, including children, a day after 33 were killed at a United Nations-run...

World food prices rise for third straight month in May: UN

LONDON: The United Nations world food price index rose for a third consecutive month in May, as higher cereals and dairy product prices outweighed...

Boeing Starliner’s Sunita Williams, fellow astronaut overcome new issues; enter ISS

HOUSTON: NASA's Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams and her colleague Butch Wilmore have successfully docked Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) after...

WHO confirms first human death due to bird flu

NEW DELHI: A 59-year-old man in Mexico City died from a rare strain of bird flu, H5N2, never before found in humans. He had...

World leaders hail PM Modi’s election victory, vow to further strengthen bilateral ties

CANBERRA: Congratulatory messages continued to pour in for Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his electoral victory, with leaders around the world, including from Australia,...

India, S. Korea, US, Japan, EU launch Biopharmaceutical Alliance

SINGAPORE: South Korea, India, the United States, Japan, and the European Union (EU) have come together to launch an alliance to put joint efforts...

Biden signs executive order to curb unlawful border crossings by immigrants

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that would immediately turn down requests for entry into the country by asylum-seekers crossing...

1.5-degree Celsius target limit likely to be surpassed by 2028, predicts UN

GENEVA: The UN weather agency on Wednesday predicted that there's an 80% chance that average global temperatures will surpass the 1.5 Celsius-degree (2.7 degree-Fahrenheit)...

OpenAI, Google DeepMind’s current, former employees warn about AI risks

SAN FRANCISCO: An open letter by a group of 11 current and former employees of OpenAI and one current and another former employee with...

UN rights chief condemns ‘unprecedented bloodshed’ in occupied West Bank

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has renewed its call for an end to violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Volker Turk said in...

G7 leaders ‘fully endorse’ Biden’s Gaza peace plan

ROME: Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies "fully endorse and will stand behind the comprehensive" ceasefire and hostage release deal for...

China’s spacecraft takes off from far side of Moon to bring home first samples

BEIJING: China's Chang'e-6 probe on Tuesday lifted off from the far side of the Moon for its journey back to Earth carrying the first...

Fatah hopes US deal will end Israeli aggression on Gaza, West Bank

RAMALLAH: Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) has expressed its hope that the ceasefire deal recently proposed by the US will end the ongoing Israeli...

Tens of thousands of children in Afghanistan are affected by ongoing flash floods: UNICEF

KABUL: Tens of thousands of children in Afghanistan remain affected by ongoing flash floods, especially in the north and west, the UN children's agency...

Maldives to ban Israelis from entering country

Says it stands in ‘solidarity with Palestine’ MALE: The Maldivian government on Sunday decided to ban Israeli citizens from the archipelago to protest its war...

Iran’s former Prez Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registers for presidential election

DUBAI: Iran's hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered Sunday as a possible candidate for the presidential election, seeking to regain the country's top political...

Helen Mary Roberts becomes first woman brigadier in Pak Army from minority community

ISLAMABAD: Dr. Helen Mary Roberts, serving in the Pakistan Army Medical Corps, has made history by becoming the first woman from Christian and minority...

Trump joins TikTok video platform he once sought to ban

WASHINGTON: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has joined TikTok, the short video social media platform that is owned by China-based tech giant ByteDance and...

China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe lands on far side of Moon for unprecedented sampling mission

BEIJING: China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe has achieved a historic feat by landing on the far side of the Moon and embarking on a groundbreaking...

N Korea sends 600 trash-carrying balloons to S Korea: Seoul’s military

SEOUL: North Korea has sent around 600 balloons carrying trash to South Korea, Seoul’s military said on Sunday, despite a warning that South Korea...

Israel plans new invasion after Biden roadmap towards a full ceasefire

Gaza: Israeli forces pound Rafah in southern Gaza with tanks and artillery just after US President Joe Biden says the regime is offering a...

War with China neither imminent nor unavoidable: US Def Secy

SINGAPORE: United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told a gathering of top security officials Saturday that war with China was neither imminent nor...

Reserve right to respond to new European sanctions: Iran

Tehran: Iran has strongly condemned new EU sanctions against some of the country's officials and entities, stressing that the Islamic Republic reserves the right...

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