UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that distributing humanitarian aid “is almost impossible” in...
OTTAWA: Canada has imposed its first-ever sanctions on what the foreign ministry called "extremist" Israeli settlers in the West Bank, and said Ottawa was...
NEW DELHI: Despite geopolitical, metabolic, and environmental threats, a new study on Friday showed that global life expectancy is expected to increase by 4.9...
WASHINGTON: The US would be better served by maintaining its open trade system rather than imposing new punitive duties on Chinese goods, the International...
BRATISLAVA: Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is stable but his condition remains “very serious”, his deputy has said, after an assassination attempt that shocked...
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has imposed heavy tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, batteries, steel, solar cells, and aluminium, saying it would ensure that...
NEW DELHI: Annu Mishra kept her modest food stall shut as temperatures in Odisha's Bhubaneswar remained above 40 degrees Celsius for 17 consecutive days...
WASHINGTON: NASA has appointed David Salvagnini as the agency’s first chief artificial intelligence (AI) officer, in an extension of his current role as the...
DOHA: Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani says indirect negotiations between the Palestinian resistance group Hamas and Israel over a ceasefire...
GAZA: The United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) has called for an end to the “indiscriminate killing” campaign against Palestinians, especially children, in the Gaza...
NEW DELHI: Students waved the Palestinian flag, chanted ‘free Palestine’, and walked out of the commencement ceremony at US’ Duke University, where comedian Jerry...
WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Antony Blinken has delivered some of the Biden administration’s strongest public criticism yet of Israel’s conduct of the war in...
TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has hailed the success in the expansion of cooperation between Tehran and Riyadh following their normalisation of bilateral...
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Ibu volcano erupted on Monday morning, spewing thick columns of grey ash several kilometres into the sky, the country’s volcanology agency said.
The...
KUWAIT CITY: The United Nations’ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has renewed his call for “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces...
CAIRO: Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah said in a televised speech on Friday that he has dissolved parliament.
The Emir also suspended some of...
WASHINGTON: The most powerful solar storm in more than 20 years has struck Earth’s atmosphere, triggering warnings over the potential disruption to power grids...
TEHRAN: Iran could be pushed into building a nuclear weapon if Israel threatens its existence, an adviser to the country’s supreme leader has warned.
“We...
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the “arrogant” West of risking a global conflict, warning the nuclear power’s “strategic forces” are combat-ready, as he...
NEW DELHI: Amid tension between India and the Maldives over the operation of Indian aviation platforms in the archipelago, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar,...