International

New Delhi: India Wednesday condemned the latest wave of attacks carried out by Houthi militants on oil installations in Saudi Arabia, and said the strikes undermined regional security. The Iran-backed Houthi militant group targeted Saudi oil facilities and some other civilian infrastructure Tuesday, triggering widespread...

Washington: US military said it destroyed five Iranian oil tankers Tuesday in response to the latest attacks on its warships and Tehran hit back at American targets in Jordan, the latest burst of back-and-forth strikes that have lurched the sides back toward open hostilities in...

Islamabad: Pakistan said there should be "no ambiguity" that an attack on any one of the three members of the newly formed Makkah Defence Alliance would be treated as an attack on all, as it warned that the pact could become operative following Houthi strikes...

Toronto: United States is banning dairy products, most alcoholic beverages and motorcycles from Canada, the White House said Tuesday, as the trade war between the two nations escalates. The ban will take effect in three weeks and comes after Canada imposed retaliatory tariffs on USD...

Washington: The Trump administration Tuesday imposed sanctions on additional elements of Iran's aviation industry, targeting more than two dozen commercial and private airlines as well as foreign cargo service providers in its new push to isolate Tehran from its remaining trading partners. The latest actions...

London: US President Donald Trump's latest map-making exercise has rattled the North Atlantic. During a flurry of social media posts over the long holiday weekend, Trump posted a map showing the US sprawling across all of North America and extending to Greenland and Iceland. The...

Moscow: Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that there is no slowdown in India’s Russian energy imports which continue to set records. “I don’t want to give you any figures for understandable reasons, but every month we have a new record,” Peskov said in a...

London: The UK government said Tuesday that France and Canada will join it in banning goods from Israeli West Bank settlements. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said that the countries are part of an international coalition. He said that Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Poland, Portugal and Sweden...

Kochi: Indian fisheries scientist Dr P. Krishnan has been elected chair of a global network of regional fisheries bodies at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), giving India a prominent role in international fisheries governance for the next two years. Krishnan, Director of the...

London/New Delhi: The Eiffel Tower was closed for a day Monday after its staff went on strike over female employees being "moved away" for a visit by a Hindu religious group, according to the iconic Paris monument's management and staff. The incident that triggered the...