International

Beijing/Washington: Chinese President Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to hold an unprecedented trilateral meeting next week on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in China's Shenzhen city, the White House has said. China is...

Islamabad: Pakistan announced Saturday that Climate Change Minister Musadik Malik would participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Civilisational Dialogue in India later this month. The key meeting of the SCO nations would be held in New Delhi from November 20-22. India had announced October...

Dhaka/New Delhi: Bangladesh has completed all legal procedures required to secure the return of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India, and the next step rests with New Delhi, Law Minister Md Asaduzzaman said Saturday, according to local media reports. "We have completed everything required...

Beijing: The growing number of cases involving foreign nationals detained by Chinese authorities reveals an increasingly alarming pattern of Beijing using foreign citizens as leverage to pressure other governments, in what amounts to "hostage diplomacy", a report has stated. It noted that the trend suggests...

New Delhi: India and the US have sorted out the bulk of the issues relating to the proposed trade deal and it could be sealed "soon" as negotiations are underway to resolve the last stretch of concerns, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Saturday. His...

New York: Eileen Laubacher, a former US Navy rear admiral who served as a defence attaché at the embassy in New Delhi, has defeated a fiery Republican hardliner in the midterm elections to Congress that have turned into a Democratic tsunami. Democrat Laubacher was declared...

Hong Kong: Well before reports emerged that former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was having an affair with a suspected Chinese spy, the advanced chips made by his company were at the centre of the race between the US and China to dominate artificial intelligence. The...

Quetta: Security posts of the Pakistani forces in Balochistan's Nushki were reportedly targeted with rockets and gunfire, a day after a suicide bombing and armed assault on a military camp in Mastung, local media reported. Reports indicate that military posts near the football stadium and...

New Delhi: All Microsoft products became operational Saturday, the company's service health page showed, after a massive global outage that disrupted Outlook email and other workplace services, with the firm saying it was deeply sorry and blamed the incident on a network capacity upgrade issue....

New Delhi: Air India Saturday advised passengers to check the latest status of their flights and plan their journey to the airport accordingly, amid massive disruption at US airports. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lifted a nationwide ground stop that had halted departures at US...