International

Cairo: Saudi Arabia Saturday confirmed that Yemen's Houthi rebels tried to attack its capital with a ballistic missile, the first targeting of Riyadh since the escalation in fighting with the Tehran-backed rebels that has opened a new front in the Iran war. The statement by...

Moscow: Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections. Moscow's mayor described the wave of drones as the...

New York: NASA has an "incredible" partnership with ISRO and is looking forward to more collaboration, the US agency's Indian-American senior official Amit Kshatriya has said. "We already have incredible collaboration with ISRO," Kshatriya, NASA's Associate Administrator and Chief Engineer, told PTI in an exclusive...

Sanaa: At least 44 people were killed in fighting between Yemeni government forces and the Houthi group over the past 24 hours, military sources from both sides said Saturday. A government military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that battles were raging across...

Dubai: Saudi Arabia warned of a "hostile aerial threat" and issued a string of emergency alerts across the kingdom overnight, including the first alert in its capital since an escalation in fighting with Iran-backed rebels in neighbouring Yemen. Meanwhile, the head of Iran's Supreme National...

New Delhi: A fresh tranche of 11 tonnes of relief material, including medicines, forensic supplies, tents and sleeping bags, was dispatched Saturday aboard a military transport aircraft to Kathmandu, officials said. In a post on X, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar shared photos of the...

Addis Ababa: The United States lifted sanctions against Eritrea's ruling party and the military that the Biden administration imposed, according to the US Department of the Treasury. The sanctions were issued in 2021 over humanitarian and human rights concerns in the northern Ethiopian region of...

Kyiv: Ukraine has received a new 3.3-billion-euro (about 3.78 billion US dollars) tranche from the European Union to finance priority defence needs, Ukrainian Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi said Friday. The funds will be used, in particular, to purchase missiles and drones, Koretskyi said on Telegram....

Seoul: Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Saturday rejected a recent resolution by the UN nuclear watchdog against Pyongyang's nuclear program, vowing to maintain the credibility of the country's nuclear capabilities in the face of what she called nuclear threats...

Washington: US President Donald Trump has announced an agreement with Denmark and Greenland that he says gives Washington permanent control over Greenland’s security, allows an expanded American military presence and restricts access by US adversaries. In a Truth Social post, Trump said the arrangement would...