International

Cairo: Residents in Saudi Arabia's capital say they have heard new explosions in Riyadh. The residents spoke on condition of anonymity for their safety. One lives in northern Riyadh, near King Khalid International Airport. The source of explosions wasn't immediately clear. The Saudi civil defence...

New Delhi: India and the US are continuing to engage to iron out differences on the proposed trade deal, and negotiations are heading towards a "landing point," External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said, while noting that the core fundamentals of the bilateral strategic partnership...

Los Angeles: The Reality star Khloe Kardashian has shared that she hasn’t been intimate in over 4 years. The 42-year-old reality star has been single for almost 4 years now. She split from Tristan Thompson, the father of her two children, in 2022, and shared...

Washington: US President Donald Trump promised every adult American citizen $5,000 if Republicans keep control of both chambers of Congress, telling a midterm rally in Wasilla, Alaska, that tariff revenue would pay for it. "If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate, I'm...

New Delhi/Dhaka: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's decision to skip the BRICS summit in India was "immature" and damaged Bangladesh's national interest, former PM Sheikh Hasina has said, warning that foreign policy driven by personal reactions or short-term political calculations is inherently counterproductive. Hasina said Bangladesh's...

Washington/New Delhi: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to India next week to further strengthen energy cooperation, the Department of State informed. Rubio will first visit Samarkand in Uzbekistan, and will then travel to Mumbai and Jamnagar in India from October 17-22, it...

Hong Kong: China's exports surged 36.3% in September from a year earlier, its customs agency said Wednesday, as pressure ramped up from its trading partners including the European Union to rebalance trade. The exports data, which was better than what economists had expected, accelerated from...

Washington: Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, faced reporters for the first time Tuesday for a very brief turn at the lectern, taking a handful of questions before abruptly wrapping it up. Zacharia, a conservative commentator who most recently worked for President Donald...

Saint-Denis: Swedish activist Greta Thunberg joined protesters outside a high school in a working-class suburb of Paris Tuesday as French pupils took to the streets for another day of demonstrations over poor learning conditions. Now in its fourth week, the nationwide protest movement over teacher...

Washington: The Trump administration has moved to scrap a rule that lets H-1B and other skilled foreign workers routinely win extensions when their facts have not changed, and has made permanent a separate rule ending automatic renewals of work permits for spouses of H-1B workers...