International

New Delhi: A British Airways flight operating from London to Chicago declared an emergency while flying over Ireland, prompting the aircraft to squawk the 7700 emergency code and descend to around 9,000 feet, according to flight-tracking data Monday. According to flight-tracking website Flightradar24, flight BA295...

Kathmandu: The Nepali government has decided to call off the search and rescue operations launched following the deadly floods that struck the country August 26, as hopes of finding survivors have faded, the Prime Minister’s Secretariat said Monday. Forty days after floods in the Bhotekoshi...

Kyiv: Ukraine said that its long-range strikes have neutralised more than half of Russia's oil refining capacity, hampering Moscow's ability to supply its forces during its 4 12-year-old invasion. The Defence Ministry said Sunday that recent strikes on refineries in cities including Moscow, Yaroslavl, Ust-Luga,...

New Delhi: India and Switzerland Monday signed a migration and mobility partnership pact, decided to expand Swiss market access for Indian exports and agreed to further deepen cooperation in nuclear energy and defence domains following talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Swiss President Guy...

Stockholm: The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells. Karl Deisseroth, 54, Peter Hegemann, 71, and Georg Nagel, 73, have carried out research into...

Aden (Yemen): The Iran-backed Houthi rebels captured more territory in southwestern Yemen, taking a key town in a blow to the Saudi-backed government forces as they advanced Monday toward a strategic provincial capital in the region. The fall of the town of Turbah came Sunday,...

Kyiv: A 52-year-old employee of a pharmaceutical warehouse belonging to Indian owners was killed in a Russian strike in Ukraine's Sumy, according to local media. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Sunday expressed his condolences to the family of the man killed in the attack. This morning,...

Washington: US President Donald Trump appeared to mistakenly refer to Brazil as India while commenting on the South American country's presidential election, claiming that 125 million people had voted in the “first round of India's presidential election”. Trump made the remarks in a post on...

Dhaka: Bangladesh Sunday said it expected India to expedite the extradition of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, saying that besides the legal process, political intent was also necessary for her return. The remarks came a day after Indian High Commissioner Dinesh Trivedi said India could...

Nantucket: A search continued Sunday off the Massachusetts coast for an air ambulance carrying six people that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to Boston as authorities planned to comb the seabed floor, the US Coast Guard said. The Federal Aviation Administration contacted the Coast...