International

As tension in West Asia flares up, with Iran launching missiles at Israel, global and Indian traders brace for long-term trade disruptions. The key Red Sea shipping route might stay contested, keeping freight rates sky-high. After finishing its operations in Gaza, Israel shifted focus to...

New Delhi: India Thursday trashed a report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and described it as a ‘biased’ organisation with a ‘political agenda’. In a strong reaction, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the USCIRF should utilise its time more...

Dhaka: Bangladesh's interim government has recalled five envoys, including its high commissioner in New Delhi, as it carried out a second phase of reshuffle in the diplomatic service alongside the domestic administration, an official said Thursday. The interim government led by Professor Muhammad Yunus as...

Beirut: An Israeli airstrike on an apartment in central Beirut killed seven Hezbollah-affiliated civilian first responders. Israel has been pounding areas of the country where the militant group has a strong presence since late September but has rarely struck in the heart of the capital....

Jerusalem: The Israeli military said Thursday that it killed a senior Hamas leader in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip around three months ago. It said that a strike on an underground compound in northern Gaza killed Rawhi Mushtaha and two other Hamas commanders, Sameh...

Beirut: Israel launched an airstrike early Thursday morning targeting the Health Authority Center affiliated with Hezbollah in the al-Bachoura area, central Beirut, causing a massive fire, local media reported. TV footage showed heavy black smoke rising from the building. The airstrike also led to significant...

Damascus: Two Lebanese nationals, including Hassan Jafar Qasir, the son-in-law of late Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residence in the Mazzeh Western Villas neighborhood of Damascus, a war monitor reported. The Israeli strike, which Wednesday hit...

Islamabad: Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik Wednesday called on Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who praised his lectures and said they are "insightful and impactful". Naik, wanted in India for alleged money laundering and inciting extremism through hate speeches, left the country in 2016. He...

Kyiv: The fall of a front-line town nestled atop a tactically significant hill is unlikely to change the course of Ukraine's war against Russia. But the loss underscores Kyiv's worsening position, in part the result of firm Western red lines, military officials and analysts said....

Joint Base Andrews: President Joe Biden says he will not support an Israeli attack on sites related to Tehran's nuclear programme. “The answer is no,” Biden said Wednesday, when asked if he would support such retaliation after Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel Tuesday....