International

Bangkok: A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on more corruption charges Monday. It added six years to her earlier 11-year prison sentence, a legal official said.  The trial of Suu Kyi was held behind closed doors, with...

Dubai: An Iranian government official denied Monday that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie, in remarks that were the country's first public comments on the attack. The comments by Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman of Iran's Foreign Ministry, come over two days...

Sanaa: Yemeni rebels have said 91 people have been killed by recent flash floods, triggered by heavy rain, in areas under their control in the north of the war-devastated country. At least 140 buildings collapsed and 5,699 others were damaged due to flooding, Talaat al-Sharjabi,...

London: Foreign secretary Liz Truss holds a commanding 22-point lead over British-Indian ex-minister Rishi Sunak in the race to become the next Tory leader and UK prime minister, according to an exclusive poll of party members for The Observer. With less than three weeks to...

New York: Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and was able to talk, a day after the Mumbai-born author was stabbed, in what US authorities said was a "targeted, unprovoked, preplanned" attack. Rushdie, who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing "The...

Colombo: The Sri Lankan government said Saturday that it has allowed a high-tech Chinese research ship to dock at the southern port of Hambantota from August 16 till 22 for "replenishment purposes," days after Colombo asked Beijing to defer the portcall amidst India's concern over...

Washington: Republicans in Congress who are relying on Donald Trump to excite voters in the fall elections are not only defending the former president against the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home but politically capitalising on it with grave and potentially dangerous rhetoric against the...

Cairo: Libyan authorities said Saturday they found at least 15 migrants dead in the desert on the borders with Sudan, the latest tragedy involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe via perilous journeys through the conflict-wrecked nation. The Department for Combating Irregular Migration in...

Peshawar: At least three people were killed and five others injured in a landmine blast in the Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Saturday, police said. The incident happened in the Mir Ali tehsil area of North Waziristan when those killed were riding on the same...

Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed to Parliament to prolong the current martial law and general mobilisation in the war-torn country for another 90 days. Two separate drafts on extending the martial law and general mobilisation have been submitted to Parliament for consideration, Xinhua...