International

Khan Younis: Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza Friday, officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said, in the latest step to fulfil the terms of the fragile US-brokered ceasefire agreement. The bodies were returned after militants late Thursday handed over the...

Beijing: Three Chinese astronauts, who aborted their departure home after their spacecraft was hit by debris, returned to earth safely Friday. The return capsule of the Shenzhou-21 spaceship, carrying the astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie, touched down at the Dongfeng landing site...

Pyongyang: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has denounced a joint statement issued recently by G7 foreign ministers in Canada about the DPRK's "complete denuclearisation," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Friday. "The present position of the DPRK does not change according...

Washington: The US administration has reached frameworks of bilateral trade agreements with Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador and Ecuador, the White House said Thursday. Under the agreements, the United States will remove reciprocal tariffs on certain items that cannot be grown, mined or naturally produced in...

United Nations: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres here and said he valued the UN chief's assessment of the current global order and its implications for multilateralism and also thanked him for consistent support for India's growth. “Good to meet...

New York/Washington: An American lawmaker will be introducing a bill to “completely eliminate” the H-1B visa programme and take away the pathway to citizenship that it offers, “forcing” individuals to "return home” when their visa expires. “My dear fellow Americans, I'm introducing a bill to...

Damascus: Islamic State cells have escalated attacks in eastern Syria's Deir al-Zour province, targeting two oil tankers in separate incidents Thursday amid expanded counterterrorism operations by Syrian authorities across the country. The Britain-based war monitor said suspected Islamic State gunmen opened fire on a tank truck...

New York: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the Red Fort car explosion as clearly a terrorist attack while commending India for its measured and professional approach to investigating the deadly incident. A high-intensity blast outside the Red Fort in Delhi Monday claimed at least...

Ankara: Turkiye has temporarily grounded its C-130 military cargo planes as a precaution, the Defence Ministry announced Thursday, following a crash in Georgia that claimed the lives of all 20 military personnel on board. The cargo plane was flying from Ganja, Azerbaijan, to Turkiye when...

Islamabad: Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi Thursday said that the suicide bomber involved in the deadly Islamabad bombing was an Afghan national. At least 12 people were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near the entrance of a court in the G-11...