International

Tel Aviv: Israel and Hamas agreed to pause fighting in Gaza to free the remaining hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, accepting elements of a plan put forward by the Trump administration that Palestinians greeted warily Thursday as a possible breakthrough toward ending the devastating...

New Delhi: Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi landed in the national capital Thursday, in the first high-level trip from Kabul after the Taliban seized power following the collapse of the Ashraf Ghani government over four years back. Muttaqi will hold extensive talks with External...

Dhaka: Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal Wednesday issued arrest warrants against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and several others on charges of crimes against humanity in alleged cases of enforced disappearances during her Awami League regime. A three-member International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) bench, led by Justice...

Islamabad: Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has warned that "chances of war with India are real" and claimed that his country would achieve even bigger success in the case of any armed conflict in future. Asif made the remarks in an interview with Samaa TV...

Stockholm: Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work in the development of metal–organic frameworks. Hans Ellegren, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced the chemistry prize in Stockholm Wednesday. It was the third...

New York/Washington: The US Senate has confirmed Sergio Gor as the next Ambassador of the United States to India. Gor, 38, was among 107 nominees confirmed by the Senate in a single en bloc vote Tuesday, with 51 senators voting in favour and 47 against....

Mumbai: The opportunities waiting to be seized under the India-UK free trade agreement are "unparalleled", British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday as he kick-started his first visit to India after assuming the charge of the top office. Starmer said the trade deal is a...

Kyiv/New Delhi: Ukraine has claimed to have captured a 22-year-old Indian national allegedly fighting for the Russian army, while the Indian government said it is verifying the report. According to Ukrainian media outlet The Kyiv Independent, the man, identified as Majoti Sahil Mohamed Hussein from...

New York/Washington: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Tuesday lauded US President Donald Trump for bringing ‘peace’ between India and Pakistan, as he called the American leader a 'transformative president'. “You are a transformative president… the transformation in the economy, unprecedented commitments of NATO partners to...

Washington: The US government shutdown has entered its seventh day, with flight delays reported across multiple airports nationwide. Flights were delayed at airports in New York, Denver and Los Angeles due to shortages of air traffic controllers. Staffing shortages are also being reported in Washington,...