International

Bangkok: World shares started the week mixed, with European markets opening lower, after US stocks closed at an all-time high following their recovery from the shocks of the Trump administration's trade policies. Canada's decision to cancel a plan to tax US technology firms that had...

Lahore: Monsoon rains in the Punjab province of Pakistan have claimed 18 lives, including 11 children, while 57 persons have also been injured in rain-related incidents in the last 24 hours, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) said Monday. The PDMA, in a factsheet released...

New Delhi: The Indian team, headed by Special Secretary in the Department of Commerce Rajesh Agrawal, will remain in Washington until Monday for negotiations on an interim trade agreement with the US, an official said. The stay of the Indian officials has been extended for...

Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Monday announced that Ukraine is aligning with the European Union's sanctions package targeting the Iranian administration, describing them as "the most brutal regimes in the world." "Our institutions are working on the synchronisation of European and Ukrainian sanctions. We are...

Tehran: The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Monday rejected the “offensive and insolent remarks” by US President Donald Trump against senior Iranian Officials. “Such insolent statements and undiplomatic behaviour not only constitute a flagrant violation of universally shared moral principles and the provisions of the...

Islamabad: Pakistan and China are working on a proposal to establish a new regional organisation that could potentially replace the now-defunct South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), according to a media report Monday. Quoting diplomatic sources familiar with the development, the Express Tribune newspaper...

Tehran: Iran's one of the most senior Shia clerics, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, has declared US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as ‘enemies of God’ in a newly issued 'fatwa' (religious decree) against them. "Any person or regime that threatens the Leader...

Islamabad: At least three people were injured when a 5.5 magnitude earthquake shook Pakistan's Balochistan province Sunday, according to media reports. The earthquake's epicentre was near the Musa Khel district at a depth of 28 kilometres, according to the country's Earthquake Monitoring Centre, the Express...

Tel Aviv: US President Donald Trump Sunday pleaded for progress in ceasefire talks in the war in Gaza, calling for a deal that would halt the fighting in the 20-month-long conflict as the sides appeared to be inching closer to an agreement. An Israeli official...

Dubai: Iran's judiciary says at least 71 people were killed in Israel's attack Monday on Tehran's Evin prison, a notorious facility where many political activists have been held. Judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir posted on the office's official Mizan news agency website Sunday that those killed...