International

Washington: US President Donald Trump strongly rejected a recent intelligence report which challenged the administration’s claim that US strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. The report by the US Defence Intelligence Agency disclosed by two American media outlets CNN and New York...

New Delhi: The Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), a landmark private spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS), will launch Wednesday from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Axiom Space, in collaboration with NASA and SpaceX, organised the mission, which features a diverse international crew including India’s Shubhanshu...

Dubai: A fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel appeared to hold Tuesday after initially faltering, and US President Donald Trump expressed frustration with both sides, saying they have fought “for so long and so hard” that they do not know what they are doing. Israel...

Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Tuesday committed to support Iran at all forums and discussed the rapidly evolving situation in West Asia with envoys from Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Pakistan foreign office expressed deep concern and alarm at the serious escalation in the security situation...

Tehran: The death toll from Israeli strikes across Iran over the past 12 days has reached 606, with 5,332 others injured, Iran's Health Minister Mohammad-Reza Zafarghandi said Tuesday. Zafarghandi described the past 24 hours as witnessing the "most horrific attacks and aggressions" by Israel since...

Beijing: NSA Ajit Doval Tuesday called on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to hold perpetrators, organisers, and financiers of cross-border terror to account, widely seen as a demand to act against Pakistan-backed terrorism. In his address at a conclave of top security officials of the...

Beersheba: A tentative truce faltered Tuesday when Israel vowed to retaliate after saying Iran launched missiles into its airspace more than two hours after the ceasefire was supposed to take effect. Iran's military denied firing on Israel, state media reported, but explosions boomed and sirens...

Tokyo: Japan's army announced Tuesday that it conducted a missile test for the first time on Japanese territory. The test-firing of the Type-88 surface-to-ship short-range missile was conducted Tuesday at an army firing range in Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido. Japan is accelerating its...

Seoul: North Korea has held a key party meeting to review the implementation of state policies in the first half of the year, state media reported Tuesday, without disclosing details of a speech by its leader, Kim Jong-un, in a rare move. The North convened...

Deir al-Balah: Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza early Tuesday, killing at least 25 people, Palestinian witnesses and hospitals said. The Israeli military did not immediately comment. The Awda hospital in the urban Nuseirat...