International

New Delhi: India Monday extended the closure of its airspace for flights operated by Pakistan airlines by another month till July 24. The Indian airspace has been closed for planes operated, owned or leased by Pakistan airlines and operators, including military flights, since April 30....

Dubai: Oman has rolled out plans to levy personal income tax as part of a broader push to move the sultanate's economy away from reliance on hydrocarbons, the official Oman News Agency said Sunday. The move, issued by royal decree, is a first among the...

Tel Aviv: The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) Monday announced that its Air Force fighter jets, guided by precise intelligence from the IDF Intelligence Directorate, struck key command centres and assets belonging to Iran's internal security forces and the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in...

Dubai: Israel hit Iranian government targets in Tehran Monday in a series of strikes that followed a salvo of missiles and drones fired by Iran at Israel in the wake of the Trump administration's massive strikes on Iranian nuclear sites the day before. The Israeli...

The Hague: NATO leaders are expected to agree this week that member countries should spend 5 per cent of their gross domestic product on defence, except that the new and much vaunted investment pledge will not apply to all of them. Spain has reached a...

Kyiv: Russian drones and missiles killed at least 10 civilians in Ukraine in nighttime attacks, local officials said Monday, with seven deaths reported in the capital, Kyiv, where emergency crews raced to find people believed trapped under the rubble of a partially collapsed apartment building....

Moscow: Russia is ready to help Iran in various ways, depending on what Tehran requests, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday. “Everything depends on what Iran needs,” Peskov said in response to a question at a briefing. “We have offered our mediation efforts. This is...

Dubai: A suspected Israeli airstrike hit the gate of Iran's notorious Evin prison in Tehran, Iranian state television reported Monday. Iranian media speculated the strike may be from a drone. The report shared what appeared to be black-and-white-surveillance footage of the strike. The prison is...

Colombo: Sri Lanka Monday called for diplomacy to diffuse the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict following the US involvement. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release said, “Sri Lanka is gravely concerned about the latest developments in the Middle East. We continue to call upon...

Bangkok: Global markets appeared to take the US strike against nuclear targets in Iran in stride as investors watched to see how Iran will react. The price of oil initially jumped more than 2% but fell back slightly Monday. US stock futures and most Asian...