International

Seoul: South Korea’s national space agency Wednesday announced a plan to establish a cross-sectoral education system aimed at fostering a total of 30,000 aerospace talents by 2045 as part of its long-term strategy to become a global space powerhouse in the face of the New...

Islamabad: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif Wednesday hinted that the country's military could launch an operation against "terrorist hideouts" in Afghanistan as Islamabad wants to take strong action against the outfits which are providing safe haven to hostile elements. "If we have to go after Pakistan's...

Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that a vow by Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin not to attack energy infrastructure was “very much at odds with reality” following an overnight barrage of drone strikes across the country. Zelenskyy said that he would speak with US...

Milan: The Italian Coast Guard has recovered six bodies and was searching for up to 40 migrants missing after a rubber dinghy that departed from Tunisia sank in the central Mediterranean, the UN refugee agency in Italy said Wednesday. Another 10 people, including four women,...

New York: As CBS corporate leaders ponder settling President Donald Trump's USD 20 billion lawsuit against the network's “60 Minutes,” America's storied newsmagazine has produced some fast and hard-hitting stories critical of the new administration in every episode since Trump was inaugurated. The latest was...

Colombo: Deshabandu Tennakoon, the suspended inspector general of police, surrendered to the court Wednesday after evading arrest for over two weeks in a case related to a shooting incident in 2023. Tennakoon, who had been on a run since February 28, turned himself in at...

Why Crimea is coveted by both Russia and Ukraine Kyiv: Russia's seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but it sent Moscow's relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the Cold...

Mehsana: Residents of NASA astronaut Sunita Willaims' ancestral village in Gujarat's Mehsana district burst into celebrations Wednesday morning as a SpaceX capsule carrying her and her colleague Butch Wilmore splashed down off the Florida coast. All eyes were on Willaims's safe return as those in...

New Delhi: "Welcome back home", actors Chiranjeevi and R Madhavan said Wednesday as NASA astronaut Sunita Williams returned to Earth after a nine-month space exploration mission. Williams and her fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore returned to Earth Tuesday, hitching a different ride home to close out...

Washington: The Trump administration has declassified files related to the assassination of John F Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, who was shot dead in Texas in 1963. The release, ordered by President Donald Trump, makes previously redacted documents fully accessible to the...