International

Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Major General Andrii Hnatov as the Chief of the general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces to replace Lieutenant General Anatolii Barhylevych. The decrees to dismiss Barhylevych and appoint Hnatov, published on the presidential website, did not specify...

Moscow: Russia has rejected the possible deployment of NATO peacekeepers in Ukraine, suggesting unarmed observers or a civilian monitoring group sent there to oversee a potential peace deal. Discussions on peacekeeping efforts in Ukraine remain premature and should only take place after a formal peace...

Sanaa: The Houthi-run Health Ministry has said that the overnight US strikes killed at least 53 people, including five women and two children, and wounded more than 100 people in Yemeni state capital Sanaa, media reported. The US has escalated its strikes against Yemen's Iran-backed...

Cape Canaveral: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and her crewmate Butch Wilmore are set to return to Earth later Tuesday evening after spending nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confirmed Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are to...

Beijing: China has delivered a second new submarine, equipped with state-of-the-art weapons and sensors, to Pakistan as part of its efforts to beef up the navy of its all-weather ally to back its growing presence in the Arabian Sea and India's backyard - the Indian...

Los Angeles: Actors Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas are fuelling dating rumours as they have been spotted out together in London again. The actors were seen arriving at the London Heliport via helicopter the evening of Friday, reports ‘People’ magazine. Both Tom Cruise, 62,...

Quetta: A roadside bomb exploded near a bus carrying security forces in restive southwestern Pakistan Sunday, killing at least five officers and wounding 10 others, police said. The attack occurred in Naushki, a district in Balochistan, said Zafar Zamanani, a local police chief. He said...

Tokyo: Japan is assessing the deployment of long-range missiles on the southwestern island of Kyushu aimed at bolstering the security of the country's southwestern Nansei island chain. This move is strategically important for the island chain's proximity to Taiwan, amid growing fears that the self-ruled...

Cairo: Hamas said Saturday it will only release an American-Israeli and the bodies of four other hostages if Israel implements their ceasefire agreement, calling it an “exceptional deal” aimed at getting the truce back on track. Israeli airstrikes meanwhile killed nine people in the Gaza...

Kimbirila-Nord: With its tomato patches and grazing cattle, the Ivory Coast village of Kimbirila-Nord hardly looks like a front line of the global fight against extremism. But after jihadis attacked a nearby community in Mali five years ago and set up a base in a...