International

Moscow: Russian forces have driven the Ukrainian army out of the biggest town in Russia's Kursk border region, officials claimed Thursday, as US officials sought the Kremlin's response to a proposed 30-day ceasefire in the three-year war that Ukraine has endorsed. The Russian Defence Ministry's...

Karachi: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif  Thursday visited the restive Balochistan province Thursday to review the law and order situation and to express solidarity with the people there following the Jaffar Express hijacking incident in which 21 civilians and four soldiers were killed. Sharif's visit...

Dubai: An Emirati diplomat earlier identified by Tehran as carrying a letter from US President Donald Trump seeking to jump-start talks over Iran's rapidly advancing nuclear programme met Wednesday with Iran's foreign minister in the Iranian capital. It is unclear how Iran will react to...

Taipei: Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te said Thursday tougher measures are needed to counter stepped-up Chinese infiltration, spying and other efforts to weaken the island's defences. Lai cited a range of recent incidents involving China that fall into a “gray area” of psychological warfare short...

Washington: Mia Francis, a 22-year-old barista from Boston, filed her taxes on her own this year for the first time, using a free government tax filing program that made it easy because it did most of the work for her. Francis said it took 45...

New York: The US authorities have identified a 24-year-old man as a person of interest in the case of a 20-year-old Indian student who has mysteriously gone missing during a spring break visit to the Dominican Republic. Sudiksha Konanki, a citizen of India and a...

Islamabad: Even as questions mounted over the handling of the Jaffar Express hijacking in Balochistan, the Pakistan government remained notably silent in the National Assembly, despite scathing criticism from the Opposition. Wednesday, the coalition government avoided any mention of the hijacking incident, which had shaken...

Paris: Defence Ministers from Europe's top five military powers, France, Germany, Britain, Italy and Poland, met in Paris and voiced support for the Ukrainian army. In a joint declaration published after the meeting, the ministers agreed to strengthen European support for peace in Ukraine, including...

New Delhi: SpaceX has postponed the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket, which was scheduled to carry a crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and return the "stranded" NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. The launch, originally planned for today...

A massive four-lane highway is being constructed to facilitate the arrival of delegates to the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, which will be attended by representatives from around the world this November. However, felling of thousands of trees to make way for the 13-km...