International

London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has paid tribute to Donald Trump for his role in securing a “landmark” Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza in his first official phone conversation with the US President. A readout from 10 Downing Street in London Sunday night stated that...

Goma: Residents in eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, woke up Monday morning afraid and uncertain about who was in control of the area after Rwanda-backed rebels claimed to have captured the city, as their fight with Congolese security forces escalated in recent days in one...

Lahore: Police in Pakistan's Punjab province have arrested a senior journalist under terrorism charges for terming the "murder of Punjabi officers legal". Razish Liaqatpuri, a former editor in charge of the daily Khabrian and writer of several books, was arrested on Saturday. Liaqatpuri belongs to...

Beijing: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri Monday called on Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and discussed issues of bilateral interest. Misri is here on a two-day visit for talks with Chinese officials to improve India-China relations. Besides being the Foreign Minister, Wang is a member of...

 Dubai: Skyscraper-studded Dubai has been on a hot streak for the last five years — and some residents are starting to feel burned. The city-state has seen record-breaking real estate transactions and as more and more people come to live there, its state-owned airline Emirates...

Chicago: Top Trump administration officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan and the acting deputy attorney general, visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of ramped-up immigration enforcement in the nation's third-largest city as federal agencies touted arrests around the country. Few details of the...

Lahore: A tanker filled with liquified petroleum gas exploded in an industrial area in Pakistan's Punjab province, killing at least six persons, including a minor girl, and injuring 31, authorities said Monday. The incident took place at the Industrial Estate in Multan's Hamid Pur Kanora...

Goma: Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a “mass panic” among its 2 million people and Congo's government said the rebel advance was a “declaration of war." The M23 rebels announced the city's capture...

Cape Town: You may not know it, but right now there's a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief partygoers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the...

Deir Al-Balah: Israel has begun allowing Palestinians to return to the heavily destroyed north of the Gaza Strip for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas, in accordance with a fragile ceasefire. Thousands of Palestinians headed north on Monday...