International

Kathmandu: Six Indian tourists, including two women, have been stranded in the Shey-Phoksundo National Park area of Nepal since Saturday afternoon due to heavy snowfall, with security personnel mobilised and efforts underway to rescue them, officials said Sunday. The tourists had gone to the Dho...

New York: The theft of billions of dollars from Binance within a matter of minutes, the biggest crypto heist in history, was orchestrated by North Korean hackers, the FBI has said. The bureau said in a statement Saturday that this week's attack was tied to...

Washington/Atlanta: US President Donald Trump said that he would invite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the G20 summit, hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio left open the possibility of his participation in the December gathering in Florida. The development followed questions in Atlanta about...

Washington: US President Donald Trump Saturday named Pickaxe Mountain as an Iranian site that needed to be dealt with, while saying negotiations with Tehran were progressing and leaving open whether diplomacy would produce an agreement. Speaking to reporters in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said there...

Cape Canaveral: An aging NASA telescope is barely clinging to space after a failed rescue effort left it tottering lower and lower. The US Space Force predicts the Swift Observatory will come crashing down on or around Friday. Most of the 1 ½-ton telescope is...

Chernihiv Region(Ukraine): Evacuees from Russian-occupied Oleshky in Ukraine arrived in Belarus Saturday on their way back to Ukraine, part of a major rescue operation carried out under the most significant truce since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine 4½ years ago. The ceasefire in Ukraine's southern...

Kathmandu: Nepal has received a three-year extension to graduate from the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) category, giving it more time to prepare for the transition, according to a foreign ministry official. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Thursday unanimously approved a three-year extension until November...

Dhaka: A Bangladesh opposition leader has warned against any move to facilitate an Indian transit corridor through the country and called for a fair water-sharing agreement with New Delhi ahead of the expiry of the Ganges treaty in December, according to local media reports. National...

Atlanta: External Affairs Minister (EAM), S. Jaishankar met EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Atlanta and discussed the ongoing global conflicts. Taking to X, EAM Jaishankar said, "Discussed the Ukraine...

Atlanta: Poland has secured India's support for its bid to become a permanent G20 member and hopes to join during the US presidency, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said. Responding to a question from IANS at a press conference, Sikorski said the United States had...