International

Kathmandu: The death toll from rain-triggered floodings and landslides across Nepal climbed to 112 Sunday, police said. Large swathes of eastern and central Nepal have been inundated since Friday, with flash floods reported in parts of the country. According to the Armed Police Force sources,...

Islamabad: At least seven ethnic Punjabi labourers were killed Sunday by suspected militants in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province in the latest incident of targeted killing in the volatile region. The workers were employed for the construction of a house in the Khuda-i-Abadan area of Panjgur...

Tehran: Iran's UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani wrote a letter to the heads of the United Nations and the Security Council Saturday calling for an emergency council meeting over the attack that killed Nasrallah. “Using US-supplied thousand-pound bunker busters,” he wrote, Israel killed Nasrallah and...

United Nations: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar delivered a stern warning Saturday to Pakistan that cross-border terrorism will face retaliation, saying that Islamabad is facing ‘karma’ for the terrorist attacks it launched on others. “Let me make India's position perfectly clear: Pakistan's cross-border terrorism...

Rehoboth Beach (US):  The Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah was a ‘measure of justice’ for victims of a four-decade ‘reign of terror’, US President Joe Biden said Saturday. The comments came after Lebanon's Hezbollah group confirmed earlier Saturday that Nasrallah, one of the...

Cape Canaveral (US): SpaceX launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at the International Space Station on Saturday, sending up a downsized crew to bring them home but not until next year. The capsule rocketed into orbit to fetch the test pilots whose...

Peshawar: At least 50 people have been killed and 120 others injured in clashes between two warring tribes over a piece of land during the last eight days in Pakistan's restive northwestern Kurram district, bordering Afghanistan, police said Saturday. According to police, the clashes started...

Perry: Hurricane Helene caused at least 52 deaths and billions of dollars of destruction across a wide swath of the southeastern US as it raced through, and more than 3 million customers went into the weekend without any power and for some a continued threat...

Beirut: Lebanon's Hezbollah group confirmed Saturday that its leader and one of its founders, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut the previous day. A statement said Nasrallah “has joined his fellow martyrs.” Hezbollah vowed to “continue the holy war against the...

Beirut: Iran announced Saturday that a prominent general in its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard sanctioned by the US died in an airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. Abbas Nilforushan, 58, was killed Friday in Lebanon, Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported. The US...