International

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...

New Delhi: NASA-SpaceX is set to launch the Crew-9 -- an astronaut and a cosmonaut -- to the International Space Station (ISS), in a mission that aims to bring back stranded Indian-Origin Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore back to Earth in February next year. According...

Jerusalem: The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Saturday announced that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah had been eliminated following a deadly strike on the headquarters of the Lebanese militant group in the southern suburbs of Beirut late Friday. It also confirmed that, along with Nasrallah, several other...

United Nations: India with its significant economic growth and leadership of the Global South deserves a permanent seat at the UN Security Council, Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has said. He also expressed “deepest” gratitude to India for its “support and friendship” for his country's...

New Delhi: Sweden has officially joined ISRO's Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM), approved last week by the Union Cabinet. The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) will reportedly provide ISRO with the Venusian Neutrals Analyser instrument (VNA) -- a lightweight, low-power but highly capable energetic neutral...

United Nations: In a strong retort, India has slammed Pakistan in the UN General Assembly, saying its “fingerprints" are on terrorist incidents across the world and the country should realise that cross-border terrorism against India will “inevitably invite consequences”. India exercised its Right of Reply...

United Nations: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticised the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for seeking arrest warrants against him and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, alongside several Hamas leaders. "Ladies and gentlemen, the real war criminals are not in Israel," he told...

London: Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) Friday fined Meta 91 million euros (around $101.5 million) for 2019 breach that exposed hundreds of millions of Facebook passwords. The Irish regulator announced its final decision following an inquiry into Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) which was launched...

Beirut: The Israeli military said Friday it struck the central headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut, where a series of massive explosions levelled multiple buildings, sending clouds of orange and black smoke billowing in the skies. The strikes in the suburbs south of Lebanon's capital came...