International

United Nations: President Joe Biden declared in his final address to the UN General Assembly Tuesday that the U.S. must not retreat from the world, as Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon edged toward all-out war and Israel's bloody operation against Hamas in Gaza neared...

Beirut: Lebanon's Health Ministry says the death toll from Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon since early Monday has reached 558, including 50 children and 94 women. Health Minister Firass Abiad told reporters Tuesday that 1,835 people were wounded during the same period and were taken to...

Colombo: National People's Power (NPP) MP Harini Amarasuriya took the oath of office as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the 16th individual to hold the position. Amarasuriya, a renowned academic, rights activist, and university lecturer is recognised for her contributions to education...

Islamabad: Saudi Arabia has warned Pakistan to take serious and urgent notice of beggars flooding the kingdom under Umrah and Hajj visas, calling on Islamabad's Ministry of Religious Affairs to prevent such people from getting visas and entering its territory for begging purposes. The Saudi...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar held a bilateral meeting with Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Advisor Touhid Hossain on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York Tuesday, marking the first high-level engagement between India and Bangladesh's interim government, led by Muhammad...

Islamabad: In a gory reminder of the horrendous Lahore motorway incident of 2020, a teenage girl was gang-raped allegedly by robbers in front of her family near the famous Pakpattan city of Punjab province, local media reported Tuesday. The incident occurred near village Malik Rahmoo...

New York: India said that a UN summit document for the first time containing a detailed paragraph on Security Council reform is a ‘good beginning’ and New Delhi looks forward eventually to the beginning of text-based negotiations in a fixed time frame to reform the...

New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi departed for New Delhi after concluding his three-day ‘successful’ visit to the US, which witnessed a series of bilateral talks with leaders of several countries on the sidelines of the Quad Leaders' Summit and the UN Summit of the...

Marjayoun (Lebanon): Israeli strikes in Lebanon Monday killed more than 490 people, including more than 90 women and children, Lebanese authorities said, in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. The Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of...

Washington: The US Department of Commerce has proposed a rule to prohibit the import or sale of connected vehicles integrating certain software and hardware with a "nexus" to China or Russia, citing national security concerns. The department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a...