International

Colombo: Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the Marxist JVP's broader front National People's Power (NPP), Sunday consolidated his lead in Sri Lanka's presidential election. Saturday, Sri Lankans voted to elect a new president for the first election since the economic meltdown in 2022. The...

Dubai: Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early Sunday, ordering the bureau to shut down amid a widening campaign by Israel targeting the Qatar-funded broadcaster as it covers the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza...

Claymont: President Joe Biden told Indo-Pacific allies Saturday that he believes China's increasing military assertiveness is an effort to test the region at a turbulent moment for Beijing. Biden's comments were caught by a hot mic after he and fellow leaders of the Quad delivered...

Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday arrived in the US for a three-day visit to attend a Quad summit and address a key conclave at the United Nations. Modi will also hold separate bilateral meetings with US President Joe Biden and other world leaders on...

Dhaka: Bangladesh's interim government Saturday said it would export 3,000 tonnes of hilsa fish to India, coinciding with the upcoming Durga Puja, revising its earlier decision. Durga puja will be celebrated from October 9 to 13. The development comes days after the interim government, led...

Deir al-Balah (Gaza Strip): Israeli fire killed 22 people in a strike on a school in the north of the enclave, the Gaza Health Ministry said on Saturday. The strike on the school in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City injured another 30, the statement...

Thiruvananthapuram: Rinson Jose, a Kerala-born entrepreneur and Norwegian citizen, has been allegedly linked to the recent pager blasts in Lebanon that left several dead and many injured, a source said Saturday. The Wayanad Special Branch police in Kerala have begun inquiries into Jose -- a...

New Delhi: Ahead of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's visit to India, New Delhi and Berlin have decided to shore up cooperation in the areas of renewable energy, urban development, agroecology and mobility. Ways to expand engagement in these key areas figured prominently at the development...

Washington DC: US President Joe Biden will host Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian PM Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan at Archmere Academy, where he attended High school, at the sixth - fourth in-person - Quad Leaders Summit in his hometown of...

Beirut: Lebanon's health minister said Saturday that the death toll from an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb the day before has risen to 31, including seven women and three children. Firass Abiad told reporters that 68 people were also wounded of whom 15 remain...