International

Los Angeles: The Apprentice, the controversial biographical drama film about young Donald Trump, the former US president and the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, will hit US and Canadian theatres in October, weeks before the presidential election in November, according to media reports. The hot-button film...

Washington: The US has urged China to take immediate action to end its ongoing repression of Muslim Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang. In a statement Friday to mark the second anniversary of the UN High Commissioner for Human...

Colombo: India's National Security Adviser Ajit Doval Friday called on Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and discussed the ongoing bilateral economic collaboration. Doval arrived here Thursday to attend the Colombo Security Conclave to be held Friday. Doval called on President Wickremesinghe at the Presidential Secretariat...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Friday asserted that the era of interrupted dialogues with Pakistan is over, noting that "actions have consequences". In his remarks at a book launch event in the national capital, Jaishankar said: "Era of uninterrupted dialogues with Pakistan is...

Wellington: New Zealand's Maori King, Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII, died Friday at age 69, days after marking the 18th anniversary of his leadership. According to local media reports, Tuheitia died in hospital while recovering from heart surgery, and he passed away peacefully surrounded...

Islamabad: Twelve people were killed when a landslide hit a house in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Friday morning, rescue teams said. According to the statement released by the state-run rescue organisation, the accident happened in the Upper Dir district which has been experiencing heavy...

New Delhi: Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump Friday slammed his rival Kamala Harris over her first major interview since her entry into the election after Joe Biden's exit. "I just saw Comrade Kamala Harris' answer to a very weakly-phrased question, a...

Washington: US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has said her “values have not changed” as she has altered her position on key issues that could determine her elections, such as fracking, which she had once opposed and now doesn’t. She said this...

New Delhi: The UK's University of Southampton has become the first foreign university to set up its offshore campus in India under the new NEP, the Centre announced Thursday. The University Grants Commission (UGC) had in 2023 announced the Setting up and Operation of Campuses...

Beijing: Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Thursday as the latter wound up a three-day visit with the stated aim of keeping communications open in a relationship that has become increasingly tense in recent years. Sullivan, on his first...