International

Cupertino (California): Apple has appointed Indian-origin Kevan Parekh as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) who will also join the the executive team at the tech giant. Current CFO Luca Maestri will transition from his role January 1, 2025, Apple said in a statement. “For...

Balochistan (Pakistan): More than 70 people have been killed in multiple cases of terror attacks in the Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan, media reported, quoting military and police officials. The country's military said that 14 soldiers and police were killed as well as 21 terrorists...

Kyiv: Russia unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage throughout Ukraine Monday, and at least three people were reported killed in the attack that appeared to target energy infrastructure. The barrage began around midnight and continued after daybreak in what appeared to be Russia's biggest...

Beijing: China's military is carrying out armed patrols near the Myanmar border this week, where the government is concerned about potential fallout from fierce fighting in a civil war on the other side. Troops were deployed to Yunnan province in southwestern China Monday to test...

Karachi: Unidentified gunmen in a targeted attack shot and killed at least 23 people from Pakistan's Punjab province in the restive Balochistan province after offloading them from buses and checking their identities, according to media reports Monday. The incident happened in Balochistan's Musakhel district. According...

New Delhi: Encrypted messaging app Telegram Monday said that its CEO Pavel Durov — who was arrested in France — has nothing to hide and “it is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform.” In its...

Kyiv: Russia has launched attacks on northern, eastern and southern Ukraine, killing at least four people and injuring 37, Ukrainian military and local authorities said. Overnight attacks targeted Ukraine's frontline regions of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk, Ukraine's Air Force said Sunday on the Telegram...

Jerusalem: Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon early Sunday in what it said was a preemptive strike on Hezbollah. The militant group responded that it had launched hundreds of rockets and drones to avenge the killing of one of its top commanders...

Islamabad/Karachi: At least 37 people, including 11 pilgrims, were killed and several others injured in two separate bus accidents in Pakistan Sunday. The first accident occurred when a bus carrying 70 people, bringing Shia pilgrims back from Iran to Punjab province, veered off the Makran...

New Delhi: NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore, who flew to the International Space Station (ISS) in June this year on board Boeing's faulty Starliner capsule, will return to Earth early next year, the space agency said in a release. NASA will return the...