International

Beirut: Hezbollah attacked the Mount Neria base, a battalion leadership headquarters of Israel's Golani Brigade forces, with volleys of Katyusha rockets late Tuesday night, according to state media. Earlier, Hezbollah had launched more than 20 rockets from southern Lebanon at the Meron base in northern...

The United Auto Workers filed federal labour charges against former president Donald Trump and businessman Elon Musk after a high-profile conversation Monday evening on Musk’s social media platform X, the union said Tuesday. The charges of unfair labour practices that the autoworkers union filed with...

Dhaka/New Delhi: Bangladesh's deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday demanded "justice", saying those involved in recent "terror acts", killings and vandalism must be investigated, identified and punished. In her first public statement after her ouster August 5, 76-year-old Hasina said several lives have been lost...

Dhaka: The apex body of Hindus in Bangladesh Tuesday said the minority Hindu community faced attacks and threats in 278 locations across 48 districts since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government August 5 and termed it as an “assault on the Hindu religion.” The...

Dhaka: Bangladesh's deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and six others, including two senior ministers of her cabinet and the sacked police chief, would face trial on murder charges, court officials said Tuesday. The murder case filed against 76-year-old Hasina is the first so far against...

Dhaka: Bangladesh's interim government has set up a hotline asking people to provide information about attacks on Hindu temples, churches or any other religious institutions, amid reports of vandalisation of religious places, businesses and properties of minorities following the ouster of prime minister Sheikh Hasina....

Islamabad: Pakistan's ruling coalition has hailed the arrest of former ISI chief Lt Gen (retd.) Faiz Hameed in connection with a housing scheme scandal but jailed former premier Imran Khan's party decided to stay neutral and termed it the army's ‘internal matter’. Hameed served as...

Dubai: Suspected attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted shipping in the Red Sea Tuesday, officials said, the latest in their campaign of assaults over the Israel-Hamas war. The attacks come as Yemen's main sponsor, Iran, weighs a possible retaliatory attack against Israel over the assassination...

Khartoum: A total of 68 people were killed due to rains and floods that have hit several parts of Sudan since June, the country's Interior Minister Khalil Pasha Sairin said. "The number of deaths due to the floods and rains reached 68 for various reasons,...

Washington: The US has rejected the allegations of its government's involvement in the Bangladesh crisis, including the protests in the country that led to the deaths of hundreds of people. Refuting all the reports and rumours, the White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean Pierre, said...