International

Washington: American journalist Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan were released by Russia Thursday in an exchange of prisoners that has been described as the largest since the height of the Cold War. At least two dozen detainees were involved in the swap with prisoners...

Sanaa: Yemen's Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi has warned that the group will "inevitably" mount a military response to Israel's recent "escalation". "The stance of the 'axis of resistance' is unequivocal: There must be a military response to Israeli transgressions," al-Houthi said Thursday in a televised...

Beirut: Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has announced that it targeted Israeli sites with rockets in response to an airstrike on southern Lebanon that killed four Syrians. "In response to the attack that targeted Chamaa and the martyrdom of several civilians, the Islamic Resistance fighters bombed...

New York: India "will never be a formal ally or partner of the United States" as it is "also a great power" with "its own beliefs, its own interests" but the two can act as allies on the global stage, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt...

Tehran: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued an order for Iran to strike Israel directly, in retaliation for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, a media report said, citing three unnamed Iranian officials. Khamenei gave the order at an emergency...

Kyiv: Ukrainian forces shot down all 89 Shahed drones launched by Russia in a nighttime attack on the country, Ukraine's air force said Wednesday, in what was one of the largest drone barrages this year. No damage or injuries were immediately reported in the bombardment,...

Washington: Engineering teams from NASA and Boeing successfully completed a crucial hot fire test of the Starliner spacecraft’s reaction control system jets July 27, a notification released by NASA said Wednesday. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, assigned to the Boeing Crew Flight Test,...

Washington: US Vice President Kamala Harris will hold her first rally with her yet-to-be-named running mate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 6. The candidates under consideration include Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, US Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and...

Moscow: Russia Wednesday "strongly condemned" the assassination of the head of the Hamas Politburo, Ismail Haniyeh as a result of a missile strike on his residence in Tehran. Addressing mediapersons, Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrey Nastasin...

Beirut: Hezbollah said Wednesday that civil defence teams were still searching for Fouad Shokor, a senior military advisor to Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in the rubble after he was attacked by an Israeli drone in southern Beirut a day earlier. The Israel Defence Forces...