International

Washington: US President Joe Biden has designated Kenya as a major non-NATO ally (MNNA) of his country. "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 517 of the Foreign Assistance Act...

Moscow: The death toll from Sunday's attacks in southern Russia's Republic of Dagestan has risen to 20, the region's Health Minister has said. "As a result of the terrorist attack in the cities of Makhachkala and Derbent June 23, 46 people were injured," Tatyana Belyaeva...

Seoul: A fire at a lithium battery manufacturing factory near South Korea's capital Monday left at least 16 people dead, seven injured and six missing, officials said. Rescue workers at the factory in Hwaseong City, just south of Seoul, retrieved the bodies after combing through...

Seoul: US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell expressed ‘strong’ support for ‘any measures’ taken by South Korea in response to the expanding illegal military cooperation between Russia and North Korea in phone talks with his South Korean counterpart Monday, Seoul's foreign ministry said. Campbell...

Moscow: At least 15 police officers were killed in a series of attacks in southern Russia's Republic of Dagestan, RIA Novosti reported Monday, citing local authorities. The shootings, which also resulted in civilian casualties, occurred Sunday at two orthodox churches, a synagogue and a traffic...

New Delhi: Nearly a quarter century after his first visit as the newly-minted Russian President, Vladimir Putin was back last week in North Korea, where he met its leader Kim Jong-un - son of Kim Jong-il who he had met in 2000 - for talks...

Moscow: Two Orthodox churches, a synagogue, and a traffic police station in Russia's Dagestan region were attacked Sunday, leaving a priest and at least seven security personnel, including six local policemen, dead, reports said. A counter-terrorism operation has been launched in Dagestan in response to...

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has announced that it recorded 1,301 deaths among pilgrims during the Haj season, 83 per cent of whom were unregistered individuals. The Saudi Health Minister Fahd Al-Jalajel said Sunday that the kingdom's healthcare sector addressed "numerous" heat stress cases, with some individuals...

Tokyo: Only 10.4 per cent of the Japanese public support Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in the upcoming ruling Liberal Democratic Party leadership race, signalling widespread dissatisfaction, a media poll showed Sunday. Conducted by national news agency Kyodo over the weekend, the telephone survey showed Kishida's...

Manila: The president of the Philippines said Sunday his country would not yield to “any foreign power” after Chinese forces injured Filipino navy personnel and damaged at least two military boats with machetes, axes and hammers in a clash in the disputed South China Sea,...