International

Islamabad: Officials from the Indian High Commission in Pakistan met with two Indian nationals, who were arrested on charges of espionage four years ago, at the high-security Adiala Jail at Rawalpindi, media reports said here. Two youths, 29-year-old Feroze Ahmad Lone and 24-year-old Noor Muhammad...

Chhindwara: A ‘mentally disturbed’ man allegedly hacked to death eight members of his joint family with an axe in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district Wednesday and later committed suicide by hanging himself, police said. The incident took place at around 2:30am in Bodal Kachhar village and...

Islamabad: At least 28 people were killed and 20 others injured Wednesday when a bus they were travelling in plunged into a ravine in Washuk district of Pakistan's Balochistan province. The incident occurred as one of the tyres of the bus en route to Quetta...

Tel Aviv: US Republican leader and former envoy to the UN Nikki Haley has been photographed writing 'Finish Them' on an artillery shell of the Israeli Army. The pictures were shared by Israel Parliament Member Danny Danon, who accompanied Haley on her visit to the...

Cairo: Saudi Arabia has condemned Israel following deadly airstrikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. The Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Riyadh condemned "the continuous genocidal massacres committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people without deterrence by continuing...

Ramallah: Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesperson for the Palestinian presidency, has blamed the US administration for the ongoing escalation in Rafah, the southernmost city of the Gaza Strip. "We hold the US administration fully responsible for the situation in Rafah and across Gaza," Abu Rudeineh told...

Jerusalem: The Israeli military has said its initial investigation findings indicated that it was unexpected secondary explosions and fire that caused dozens of civilian deaths in its airstrike on Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday night. In a video posted Tuesday on the website of the...

Lahore: Former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif Tuesday admitted that Islamabad had "violated" an agreement with India signed by him and ex-prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999, in an apparent reference to the Kargil misadventure by Gen Pervez Musharraf. "On May 28, 1998, Pakistan carried...

Deir al-Balah: Israeli strikes on Rafah have killed at least 16 Palestinians, first responders said Tuesday, as residents reported an escalation of fighting in the southern Gaza city. An Israeli incursion launched in early May has caused nearly 1 million to flee from Rafah, most...

Colombo: The United National Party headed by Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe Tuesday suggested holding a referendum to postpone both presidential and general elections and extending the terms of both offices for two years to pursue economic reforms to stabilise the country's economy. The island...