International

Ottawa: Indian officials, including Canada-based proxies, engage in a range of activities that seek to influence Canadian communities and politicians to ‘align’ Ottawa's position with New Delhi's interests on key issues, particularly concerns over Khalistani separatists in Canada, an official probe has found. The findings...

Ottawa: Canadian police have arrested three Indian nationals believed by investigators to be members of an alleged hit squad tasked by the government of India with the killing of Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey last year, police said. The ties between India and...

Sao Paulo: The death toll from heavy rains in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to 39 with nearly 70 people still missing, the Civil Defence agency said. The heavy rain was one of the worst climate tragedies that has...

Tel Aviv: Hamas has agreed to release 20 Israeli hostages in its custody instead of the 33 proposed by Israel. A delegation of Hamas leaders led by Khalil al-Hayva has reached the Egyptian capital of Cairo for a fresh round of indirect mediatory talks regarding...

Jakarta: A flood and a landslide hit Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing 14 people, officials said Saturday. Torrential rain pounding the area since Thursday triggered a landslide in Luwu district in South Sulawesi province, said local rescue chief Mexianus Bekabel. Floods up to 3 meters (10...

London: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's leadership is under severe pressure Friday as the results of local elections and a crucial by-election poured in overnight, delivering what is being characterised as one of the worst poll outcomes for the governing Conservative Party in 40 years....

Taipei: For the first time, China has publicised what it claims is an unwritten 2016 agreement with the Philippines over access to South China Sea islands. The move threatens to further raise tensions in the disputed waterway, through which much of the world's trade passes...

Los Angeles: Police began clearing out protesters at New York University Friday, the latest development in weeks of pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses nationwide that have resulted in nearly 2,200 arrests. Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry posted on X that NYU requested police assistance...

Brussels: Germany's top diplomat on Friday said Russia will face consequences after accusing its military intelligence service of masterminding an “absolutely intolerable” cyberattack, as NATO and European Union member countries said they will not let Russia's “malicious" behaviour in cyberspace go unanswered. Relations between Russia...

Beijing: China Friday launched a lunar probe mission to collect samples for the first time from the far side of the moon and bring them to Earth for scientific studies. The Chang'e-6 mission is tasked with collecting and then returning samples from the moon's far...