International

New Delhi: India Thursday expressed concern over the deadly attack on Iranian diplomatic premises in Syrian capital Damascus three days back and said that it is distressed at the escalating tensions in West Asia and their potential to fuel further instability. Following the April 1...

Islamabad: Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch Thursday ruled out negotiations with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and asked Afghanistan to take immediate action against terrorist outfits operating from its soil to ‘destabilise’ Islamabad. During a weekly press briefing here, Baloch said, "Pakistan expected Afghan...

Hualien: Rescuers searched Thursday for dozens of people still missing a day after Taiwan's strongest earthquake in a quarter century damaged buildings, killed 10 people and left others stranded in remote areas. In the eastern coastal city of Hualien near the epicentre, workers used an...

Kyiv: Russian troops launched waves of Shahed drones against the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight, killing four people and wounding 12, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said Thursday. Russia attacked Ukraine's second-biggest city with at least 15 drones, some of which were shot down by air...

Islamabad: The World Bank has painted a grim economic picture of Pakistan in its biannual report, cautioning that over 10 million more people are at risk of descending into poverty in the cash-strapped country. The Washington-based lender's apprehension comes from a sluggish economic growth rate...

Tel Aviv: The first batch of more than 60 workers from India have arrived in Israel under a government-to-government agreement to bolster the country's construction industry facing a huge shortage of trained hands. The G2G mechanism has been worked out to keep away middlemen and...

Taipei: The strongest earthquake in a quarter-century rocked Taiwan during the morning rush hour Wednesday, killing nine people, sending some scrambling out windows of damaged buildings and halting train service throughout the island. A tsunami warning was triggered but later lifted. The quake was centred...

Port-au-Prince: More than 53,000 people have fled Haiti's capital in less than three weeks, the vast majority to escape unrelenting gang violence, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday. More than 60 per cent are headed to Haiti's rural southern region, which worries UN...

Washington: US President Joe Biden and his Republican rival and predecessor Donald Trump have easily won their presidential primaries in four more states as they are set for a 2020 rematch in November. Tuesday, hundreds of delegates were up for grabs in Rhode Island, Connecticut,...

Taipei: Taiwan's strongest earthquake in a quarter century rocked the island during the morning rush Wednesday, damaging buildings and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on southern Japanese islands. There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries, and the tsunami threat largely passed about...