International

Moscow: Assailants burst into a large concert hall in Moscow Friday and sprayed the crowd with gunfire, killing over 60 people, injuring more than 100 and setting fire to the venue in a brazen attack just days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on...

Male: After his anti-India rhetoric, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has struck a reconciliatory tone, saying India will continue to remain his country's “closest ally” and urged New Delhi to provide debt relief to the archipelago nation. The Maldives owed approximately USD 400.9 million to India...

Thimphu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday assured Bhutan's top leadership that India will stand by the Himalayan kingdom in its quest for development and that their unique bilateral ties would create avenues for greater cooperation in connectivity, infrastructure, trade and energy sectors. Prime Minister Modi,...

United Nations: Russia and China Friday vetoed a US-sponsored UN resolution calling for “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza to protect civilians and enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to more than two million hungry Palestinians. The vote in the...

Sydney: Australia is set to provide 4.6 billion Australian dollars ($3 billion) to British industry to support the construction of nuclear-powered submarines and ensure its new fleet arrives on time, the two countries said Friday. The announcement came a day after the two countries signed...

Jerusalem: United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Friday in Tel Aviv, Israel, on the final stop in his sixth urgent trip to the region since the start of the war. Blinken says he will share alternatives to Israel's planned ground assault into the...

Kyiv: Russia attacked electrical power facilities in much of Ukraine, including the country's largest hydroelectric plant, causing widespread outages and killing at least three people, officials said Friday. Energy Minister German Galushchenko said the nighttime drone and rocket attacks were “the largest attack on the...

New Delhi: Bhutan conferred its highest civilian award, the Order of the Druk Gyalpo, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday, making him the first foreign head of a government to receive the kingdom's highest civilian honour. He was presented the award by King Jigme Khesar...

Jakarta: A 6.0 magnitude quake struck off Indonesia's province of East Java Friday, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said. The undersea quake rocked at 11.22 a.m. Jakarta time (0422 GMT) with its epicenter situated at 132 km northeast of Tuban regency, and a...

Lahore: A Pakistani court sentenced a Muslim woman to life in prison after finding her guilty of burning pages of Islam's holy book, a prosecutor said Friday. Under Pakistan's blasphemy laws, anyone found guilty of insulting the religion or religious figures can be sentenced up...