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New Delhi: Several Indians, who worked as support staff to the Russian army, were "discharged" following India's demand, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Monday. It said India remains committed, as a matter of "top priority", to actively pursuing with the Russian authorities all...

Jerusalem: Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said Monday his government is resigning, in a move that could open the door to US-backed reforms in the Palestinian Authority. President Mahmoud Abbas must still decide whether he accepts Shtayyeh and his government's resignation. But the move signals...

Lahore: Senior PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Monday became the first woman chief minister of Pakistan's Punjab province. Maryam, the 50-year-old senior vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party, won the chief ministerial elections amidst...

Islamabad: Jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan's party has once again tapped Barrister Gohar Khan as its chairman, in a U-turn from its earlier decision nominating Barrister Ali Zafar for the top post, a media report said Monday. Barrister Gohar, 45, was elected as...

New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs said Monday that it remains committed to pursuing all the relevant cases of its nationals for an early discharge from the Russian army. The remarks were in response to "inaccurate reports" in the media regarding Indians with the...

Kathmandu: An Indian national was arrested Sunday from Nepal's international airport here for possessing more than one kilogram of concealed raw gold, the third such incident within a week. Tashlima Sultan Brusa, 37, was arrested during a security check at the Tribhuvan International Airport here...

Colombo: Thousands of Russians and Ukrainians staying in Sri Lanka on extended visas due to the war have been asked to leave the island nation within two weeks, officials said. The immigration controller has issued a notice to the Tourism Ministry that the Russian and...

Tel Aviv: Mediators are making progress on an agreement for a weeks-long cease-fire between Israel and Hamas and the release of dozens of hostages held in Gaza as well as Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, Israeli media reported Sunday. Israel's War Cabinet met to discuss the...

Tallinn(Estonia): Polls opened Sunday in Belarus' tightly controlled parliamentary and local elections that are set to cement the steely rule of the country's authoritarian leader, despite calls for a boycott from the opposition, which dismissed the balloting as a ‘senseless farce.’ President Alexander Lukashenko, who...

Tel Aviv: The Israel delegation led by Chief of Mossad David Barnea and Director of Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, are back in Jerusalem after marathon mediatory talks in Paris and Cairo with US, Qatar and Egyptian officials. The Mossad Chief, according to Israel Defence Ministry...