International

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an end to the Ukraine crisis. He appealed Friday at a Security Council meeting scheduled to coincide with the second anniversary of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, Xinhua news agency reported. Two years on, the...

Nanjing: The death toll from the building fire that broke out Friday in Nanjing, the capital city of China's Jiangsu province, has climbed to 15, local officials said Saturday. The local fire department received an alarm about the fire in a residential building in Yuhuatai...

Washington: The United States and the European Union are piling new sanctions on Russia on the eve of the second anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine and in retaliation for the death of noted Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last week in an Arctic penal colony....

Jerusalem: Israeli strikes have killed at least 71 people in southern and central Gaza during roughly the past 24 hours, the territory's health officials said Thursday. And tensions are rising in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where three gunmen opened fire Thursday morning on a road...

Jerusalem: Israel will control security in a demilitarised Gaza Strip and play a role in civilian affairs after its war on Hamas ends, according to a plan Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu submitted to his Cabinet for approval. While lacking specifics, the plan marks the first...

Beirut: Hamas says its political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, has left Egypt after holding talks with Egyptian officials about a possible cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and an exchange of hostages held by the militants for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. The statement released early Friday by...

Sanaa: Yemen's Houthi group has said it had launched attacks on an Israeli city, a British cargo ship, and a US warship, in what it called a response to the "American-British aggression" against Yemen and its support of the Palestinians in Gaza. The Houthi military...

San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Friday congratulated the US company Intuitive Machines on the moon rover landing. Intuitive Machines' first lunar lander touched down on the moon early Friday morning, marking the first American spacecraft to land on the lunar surface in...

Los Angeles: US company Intuitive Machines' first lunar lander touched down on the moon early Friday morning, marking the first American spacecraft to land on the lunar surface in more than 50 years. The uncrewed lander, named Odysseus, landed at the lunar South Pole Thursday...

Lahore: Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, is set to become the first woman chief minister of Pakistan's Punjab province following the summoning of the inaugural session of the provincial legislature Friday. Out of five assemblies in Pakistan that went to...