International

Islamabad: Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party has decided to sit in the Opposition in Parliament while launching a countrywide protest against alleged rigging in the elections after its efforts to form the next government failed. The major political parties in Pakistan have stepped...

Washington: Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in Germany discussed the need to ensure freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, highlighting how the US and India play important roles in safeguarding economic stability in the volatile...

Munich: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that he discussed the ‘present state’ of bilateral ties and the current global issues with his Canadian counterpart Melanie Joly, amidst a diplomatic row between the two countries over the killing of a Sikh separatist in Canada....

Paris: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement with France hours after he officialised a similar one with Germany. The agreements send a strong signal of long-term backing as Kyiv works to shore up Western support nearly two years after Russia...

Moscow: Alexei Navalny, Russia’s top opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison Friday, a statement from the Federal Penitentiary Service said. Alexei Navalny was serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism. He felt unwell after a walk and collapsed, the...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Friday held talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken with a focus on key bilateral issues as well as the situation in West Asia, Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific. The meeting took place in Munich on the sidelines...

Tallinn: World leaders and Russian opposition activists wasted no time Friday in blaming the reported death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on President Vladimir Putin and his government. “It is obvious that Alexei Navalny was killed by Putin,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who...

  Moscow: Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin has died in jail, Russia’s prison agency said here. He was 47. Alexei Navalny crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests. The Federal Penitentiary Service said in a statement that Navalny...

Munich: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Friday discussed bilateral cooperation as well as global and regional issues with his British counterpart David Cameron on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference here in Germany. Jaishankar is here to attend the 60th edition of the prestigious...

Rafah (Gaza Strip): Five patients in intensive care died after their oxygen supply was cut off in southern Gaza’s main hospital which was stormed by Israeli troops. The raid caused chaos for hundreds of staff and wounded inside, health officials said here Friday. Troops were...