International

Washington: The House of Representatives has passed a bill that will strengthen the efforts of the United States to push the Chinese government to resolve the longstanding Tibet-China dispute through dialogue with Tibetan leaders. The bipartisan ‘Promoting a Resolution to the Tibet-China Dispute Act', also...

Washington: US President Joe Biden and his administration are working very hard to thwart and disrupt attacks on Indian and Indian American students, the White House has said. The announcement by John Kirby, Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White...

Berlin: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to sign bilateral security agreements with Germany and France on Friday as Kyiv works to shore up Western support nearly two years after Russia launched its full-scale war. The Ukrainian leader was welcomed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz at...

Lahore: A fresh round of crackdown has been launched allegedly by the Pakistan Army against jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party in a bid to put pressure on the winners in the elections to change their loyalties to parties backed by the powerful military....

Dubai: Egypt is building a wall and is leveling land near its border with the Gaza Strip ahead of a planned Israeli offensive targeting the border city of Rafah, satellite images analyzed Friday by The Associated Press show. Egypt, which has not publicly acknowledged the...

Melbourne: A 28-year-old Indian woman was found dead in her car in an apparent flood-related incident in a remote area in Australia's Queensland state, authorities said Friday. The Indian High Commission in Canberra said its mission team was in touch “for all necessary assistance”. “Heartbreaking...

London: Voters in two districts in England delivered new blows to beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, electing opposition-party lawmakers in seats that Sunak's Conservatives had held for years. Labour Party candidate Dan Egan won the House of Commons seats of Kingswood in southwest England, and...

Washington: The US House of Representatives has passed the Quad bill which instructs the Biden administration to establish a Quad Intra-Parliamentary Working Group to facilitate closer cooperation between the US, Australia, India and Japan. Passed by a roll call vote of 379 to 39 votes,...

New York: A state judge has ordered former President Donald Trump's criminal trial on alleged hush money payments to start March 25 -- in the middle of the Republican Party primaries -- while in Atlanta, uncertainty over the prosecutor’s conduct clouded the timeline of a...

Sanaa: Yemen's Houthi group has claimed responsibility for attacking a British ship in the Gulf of Aden with several missiles. "We carried out a military operation against a British ship, Lycavitos, while it was sailing in the Gulf of Aden," Yahya Sarea, the Houthi military...