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Beirut: An airstrike on southern Syria early Thursday killed at least nine people and was probably carried out by Jordan's air force, Syrian opposition activists said, the latest in a series of strikes in an area where cross-border drug smugglers have been active. There was...

Davos: IMF Chief Kristalina Georgieva Thursday said interest rates should keep falling in 2024 but cautioned that there is no room for any policy error as the last mile is "very, very tricky". In an interview with the World Economic Forum here during its Annual...

Bangkok: China and the Philippines said they have agreed to work on lowering tensions after a year of public and tense confrontations in the South China Sea between their ships that have raised concerns of armed engagement in the region. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

Davos: Union minister Smriti Irani Thursday said India sees itself as a bridge between the global South and the global North. Smriti Irani, global south, global north, BRICS, she also said India is one partner that all members of the expanded BRICS can count on....

Wellington: New Zealand's food prices are 4.8 per cent higher than a year ago, the lowest annual increase since December 2021, the statistics department Stats NZ said Thursday. In December 2023, the annual increase was due to price rises across all the food categories measured,...

Islamabad: Pakistan Thursday conducted ‘precision military strikes’ against what it called ‘terrorist hideouts’ in Iran's Siestan-Balochistan province that killed nine people, a day after Islamabad recalled its ambassador from Tehran and suspended all planned high-level bilateral visits following Iranian missile and drone attacks in Balochistan....

Islamabad: Pakistani airstrikes in Iran Thursday morning killed four children and three women, a local official told Iranian state television. A deputy governor of Sistan and Baluchistan province, Ali Reza Marhamati, gave the casualty figures in a telephone interview. He did not immediately elaborate. The...

Tel Aviv: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Thursday announced the death of three soldiers in the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, taking the total number of troopers killed in the ground offensive to 193. The military identified the deceased soldiers as Master Sgt. (res.)...

New Delhi: India Wednesday said that the Iranian attacks on bases of a terror group in Pakistan were a matter between the two countries while reiterating its zero-tolerance stance towards terrorism. "This is a matter between Iran and Pakistan. As far as India is concerned,...

Washington: The families of American hostages being held captive by Hamas militants in Gaza will meet US National Security Adviser (NSA) Jake Sullivan at the White House Thursday, an official said. The official told CNN that the White House has extended invitations to the family...