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Islamabad: Pakistan's election commission has warned that the general elections may have to be delayed if the process of changing electoral symbols does not stop, asserting that it could not keep making alterations with the February 8 polls just around the corner. The Election Commission...

Washington: After suspending his presidential campaign, Indian-American Vivek Ramaswamy thinks it would be "healthy for the country" if Republican candidates Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, drop out of the 2024 White House race and endorse former President Donald Trump. In an interview with Fox News...

Colombo: The Sri Lankan Navy has arrested 18 Indian fishermen and seized their trawlers for allegedly poaching in the island nation's waters, an official statement said Wednesday, in the third such incident this month. The fishermen were arrested, and their two trawlers seized Tuesday off...

Beijing: China's population dipped for a second consecutive year as the overall numbers fell by 2.08 million last year to 1.4097 billion as India overtook China to become the most populous country in the world in 2023, according to the annual official data released Wednesday....

United Nations: UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis is to visit India later this month after attending the Nonaligned and Group of 77 summits in Uganda, according to his spokesperson Monica Grayley. She told reporters Tuesday that he is scheduled to visit India and China...

Islamabad: Pakistan Wednesday warned Iran of "serious consequences" after Tehran launched unprecedented missile and drone attacks on terrorist bases in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, which killed two children and injured three others. Two bases of Balochi militant group Jaish al Adl in Pakistan were targeted...

Davos: The US will continue to support Ukraine, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has assured. The assurance came soon after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that assistance from the US and Europe was necessary to win the war against Russia. He said Ukraine would continue...

Gaza: The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 24,285, the Gaza-based Health Ministry has said. The ministry in a press statement Tuesday said that the Israeli army killed 158 Palestinians and wounded 320 others during the past...

Aden: The US has reportedly conducted a series of fresh airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen's central province of Al Bayda. Yasser Jahlan, a local government official, said that the strikes occurred Tuesday just several hours after the Houthi group claimed responsibility for a missile...

Jerusalem: US Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry from a ship bound for Yemen's Houthi rebels in a raid last week that saw two of its commandos go missing, the US military said Tuesday. The raid marks the latest seizure by the...