Russia, Ukraine trade blame for attack on Kursk school
MOSCOW: Kyiv and Moscow traded blame for a strike on a school in a Ukrainian-occupied town in Russia's Kursk region, while Kyiv said new missile and drone attacks killed at least 18 people in Ukraine. Fighting in the nearly three-year war has shown n...
Modi felicitates Trump, says India-US to work together
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump spoke over phone on Monday, Modi said in a post on X, the first contact between the two leaders since Trump's inauguration last week. "We are committed to a mutually benefic...
Afghan Taliban supporters rally against ICC arrest warrant requests
GHAZNI: Afghanistan: Some 200 Taliban supporters rallied in central Afghanistan on Sunday against the International Criminal Court chief prosecutor’s request for arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders. The rally followed the announcement by th...
Champions Trophy: Pakistan’s name on India’s jersey to be included, confirms BCCI
New Delhi: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed that the Pakistan’s name on the India’s jersey to be included. According to the Indian media, the India’s jersey will feature the ICC approved logo of the Champions T...
First three Israeli hostages freed by Hamas under Gaza truce
GAZA: The first three Israeli hostages returning home under a long-awaited Gaza truce were transferred to the Red Cross, a Hamas official and the Israeli military said. The hostages, all women, "were officially handed over to the Red Cross" in Gaza C...
India's RAW behind assassinations, targeted killings in Pakistan
WASHINGTON: India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) spy agency orchestrated a covert assassination campaign, fueling a wave of targeted killings in Pakistan, according to a report from The Washington Post. The report adds that Indian Prime Minister...
Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row inmates
WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row, replacing capital punishment with life imprisonment, the White House announced on Monday. The decision comes weeks before Presi...
World must listen to cries of grief-stricken Palestinians
CAIRO: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called on the international community to listen to the suffering and cries of the people of Gaza. Speaking at a special session on the situation in Palestine and Lebanon at the D-8 Summit, the Prime Minister e...
Naqvi holds security, anti-drug talks with Saudi counterpart
RIYADH: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met with Saudi Arabia's Interior Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif, in Riyadh yesterday to discuss matters of security cooperation and combating drug trafficking. The two leaders reviewed the ongoing...
German Chancellor Scholz loses confidence vote
BERLIN: Germany's centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote yesterday after weeks of turmoil, setting Europe's biggest economy on the path to early elections on February 23. The Bundestag vote, which Scholz had expected to lose, allow...
