International

Washington: US Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation to block federal funding for the Trump administration’s new “public charge” rule, warning that it could deter immigrant families from seeking health care, food assistance and housing support. Representative Judy Chu and Senator Mazie Hirono introduced the Protect American...

Washington: NASA astronauts Anil Menon and Jessica Meir Friday concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station to assemble a modification kit for its power channel, which would allow the addition of solar arrays. The spacewalk, the 281st in support of the space station sixth...

London: Banks and shadow fleet ships are among the latest targets of UK sanctions on Russia announced Thursday as part of the country's support for Ukraine in the ongoing conflict. This week's sanctions package marks the first by Ed Miliband, who took charge as UK...

Kyiv: Ukraine hit more oil facilities deep inside Russia in nighttime attacks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday, as Kyiv kept up its campaign to undermine Moscow's wartime economy and embarrass the Kremlin. The repeated strikes have caused fuel shortages and rattled Russians while heartening...

Colombo: An Indian fishing vessel with 11 crew members met with an accident in Sri Lankan waters, prompting a rescue operation by the island nation's navy, according to an official statement Thursday. According to the Sri Lanka Navy, the trawler had reportedly crossed the International...

Peshawar: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf supporters will march towards Islamabad on September 27 if "justice" is not provided to the party's founding chairman and incarcerated former prime minister, Imran Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Chief Minister Suhail Afridi has announced. Afridi made the announcement while addressing a large...

Cape Canaveral: A SpaceX rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers undoubtedly slammed into the moon as predicted Wednesday after drifting off course for the past year, scientists reported. Although the 5,400-mph (8,700-kph) collision had yet to be officially confirmed, space tracking experts said...

New Delhi: Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday declared that she is determined to return home in December, pledging to face the risk of arrest or a death sentence, in order to "restore democracy and justice" to the country. Hasina said this at a...

New Delhi: India Wednesday categorically rejected Pakistan's "futile attempts" to observe August 5 as 'Youm-e-Istehsal' or 'Day of Exploitation' to oppose the scrapping of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir seven years ago. External affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said Pakistan's attempts to interfere...

Kyiv: Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed at least 15 people and wounded 42 others overnight into Wednesday, Ukraine's state emergency service said. The attack was the latest in a series of large-scale Russian ballistic missile strikes that have...