International

Dakar(Senegal): The death toll from the capsize off Senegal of a boat carrying migrants has risen to 39 following the discovery of new bodies Monday, the country's emergency services said. The boat, which left Saint-Louis in northern Senegal and was headed to the Spanish coast,...

Islamabad: Lahore has been named the world's most polluted city Monday, with an Air Quality Index (AQI) reported at 590, local media reported. According to IQAir's global ranking from 9 am to 10 am on Monday, Lahore was ranked as the most polluted city in...

Bangkok: China denied Monday that there was a spy plot to ensnare Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, calling the spying allegations unsubstantiated and a smear campaign against Beijing. Huang has acknowledged to the Nvidia board that he had been intimate with a business executive who US...

New York: World shares and US futures advanced Monday after artificial intelligence stocks recovered some ground lost in last week's sell-offs. In early European trading, Germany's DAX climbed 0.6 per cent to 25,974.42, and the CAC 40 in Paris was up 0.4 per cent, at...

Antalya (Turkiye): With climate change intensifying extreme weather events and threatening communities worldwide, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell on Monday called on countries to use COP31 to accelerate practical solutions, stressing that the urgency of the moment must drive collective action. Addressing the...

Dubai: Union Minister for Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju attended the inaugural ceremony of the sixth Hajj Conference and Exhibition in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah, reaffirming India's commitment to pilgrims' welfare and the successful conduct of Hajj 2027. Strengthening the India “Saudi Arabia partnership with a shared...

Washington: President Donald Trump in his first major interview since his party lost control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections said he thinks his administration was too aggressive on deportations and that he thinks he can work with Democrats in the new...

San Francisco: Nvidia is opening an investigation into reports that CEO Jensen Huang was the "target of a foreign intelligence effort," the company's board of directors said Sunday. The announcement came after Huang acknowledged to the board that he had been intimate with a business...

Peshawar: A police officer was killed and three others were abducted after terrorists launched an attack on a checkpost in northwest Pakistan Monday, an official said. According to District Police Officer (DPO) Salahuddin Kundi, the incident took place at a checkpost on the Shah Almas...

Dhaka: Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina requested a new passport Monday to facilitate her return from exile two years after she was ousted in a mass uprising. The government has been seeking her extradition from India and earlier dismissed suggestions she needed new identification...