International

Colombo: Sri Lanka has decided to discontinue the use of indelible ink to mark voters during elections, with authorities citing additional costs and unnecessary delays in the voting process associated with it. Voters are currently required to submit their national identity card and are subject...

Abuja (Nigeria): An armed group killed at least 20 people in a community located in the north-central region of Nigeria, police said Monday. The attack occurred Sunday in the Kawel community located in the Bokkos area of Plateau State, police spokesman Alfred Alabo said in...

New Delhi: With the West Asia conflict leading to energy shocks and disruption in supply chains due to the choking of Strait of Hormuz, the importance of alternative trade routes for countries like India has come to the fore, according to a new report. In...

Dhaka: Dozens of activists of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina's now-disbanded Awami League party were arrested overnight as they staged sporadic street marches to mark the party's 77th founding anniversary in defiance of a nationwide security ban, authorities said Tuesday. Founded June 23, 1949, when...

Brussels: A delegation from the Afghan Taliban is travelling to Brussels Tuesday for closed-door talks with European Union staff, expected to focus on deportations, said a Taliban official. Rights groups said the meeting undercuts the EU's human rights obligations and could endanger people in Europe...

Islamabad: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will arrive in Islamabad Tuesday on a day-long visit to discuss regional and international developments of mutual interest with the top Pakistani leadership. President Pezeshkian, accompanied by a high-level delegation, left for Islamabad aboard a special aircraft, Minab 168, to...

Dubai: Iran said Tuesday that there's been no visit scheduled for inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to see nuclear sites earlier bombed by the United States. Esmail Baghaei made the comment to journalists at a news conference in Tehran, Iran's capital. Baghaei's remarks...

Beijing: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that it is "imperative" for India and China to respect each other's "core interests" and take concrete actions to implement the "important consensus" reached by the leaders of both countries. Wang, who is in New Delhi to...

Washington: US President Donald Trump said "respect" from Iran would be key to sustaining peace after the end of the Iran-Israel war, expressing optimism about fully reopening the Strait of Hormuz to create "an oil gusher". "As long as they respect us, I don't want...

New Delhi: National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval Tuesday said that India welcomed the memorandum of understanding reached between Iran and the US and viewed the development with cautious optimism and hoped it would contribute positively to regional and global stability. Addressing the 16th BRICS...