International

Washington: US President Donald Trump said the United States carried out a major bombing raid on Iran’s strategic Kharg Island, claiming American forces “totally obliterated” military targets at the country’s key oil export hub while deliberately sparing energy infrastructure. In a social media statement, Trump...

Tehran: Iran Saturday accused the United States of double standards over Russian oil, saying that Washington was now "begging" countries to purchase the same crude it had earlier tried to block through pressure and sanctions. In an X post, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi slammed...

New York: Eleven Indian nationals, living illegally in the US, have been charged with visa fraud for conspiring to carry out staged armed robberies of convenience shops, according to US federal prosecutors. Authorities said the suspects are accused of organising fake robberies for the purpose...

Colombo: Sri Lanka has repatriated the remains of 84 Iranian sailors who were killed when their frigate was sunk by a US submarine, an official said. Last week, Wednesday, Sri Lanka said it had recovered 84 bodies of Iranian sailors after the US submarine attack...

New Delhi: Two Indian nationals were killed and several others injured in an attack in Oman's Sohar amid the ongoing conflict in West Asia, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Friday. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in a post on X that the Indian...

Kathmandu: The government of Nepal has decided to stop providing visa-on-arrival facilities to Iranian citizens visiting the country amid the ongoing US–Iran conflict in West Asia, the country's Department of Immigration said Friday. “The move is aimed at preventing an influx of Iranian citizens into...

Washington: U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that Iran’s newly installed supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, had been wounded and forced into hiding as the country’s military leadership struggled amid intense American strikes. Speaking at a Pentagon briefing, Hegseth said Iran’s leadership was under growing...

Kabul: Afghanistan's Taliban government accused Pakistan's military Friday of targeting homes in overnight airstrikes in Kabul and other areas of the country, saying at least six civilians were killed and more than a dozen injured, as fighting between the neighbours entered its third week. Afghan...

Dubai: Four of the six crew members aboard a US military KC-135 refuelling aircraft that crashed in western Iraq have been found dead, the American military said. The US military's Central Command made the announcement in a statement. "Four of six crew members on board...

New Delhi: The US waiver for buying seaborne Russian crude has immediately freed another 20-odd million barrels of oil on board ships, which is expected to cool runaway prices that have crossed the $100 per barrel mark in the global market amid the Iran war....