International

London: It was not your typical smash-and-grab burglary and the booty was precious: a toilet worth more than its weight in gold. The one-of-a-kind 18-carat gold toilet was swiped in under five minutes from Blenheim Palace, the sprawling English country mansion where British wartime leader...

New York: US President Donald Trump has announced plans for an immigration Gold Card that companies can buy for $5 million for highly talented employees to deal with the uncertainties of work visas and green cards. The Gold Card programme he announced Tuesday, though, is...

Jerusalem: Israeli and Hamas officials said Tuesday they have reached an agreement to exchange the bodies of dead hostages for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, keeping their fragile ceasefire intact for at least a few more days. Israel has delayed the release of...

Kathmandu: Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli Tuesday assured all possible government support to the parents of Prakriti Lamsal, a 20-year-old Nepali student of a private engineering institute in India who died allegedly by suicide at her hostel room earlier this month. Speaking with the...

Dhaka: Bangladesh interim government's Information Adviser and one of the key leaders of the students' movement, Nahid Islam, Tuesday resigned from the cabinet, ahead of the launch of a new political party by the July uprising activists. "Given the current situation in the country, the...

Seoul: Thousands of supporters of South Korean impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol gathered around the Constitutional Court Tuesday amid the final hearing of his impeachment trial, calling for the nullification of the impeachment. Approximately 3,800 police officers were dispatched near the court's main entrance and...

Kabul: Japan and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) signed a new agreement in Kabul, Afghanistan to support livelihoods and self-reliance for forcibly displaced and returned Afghans. The Government of Japan and UNHCR Monday signed a new $6 million agreement for a project...

Los Angeles: At least twelve deaths have been reported in the United States amid a multi-state outbreak of Listeria infections linked to supplemental shakes, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. At least 38 people in 21 states were infected, with 37...

Seoul: The South Korean National Assembly's legal team demanded President Yoon Suk Yeol's removal from office over his short-lived imposition of martial law during its final arguments before the Constitutional Court Tuesday. Yoon was absent from the courtroom as the team of lawyers began presenting...

United Nations: In a sign of its relations with Western allies fraying, the US managed to get its resolution on Ukraine that did not name Russia as the aggressor adopted intact after failing in the General Assembly. The resolution got through as drafted by the...