International

Seoul: North Korea threatened Monday to take "resolute" action after a South Korea-led monitoring group implementing UN sanctions against the North over its nuclear and missile programmes has launched official activities. The North's threat came as the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT), established by South...

Dhaka: In Bangladesh, students took out a protest march outraged by the interim government's failure to stop the rising incidents of sexual violence against women and children in recent days. The protests occurred Sunday at many prominent educational institutions in Dhaka such as Jagannath University,...

Wellington: New Zealand Defence Minister Judith Collins Monday alerted Australia that the Chinese vessels near its region are carrying weapons that could make their way to Australia. Collins warned that the Chinese naval task group conducting military exercises in the Tasman Sea is "extremely capable",...

Kinshasa: The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi announced sweeping changes, including forming a "government of national unity" to prevent the security crisis in the eastern part of the country from spiralling into a broader regional war. "The President of...

New York: US domestic intelligence head Kash Patel and other top government officials in sensitive areas are defying Elon Musk, telling employees to ignore the billionaire businessman's order to send five bullet-pointed responses about their work the previous week or be fired. Musk set a...

Washington: The Trump administration said Sunday that it was placing all but a fraction of staffers at the US Agency for International Development on leave worldwide and eliminating at least 1,600 US-based jobs. The move was the latest and one of the biggest steps yet...

Berlin: German Opposition leader Friedrich Merz's conservatives were on course for a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while Alternative for Germany nearly doubled its support, the strongest showing for a far-right party since World War II, projections showed. Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat...

Berlin: Exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz's conservatives leading in Germany's national election. They indicate that Alternative for Germany is heading for the strongest showing for a far-right party since World War II. The exit polls for ARD and ZDF public television show Chancellor...

New York: An American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi has been diverted to Rome, according to information on a flight tracking website. Italy's ANSA news agency said that the diversion was caused by an "alleged bomb threat". American Airlines flight AA292 departed...

Kyiv: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday he would be ready to give up the presidency if doing so would achieve a lasting peace for his country under the security umbrella of the NATO military alliance. Speaking at a forum of government officials in Kyiv...