International

Kathmandu: Balendra Shah, the parliamentary party leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of Nepal. President Ram Chandra Poudel Friday appointed former Kathmandu Metropolitan City mayor Shah—popularly known as Balen—to the post as per Article 76(1) of...

Paris: The West Asia crisis and its consequences figured prominently during a conversation between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Canadian counterpart Anita Anand on the margins of a G7 meeting in France. Jaishankar arrived here Thursday for the G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting. On...

New York: With the world in the throes of an energy crisis from the partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump warned Thursday that time was running out for Tehran to “get serious” about a deal.​ Iran responded to the United States'...

Kabul: Dozens of people were buried in a Kabul cemetery Thursday in the second mass funeral of victims killed in an airstrike that hit a drug rehabilitation centre in the Afghan capital earlier this month. Bulldozers opened a large pit into which individual graves were...

Jerusalem: Israel Thursday claimed to have eliminated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy chief Alireza Tangsiri, responsible for "leading the closure of the Strait of Hormuz." In a short video message, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel continues to strike Iran "with full...

Dhaka: At least 24 people were killed, and several others remain missing after a bus plunged into a river in Bangladesh while attempting to board a transport ferry, officials said Thursday. The accident occurred in the southwestern district of Rajbari at the Dauladia terminal when...

Mumbai: Global oil prices jumped to cross $100 per barrel Thursday after Iran said it was not engaged in direct negotiations with the US to end the war. Brent crude futures rose 1.21 per cent to $103.46 per barrel while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI)...

Dubai: Iran Wednesday dismissed an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East, issuing its own counterproposal instead, as it launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries. Two officials from Pakistan described the 15-point US proposal broadly, saying it addressed sanctions...

Beirut: Israeli strikes have killed 1,094 people in Lebanon since war began, the Lebanese Health Ministry said Wednesday. A total of 22 people had been killed over the past 24 hours. At least 121 children and 81 women were among the dead in Lebanon, the...

Dubai: Iran Wednesday dismissed an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East and launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries, including an assault that sparked a huge fire at Kuwait International Airport. Iran's defiance came as Israel launched airstrikes on...