International

Hong Kong: China's economy expanded at the slowest annual pace in a year in July- September, growing 4.8 per cent, weighed down by trade tensions with the United States and slack domestic demand. The July-September data was the weakest pace of growth since the third...

Palm Beach: President Donald Trump said Sunday he would slash US funding to Colombia because the country's leader “does nothing to stop” drug production. In a social media post, Trump referred to Colombian President Gustavo Petro as “an illegal drug dealer” who is “low rated...

Paris: A theft occurred at the Louvre Sunday, France's culture minister said, as the museum closed for the day while authorities investigate. “A robbery took place this morning at the opening of the Louvre Museum,” Rachida Dati wrote on X. The Louvre said it would...

Tel Aviv: Israel's military said it struck multiple targets Sunday in Gaza, using aircraft and artillery, after it said Hamas militants shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area still under Israeli control, the first major test of the ceasefire reached over a week...

Beijing: China Sunday launched a Pakistani remote sensing satellite along with two of its own onboard a single rocket, further deepening space cooperation between the two all-weather allies. A Lijian-1 Y8 carrier rocket carrying three satellites -- Pakistan remote-sensing satellite (PRSS-2), AIRSAT 03 and 04...

Islamabad: Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire and setting up of "mechanisms" to ensure lasting peace after days of violent clashes along the border that left several soldiers, civilians, and terrorists dead on both sides, officials said Sunday. The breakthrough came following...

Washington: India's Ambassador to the United States, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, has said that India's artificial intelligence (AI) strategy is centred on promoting the development, diffusion and adoption of the technology across its entire ecosystem. In a social media post on Saturday, the envoy stated that...

Washington: The US Department of State said it has received credible reports suggesting Hamas is planning an imminent attack against Palestinian civilians. The United States has alerted the guarantor nations of the Gaza peace agreement to those reports, it said in a statement Saturday. Such...

Tel Aviv: More than 68,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza's Health Ministry said Saturday. The ministry said the number of dead has climbed since the ceasefire went into effect more than a week ago. The majority of the newly counted dead...

Islamabad: In a sharp escalation of rhetoric, Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir Saturday warned India of a ‘decisive response’ to even a minor provocation, saying there is no space for war in a "nuclearised environment”. Munir was addressing a graduation ceremony of...