International

Tokyo: Japan is assessing the deployment of long-range missiles on the southwestern island of Kyushu aimed at bolstering the security of the country's southwestern Nansei island chain. This move is strategically important for the island chain's proximity to Taiwan, amid growing fears that the self-ruled...

Cairo: Hamas said Saturday it will only release an American-Israeli and the bodies of four other hostages if Israel implements their ceasefire agreement, calling it an “exceptional deal” aimed at getting the truce back on track. Israeli airstrikes meanwhile killed nine people in the Gaza...

Kimbirila-Nord: With its tomato patches and grazing cattle, the Ivory Coast village of Kimbirila-Nord hardly looks like a front line of the global fight against extremism. But after jihadis attacked a nearby community in Mali five years ago and set up a base in a...

Cape Canaveral: Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts. The four newcomers — representing the US, Japan and Russia — will spend the next few days...

Kyiv: Russia and Ukraine traded heavy aerial blows overnight, with both sides Saturday reporting more than 100 enemy drones over their respective territories. The attacks came less than 24 hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss details of...

Gaza: The Palestinian Ministry of National Economy issued an urgent appeal to the United Nations and the international community, calling for pressure on the Israeli government to immediately stop using starvation and deprivation as tools of war against the Gaza Strip. "We remind the entire...

Washington: President Donald Trump's administration will pay El Salvador USD 6 million to imprison for one year about 300 alleged members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, in one of the first instances of the Central American country taking migrants from the United States....

West Palm Beach: The Houthi rebel-run Health Ministry says the death toll from US strikes on Yemen has climbed to 31, including women and children. Anees al-Asbahi, a spokesperson for the ministry, said Sunday that another 101 people were wounded in the overnight strikes. President...

Washington: A federal judge Saturday barred the administration of President Donald Trump from deportations under an 18th-century law that Trump invoked just hours earlier, asserting the United States was being invaded by a Venezuelan gang and that he had new powers to remove its members...

West Palm Beach: President Donald Trump said he ordered a series of airstrikes on Yemen's capital, Sanaa, Saturday, promising to use overwhelming lethal force until Iranian-backed Houthi rebels cease their attacks on shipping along a vital maritime corridor. The Houthis said nine civilians were killed....