International

Bangkok: A little more than a year ago, the government's military was on the back foot in Myanmar's civil war, pushed out of great swaths of the country's north by an alliance of seasoned militias, and forced into defensive action around the rest of the...

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that Iran was "dying to make a deal" to end the now paused war and virtually ruled out resuming air strikes. Trump's remarks during a media interaction at the Oval Office Thursday afternoon came at a time when...

Washington: United President Donald Trump Thursday, took another dig at German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, asking the European leader to fix his broken country and spend less time concerning himself with the Iran war. The president is continuing to pillory German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who's been...

Dubai: Iran's supreme leader said Thursday that the Islamic Republic will protect its "nuclear and missile capabilities" as a national asset, likely seeking to draw a hard line as US President Donald Trump presses for a wider deal to cement the war's shaky three-week ceasefire....

New York: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he would encourage King Charles III to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond. "If I was to speak to the King separately from that, I would probably encourage him to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond," Mamdani said at a...

Dubai: Iran's supreme leader said Thursday that the Islamic Republic will protect its "nuclear and missile capabilities" as a national asset, even as US President Donald Trump tries to get a deal on those issues. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei spoke in a written statement read aloud...

Singapore: An Indian-origin woman was among three Singaporean activists, fined USD 2,341 each Thursday for organising a procession outside the Presidential Palace to show solidarity with Palestine, local media reported. The High Court overturned the acquittal of the three women, Malay-origin Mossammad Sobikun Nahar, 26,...

Islamabad: A Pakistani high court is scheduled to hear a plea filed by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, Thursday, challenging their convictions in the Al Qadir Trust case. An Islamabad accountability court in January last year sentenced 73-year-old Khan...

Washington: President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a phone call Wednesday, renewed his offer for Russia to serve as a third country that could deal with Iran's 970 pounds of enriched uranium that the US leader is demanding Tehran must surrender. "He...

Kathmandu: Nepal's state-owned national flag carrier Thursday apologised for showing India's Jammu and Kashmir as part of Pakistan in its network map shared on social media a day before, terming it an error. Nepal Airlines said the map contained significant cartographic inaccuracies regarding international boundaries...