International

Colombo: Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence imposed on a Sri Lankan migrant worker over a comment he made on Facebook, Sri Lanka's deputy foreign minister said Wednesday. Anojan Sivarasa, 27, was sentenced to death in September after being convicted of blasphemy...

New Delhi: Observing that the right to seek compensation has to be enforced, the Supreme Court Wednesday asked the Ministry of External Affairs to consider issuing a public notice inviting families of Indians who have died while fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war to seek assistance...

Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced outrage Wednesday over Russia's continuing aerial bombardment of Ukraine's energy infrastructure in apparent defiance of US President Donald Trump's demand for a ceasefire. Moscow's forces pounded Ukraine's power grid, as well as oil and gas facilities, for the third...

London: A section of diaspora groups in the UK organised an "Emergency Protest" outside the High Commission of India in London in solidarity with the protests in New Delhi. Convened by the South Asia Solidarity Group, Cambridge South Asian Forum Against Hindutva, Indian Workers' Association...

Taipei: Taiwan plans to buy 6 million metric tonnes of liquefied natural gas annually from a US project once extraction starts and could invest up to USD 4.4 billion in it, its Economic Affairs Ministry said Wednesday, in what US President Donald Trump touted as...

Cairo: Residents in Saudi Arabia's capital say they have heard new explosions in Riyadh. The residents spoke on condition of anonymity for their safety. One lives in northern Riyadh, near King Khalid International Airport. The source of explosions wasn't immediately clear. The Saudi civil defence...

New Delhi: India and the US are continuing to engage to iron out differences on the proposed trade deal, and negotiations are heading towards a "landing point," External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said, while noting that the core fundamentals of the bilateral strategic partnership...

Los Angeles: The Reality star Khloe Kardashian has shared that she hasn’t been intimate in over 4 years. The 42-year-old reality star has been single for almost 4 years now. She split from Tristan Thompson, the father of her two children, in 2022, and shared...

Washington: US President Donald Trump promised every adult American citizen $5,000 if Republicans keep control of both chambers of Congress, telling a midterm rally in Wasilla, Alaska, that tariff revenue would pay for it. "If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate, I'm...

New Delhi/Dhaka: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's decision to skip the BRICS summit in India was "immature" and damaged Bangladesh's national interest, former PM Sheikh Hasina has said, warning that foreign policy driven by personal reactions or short-term political calculations is inherently counterproductive. Hasina said Bangladesh's...