International

Chicago: It's official Skydance-owned Paramount has closed its USD 81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The companies completed the deal Tuesday, ushering in a new Hollywood giant with the now shorter Skydance nametag. The merger brings two of America's oldest moviemaking studios together. And...

Karachi: More than a month after the alleged abduction, forcible conversion and marriage of two Hindu girls, police in Pakistan's Sindh province registered an FIR against two accused Tuesday. The accused allegedly abducted the sisters August 29 from near their home in the Tando Allahyar...

Kyiv: Russian air defences intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones overnight over multiple regions of the country, as well as the occupied Crimean Peninsula and the Sea of Azov, the Defence Ministry in Moscow said Tuesday. Unconfirmed media reports said a major fuel depot in the...

Stockholm: Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and his discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award in Stockholm. The prize money this year is 12...

Dhaka: Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, was ranked first among the world's most polluted cities Tuesday, with an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 213 at 11:10 a.m. (local time), local media reported. According to the AQI scale, the air quality in Dhaka was labelled as "very unhealthy",...

Moscow: Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia of an 'unknown cause. Local state TV said the woman died last week. Russian authorities said they found no evidence that...

Paris: An Indian man has gone on trial in France, accused of leading an online group that coerced underage girls into sexual acts and self-harm, media reports said. The trial of 29-year-old Rohan Rane began Monday in Paris before a special criminal court and is...

Colombo: Eight Indian nationals have been arrested in Sri Lanka for allegedly engaging in illegal online gambling, police said Tuesday. The suspects, aged between 22 and 51, were arrested after a raid by the Colombo suburban Thalangama police Sunday after receiving a tip-off that an...

Islamabad: Pakistan and Turkiye have agreed to deploy their military forces in Saudi Arabia under the trilateral defence agreement between the three countries in the wake of Houthi attacks in the Gulf country. The three sides had convened an emergency meeting of the Strategic Political...

London: Bestselling British author Jeffrey Archer, whose career as a politician was derailed by a perjury conviction, has died. He was 86. Archer died "suddenly and peacefully" at his home Monday, a day before the global release of his final novel, "Adam and Eve," publisher...