International

Manila: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced on Wednesday that he will be meeting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio July 23, on the sidelines of the ongoing multilateral Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) events in the Philippines. "The meeting has already been agreed...

Seoul: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will embark on a five-nation trip this week that will also take him to three South American nations for talks with their leaders, the presidential office said Wednesday. The President will depart Friday first for San Francisco, where...

Washington: US President Donald Trump Wednesday announced plans to onshore drug manufacturing by keeping tariffs on imported generic medicines at zero per cent for two years before raising them to 100 per cent in August 2028 and 200 per cent thereafter -- a move that...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Manila Wednesday to discuss priority areas, including trade, tariffs, energy, defence, critical minerals, and artificial intelligence. Jaishankar and Rubio are also understood to have exchanged views on the West...

New York: New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said late Tuesday that the city would not be able to execute an arrest warrant issued by the world's top war-crimes court for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, but urged the federal government to do so. In the video, Mamdani...

Washington: US President Donald Trump Tuesday gave a dim view on possible talks with Iran to end the war. "I will tell you, they want to desperately meet. And until they're ready to meet in a meaningful way, we have no interest in meeting," Trump...

Islamabad: A high-level Iranian delegation led by Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni is in Pakistan to hold talks with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Defence Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir, amid an ongoing escalation with the US. Momeni, who arrived in Pakistan Monday evening...

Kabul: At least 20 people have been killed and over 80 others injured due to floods in Parun city of Afghanistan's Nuristan province, local media reported Tuesday. Highlighting a statement released by Taliban authorities, Afghanistan's Khaama Press news agency reported that more than 100 people...

Islamabad: An Iranian official began meetings Tuesday with mediators in Pakistan as diplomats sought to salvage the collapsed interim deal between Iran and the United States, even as both countries continued to launch attacks for a 10th day of renewed fighting. The visit by Iran's...

Manila: The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Tuesday dismissed the China Coast Guard's (CCG) allegation that Philippine boats had deliberately rammed one of its patrol vessels near the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea, describing the claims as "false and misleading". The...