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Colombo: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake Sunday thanked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sending an oil shipment to ease the fuel supply disruptions in the Island nation caused by the West Asia conflict. A shipment of 38,000 MT of fuel, comprising 20,000 MT...

Kathmandu: Nepal police Sunday arrested former energy minister and Nepali Congress leader Deepak Khadka in connection with a money laundering case, local media reported. The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police took Khadka into custody Sunday morning, The Himalayan quoted CIB spokesperson Shiva Kumar...

Tehran: Iran Sunday accused the United States and Israel of deliberately targeting its academic institutions, alleging that strikes on universities such as Isfahan University of Technology and Tehran University of Science and Technology were part of a broader attempt to weaken the country's scientific and...

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed a test of a high-thrust, solid-fuel engine test and hailed it as a development to boost the country's strategic military capability, state media reported Sunday. The test likely indicates Kim is intent on enlarging and modernising an...

Dubai: Iranian-backed Houthi rebels entered the month-old war in the Middle East  Saturday, claiming two missile launches at Israel. About 2,500 US Marines arrived in the region. And Pakistan's government said that regional powers plan to meet Sunday to discuss how to end the fighting....

Beirut: An Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon Saturday killed three journalists who were covering the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, their TV stations said. Hezbollah's al-Manar TV said that its longtime correspondent Ali Shoeib was killed Saturday in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military said that it had...

Berlin: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has sharply criticised US President Donald Trump for his course of action in the Iran conflict, the German Press Agency reported. "What Trump is doing right now is not de-escalation and an attempt to reach a peaceful solution, but a...

Kathmandu: Nepalese political parties Saturday criticised the newly formed Balendra Shah government over the arrest of former Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli for the 2025 Gen Z protest crackdown. Oli and Former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak have been arrested on charges of their involvement...

Dubai: Iran-backed Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a missile attack on Israel. Brig Gen Yahya Saree, a military spokesman for the Houthis, issued a statement Saturday on the rebel group's Al-Masirah satellite television network. Israel's military had earlier said it had intercepted a missile....

Dubai: Five Indians were injured in the UAE by the fall of debris in the vicinity of the Khalifa Economic Zones Abu Dhabi (KEZAD) following interception of a ballistic missile by the country's air defence system, local media reported Saturday. The Abu Dhabi Media Office...