International

New York: US President Donald Trump has again credited himself for ending the conflict between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan, as he asserted that Norway controls the Nobel Peace Prize, an honour he claims he deserves for ending eight wars and saving millions of lives....

New Delhi: India and the European Union are on the cusp of a "historic trade agreement" that would create a market comprising two billion people accounting for almost a quarter of the global GDP, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday. President of...

Kathmandu: India handed over more than 60 double-cab pickup vehicles and other supplies to Nepal to help prepare for the elections scheduled for March 5. This marks the first tranche of election-related assistance from India, handed over to Nepal’s Home Minister Om Prakash Aryal at...

Davos: The European Union's top official Tuesday called into question US President Donald Trump's trustworthiness, saying that he had agreed last year not to impose more tariffs on members of the bloc. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called Trump's planned new tariffs over...

Beijing: China Tuesday said it has received an invitation from the US to join President Donald Trump's Board of Peace for Gaza, but declined to say whether it will join the initiative. China has received the US' invitation, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said when...

Kathmandu: Nepal may no longer see former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba contest parliamentary elections again as his secretariat announced Tuesday that he will not run in the upcoming House of Representatives election scheduled for March 5. Bhanu Deuba, Deuba's chief Personal Secretary, wrote on...

Washington: US President Donald Trump Tuesday shared screenshots of what seemed to be private text messages from his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Secretary General Mark Rutte. According to the message, Macron told Trump that he did not understand what...

Nuuk: US President Donald Trump linked his aggressive stance on Greenland to last year's decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, telling Norway's prime minister that he no longer felt "an obligation to think purely of Peace," in a text message released Monday....

Dubai: A crackdown on demonstrators taking part in nationwide protests in Iran killed at least 4,029 people, activists said Tuesday. The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency offered the toll, saying more than 26,000 people have been detained in the crackdown as well. It said...

Washington: A US senator has introduced a bill that would make it easier for the administration to revoke the citizenship of naturalised Americans who commit serious crimes, large-scale fraud, or have links to terrorist organisations. Republican Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri said the legislation is...