International

Moscow: Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin called Sunday a bomb attack on a restaurant in the capital the day before a brutal terrorist act, but did not say who was responsible. The blast Saturday evening at the Balzi Rossi, an upscale Italian establishment in central Moscow,...

Tel Aviv: Israel has shared serious security concerns with the White House regarding the proposed disarmament deal with Hamas, an Israeli official told The Associated Press Sunday in some of the first public comments since US President Donald Trump announced the agreement earlier this week....

Tehran: Iran's Acting Defence Minister Seyed Majid Ebn Al-Reza said Sunday that Tehran perceives every "enemy" threat as "real and noteworthy," rejecting any characterisation of them as mere psychological warfare. "We will neither be surprised nor remain passive. We use threats as a basis to...

Surabaya (Indonesia):  An Indonesian ferry carrying 271 people caught fire in waters off the main island of Java Sunday, leaving at least five people dead and dozens missing as rescuers and passing vessels evacuated hundreds from the burning ship, officials said. The Mutiara Sentosa 2...

Kathmandu: Nepalese authorities Sunday relaxed the curfew imposed in various parts of Madhesh and Koshi provinces as the security situation improved days after communal violence rocked the region. Three people have been killed in communal violence in Nepal that started after clashes erupted in Sunsari...

Lacanau (France): France's vast wildfire near Bordeaux, which scorched an area four times the size of Paris and forced 224,000 people to evacuate, remained contained Sunday but was still burning. Hundreds of kilometres (miles) away, a newer blaze in Provence had stopped advancing overnight but...

Washington: US President Donald Trump Sunday said the United States had agreed to hold off a planned military attack on Iran after Tehran and several Middle Eastern countries requested a pause, claiming that the framework of a potential agreement had been reached. In a post...

Tokyo: The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has risen to 38, the prefectural government said Sunday. At a disaster response headquarters meeting held Sunday morning, Kumamoto Prefecture Government officials announced that 38 people had died, including those whose deaths...

Kathmandu: "Broad Peak, I ask for nothing but safe passage up and back down. I take zero mountains for granted. Not one," Nirmal Purja posted on his X account three days before he went missing on the 8,051-metre peak in the Karakoram Range. But it...

Dhaka: US Special Envoy for South and Central Asia Sergio Gor Saturday discussed bilateral ties, trade and investment with Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman and called on Dhaka to join the US-led Pax Silica initiative, local media reported. In a meeting with PM Rahman at...