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Tel Aviv: Israel's parliament Monday passed its annual budget in a marathon overnight session, ensuring that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government can complete its term until the fall. Israel needed to pass a budget before April 1 to avoid triggering early elections. Netanyahu still reserves...

Beijing: China's flag carrier resumed direct flights between Beijing and North Korea's capital of Pyongyang Monday not long after the restoration of passenger train services between the capitals. The Air China flight was welcomed by the Chinese ambassador to North Korea, Wang Yajun, and other...

Dubai: An Indian national has been killed in Kuwait in Iranian strikes on a power and water desalination plant, taking the total number of Indian fatalities from the ongoing conflict in West Asia to eight since it began a month back. Kuwait's Ministry of Electricity,...

Cairo: An attack by Sudanese paramilitaries and their allied rebels in the central region of Kordofan killed at least 14 people, including five children and two women, a medical group said Sunday, in the latest deadly assault of the Sudan war. The Rapid Support Forces...

Peshawar: Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi Sunday alleged that a recent speech by Kasim Khan, son of former prime minister Imran Khan, was being deliberately misrepresented by the government in an attempt to mislead the public. Addressing a press conference, Afridi said that...

London: An Indian-origin man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after seven people were seriously injured when a car drove into pedestrians in England, police said Sunday. The incident occurred Saturday at 930 pm in a city centre street, Friar Gate, Derby, after...

New Delhi: The India-Israel cooperation in agriculture has received a huge push with the announcement, during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Jerusalem last month, of setting up more Centres of Excellence as high-tech agricultural hubs and taking these further to the village level to...

Islamabad: Former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief secretary Arbab Shehzad Khan said that the Pakistan-Afghanistan peace jirga will be held in Peshawar March 31 to urge the leadership of the two nations to ease tensions and work towards peace, local media reported Sunday. While addressing a press...

Dubai: Iranian forces are waiting for the arrival of American troops on the ground to set them on fire and punish their regional partners forever, the country's parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said Sunday. Our firing continues. Our missiles are in place. Our determination and...

Kathmandu: Nepal's former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli was remanded in judicial custody for five days by the Kathmandu District Court Sunday, even as protests continue to erupt in various parts of the country over the arrests. Oli and former home minister Ramesh Lekhak were...