International

Dhaka: The Bangladesh interim government has banned Bangladesh Chatra League, the student organisation of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's party Awami League, after a demand by a student group that led the July-August uprising under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009. The government, under the powers...

Beirut: Hashem Safieddine, a strongman who rose through the ranks of the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah over decades to become the second-most powerful person within the organisation, has died. Safieddine, who was about 60, was killed in early October in a series of Israeli...

Kazan/Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed "in principle” to the suggestions made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during their meeting here Wednesday to improve India-China relations, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. In his meeting with Modi on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS Summit in...

New Delhi: Spanish President Pedro Sanchez will be on an official visit to India from October 27-29 during which he will hold delegation level talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give a boost to bilateral ties, the Ministry of External Affairs announced Wednesday. "This...

Washington: The White House said Wednesday that Group of Seven allies are moving forward with providing Ukraine with $50 billion in loans for Ukraine backed by frozen Russian assets. Leaders of the wealthy democracies agreed earlier this year to engineer the mammoth loan to help...

Kazan: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday renewed his call for dialogue and diplomacy as being the only way forward to resolve conflicts, in an unambiguous message to press for the resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war through peaceful negotiations. In his address at the 16th BRICS...

Seoul: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said there is evidence that North Korea has sent troops to Russia Monday, and South Korea's spy chief told lawmakers that 3,000 North Korean troops are in the country receiving training on drones and other equipment before being deployed...

Kazan: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held bilateral talks Wednesday on the margins of the BRICS Summit in Russia, in their first structured meeting in the last five years. The meeting took place two days after India and China firmed up...

Kazan: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday strongly pitched for ‘single-minded’ focus and ‘firm support’ of all in combating terrorism, asserting that there is no place for "double standards" to deal with the challenge. In an address at the 16th BRICS Summit here, Modi also underlined...

Beirut: Israel said Tuesday that one of its airstrikes outside Beirut earlier this month killed a Hezbollah official widely expected to replace the militant group's longtime leader, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike last month. There was no immediate confirmation from Hezbollah about the...