07-09-2025 PYONGYANG: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Chinese President Xi Jinping that North Korea will support China in protecting its sovereignty, territory and development interests, as the pair met just a day after an unprecedented show of unity with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing. The bilateral meeting …

07-09-2025 GAZA STRIP: The Israeli military’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza City is reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble, forcing residents to flee in panic, with nowhere safe in the enclave, which has been under unrelenting bombardment for 23 months. Israel’s round-the-clock assault on what UNICEF has dubbed the “city of fear” …

Hyderabad, Sept 6 (Shoukat-PMI)– The famous Balapur Ganesh Shobha Yatra is progressing in a peaceful manner. The Ganesh idol has reached Tank Bund via Abids and Liberty crossroads amid a heavy turnout of devotees. South Zone DCP Sneha Mehra, IPS, personally supervised the immersion arrangements to ensure smooth conduct of …

06-09-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India will continue to buy Russian oil as it proves economical, its finance minister said yesterday, despite the Trump administration’s decision to impose heavy import tariffs on Indian goods due, in part, to its energy purchases from Moscow. As Europe and the US …

06-09-2025 JAKARTA: Indonesia’s protests which escalated following the killing of a delivery rider have sparked a drive among South East Asians to show their support through delivery apps. Some in neighboring Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand are using the popular Grab and Gojek apps to order food in Indonesia for …

06-09-2025 BEIJING: When Chinese leader Xi Jinping organized his first parade to mark the anniversary of the end of World War Two, in 2015, he placed his two predecessors by his side in a show of respect and continuity of leadership. Ten years on and having eliminated domestic opposition as …

06-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Heavy rain in the Himalayas continued to lash northern India and neighboring Pakistan on Thursday with flooding of homes and highways worsening as major rivers overflowed. Although weather officials in India forecast some respite from downpours later in the day, Pakistan has warned that …

06-09-2025 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump is to rebrand the US Department of Defense as the “Department of War”, according to the White House. The president will today sign an executive order allowing it to be used as a secondary title for the US government’s biggest organization It also means defence secretary …

06-09-2025 KABUL: A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Afghanistan’s remote south-eastern region on Thursday night, the third quake in six days, as the death toll from the first continued to rise. The shallow quake hit at 20:56 local time (15:36 GMT) and sent people in Nangarhar and Kunar provinces scampering out …

06-09-2025 BRAZZAVILLE: Dozens people have died in a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s health ministry has said. The presence of the virus had been confirmed in a 34-year-old pregnant woman who was admitted to hospital last month after showing symptoms that …