International

16-08-2026 NEW YORK/ TEHRAN: US President Donald Trump urged Americans to accept slightly higher gasoline prices as ‌the cost of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and said he would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory. The comments underscore the growing political risk for Trump as …

16-08-2026 DOHA/ TEHRAN: Iran has called for the release of three Iranian pilots it said were captured by Qatar after two fighter jets were hit by air defences during a military operation at the start of the US-Iran war. In a letter to the head of the International Committee of …

16-08-2026 HARARE: Twenty-two more bodies have been recovered after a boat accident in Zimbabwe, taking the death toll to 68, police said on Saturday. The ferry capsized on Tuesday on Lake Kariba, on the border with Zambia. An investigation has suggested it was overloaded when it turned over during heavy …

16-08-2026 ETTRICK, VIRGINIA: Multiple people were injured in a shooting at Virginia State University (VSU), police said on Saturday morning, with several suspects still at large. The campus, about 20 miles (32km) south of Richmond, was temporarily put on lockdown as police released initial details about the shooting. “A shooting …

15-08-2026 BEIRUT: An Israeli air strike has killed seven people in southern Lebanon, the nation’s prime minister has said, in one of the deadliest attacks since an agreement aimed at reducing hostilities was announced in June. The strike hit a house on the outskirts of Ansar at about 04:30 (01:30 …

15-08-2026 SYDNEY: Mourners gathered in Australia’s Alice Springs on Saturday to bid farewell to a five-year-old Indigenous ‌girl whose death in April shocked the nation and sparked violent clashes in the outback town. The killing of Kumanjayi Little Baby, the name by which the ​victim is known according to Indigenous …

15-08-2026 JAKARTA: At least 38 people have been killed after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia early on Saturday, the nation’s disaster mitigation agency has said. The official death toll has been rising as a search and rescue operation gets under way. The BNPB agency said several people had been injured …

15-08-2026 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD: Website of Press Media of India (PMI) has restored in Pakistan after 25 days unofficial ban, a source related to foreign ministry told PMI on anonymity condition. The website https://pressmediaofindia.com/ was either banned officially or some other reasons by unknown hackers. Replying to a question, …

TEHRAN, August 9: Iran has warned that the Strait of Hormuz will not be fully reopened until the United States changes its policies and meets a series of demands issued by Tehran. Iranian forces on Saturday targeted a vessel owned by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) in the …

21-07-2026 HOUSTON: Wildfire smoke blanketed the eastern ​US from the Great Lakes to Washington, DC on Friday, floodwaters tore through Texas’s Hill Country for a third day and new fires erupted in the Pacific Northwest overnight, with 68 large ‌blazes now burning in 15 states. Millions of Americans faced hazardous …