International

28-02-2026 KATHMANDU: An order allowing the use of lethal fire against thousands of young, unarmed protesters in Nepal was issued by the country’s former police chief, a BBC investigation reveals. Among the 19 people killed in the capital, Kathmandu, on 8 September last year was a teenager in school uniform, …

28-02-2026 GENEVA: The US and Iranian officials are meeting in Geneva for a third round of indirect talks seen as crucial to averting conflict, with President Donald Trump threatening to strike Iran if a nuclear deal is not reached. The discussions come amid the largest US military build-up in the …

28-02-2026 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has approved the first credits to be issued under a carbon market established by the Paris climate accord, aimed at reducing emissions, a mechanism that has faced scrutiny over greenwashing concerns. The UN-run market allows companies and countries to offset their excess emissions by …

28-02-2026 NEW DELHI/ JERUSALEM: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Israel on Wednesday for a two-day visit that both countries have cast as a chance to deepen relations, as regional concerns mount over the risk of military conflict between the United States and Iran. In an address to the …

28-02-2026 JERUSALEM/ DAMASCUS: Dozens of Israeli military vehicles have staged an incursion into Syria’s southwestern Quneitra province in the occupied Golan Heights, local media reported, in yet another breach of the country’s sovereignty. Al-Ikhbariah TV said on Wednesday that a convoy of 30 vehicles entered the eastern Tel al-Ahmar area …

28-02-2026 WASHINGTON: Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are set to appear before the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into the network of influence and crime run by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Both depositions are planned to take place in …

27-02-2026 By SAJ Jafri ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Kabul and two other Afghan provinces early Friday, Afghanistan’s government spokesperson said, hours after Afghanistan launched a cross-border attack on Pakistan in the latest escalation of violence between the neighboring countries that made a Qatar-mediated ceasefire appear increasingly shaky. …

27-02-2026 NEW YORK: In 2008, after years of allegations from teenage girls who said they had been abused inside the property, Jeffrey Epstein secured what was later described as one of the most extraordinary plea deals in modern US legal history. He pleaded guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution …

27-02-2026 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s criminal investigators arrested the country’s former intelligence chief on Wednesday (Feb 25) in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people, including 45 foreigners. Police said retired Major General Suresh Sallay was taken into custody at dawn in a suburb of the capital, …

27-02-2026 NAYPYIDAW: A military air strike by the Myanmar military in Rakhine state has killed and injured dozens people, local media reported, in the latest civil war carnage weeks after a military-backed governing party election win was dismissed as a “sham” by international observers. Women and children were among those …