International

26-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A billionaire industrialist and a former Indian Air Force chief on Sunday became the latest prominent figures, including a judge and an ambassador, to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party in recent weeks as it seeks to widen its lead over the opposition. …

26-03-2024 LONDON: Britain’s King Charles is “frustrated” by the pace of his recuperation from cancer, his nephew Peter Phillips said on Sunday, becoming the first member of the royal family to speak in detail about how the monarch was faring. The insight into the king’s mindset comes after Kate, Britain’s …

26-03-2024 JERUSALEM: A member of Israel’s war cabinet said on Sunday he would quit the national emergency government should proposed legislation that continues to exempt ultra-Orthodox Jews from mandatory military service be passed into law. “The nation cannot accept it, the Knesset (parliament) must not vote for it, and my …

26-03-2024 MOSCOW: Russia has charged four men it says attacked a Moscow concert hall and killed at least 137 people. Three were marched blindfolded into a Moscow court while the fourth was in a wheelchair. All were charged with committing an act of terrorism. The Islamic State group, or IS, …

25-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s foreign exchange reserves rose for the fourth straight week to hit an all-time high of USD 642.292 billion in the week ending on March 15, as per the latest data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). During the week, the …

25-03-2024 KYIV/ MOSCOW: Multiple explosions have hit Kyiv and the whole of Ukraine has been placed on alert as Russia launched a wave of air strikes. The region of Lviv bordering Poland was also targeted and one of the cruise missiles entered Polish airspace, the country’s armed forces said. The …

25-03-2024 JERUSALEM/ CAIRO: The United States has made a “bridging proposal” for the number of jailed Palestinians to be released by Israel in exchange for every hostage freed by Hamas in any new Gaza truce, an Israeli official briefed on the Qatar-hosted talks said on Saturday. An Israeli delegation led …

25-03-2024 QUEENSLAND/ MELBOURNE: Outside an Australian community centre, local election candidates make last-ditch efforts to win over people who are filing into the makeshift polling station. Most voters are too pre-occupied trying to dodge the flyer-thrusting politicians to notice a clue that this is not your ordinary campaign for a …

25-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Famed Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk, on a hunger strike to bring autonomy to the Himalayan region of Ladakh, said on Saturday he was weak as his fast stretches into its 18th day but he would continue for three more days as planned …

25-03-2024 TEL AVIV: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel risked further global isolation if it went ahead with plans for a ground assault on the Palestinian city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Blinken met one to one with Netanyahu during a …