International

13-09-2026 NEW YORK: The head of AI Company Anthropic has called for the pace of development of artificial intelligence models to slow down and to be closely monitored. Dario Amodei wrote in an online essay that developing AI was not in question, but that the risks associated with it were …

US and Iran trade retaliatory attacks on ships 06-09-2026 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN/ DUBAI: The US and Iran traded retaliatory attacks on ships on Saturday, in the latest round of strikes since fighting flared up a week ago following a month of relative calm. The US military said it had “permanently disabled” …

06-09-2026 JAKARTA: More than 150,000 passengers have been left stranded after a volcanic eruption forced Indonesian authorities to temporarily suspend operations at six airports. Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport was the first to be closed on Sunday morning after ash from Anak Krakatau was detected in airspace near the airport. Transport …

06-09-2026 CARIO: An Egyptian court sentenced a well-known television presenter and 11 others to death for manufacturing and trafficking narcotics in a sprawling drug case, official media reported. The presenter, Sarah Khalifa, 39, is best known for her program Mission Impossible, which dealt with issues concerning security and crime. The …

03-09-2026 KATHMANDU/ BEIJING: Nepal will have to rebuild around 20,000 houses in flood-ravaged areas, authorities said on Thursday, as rescuers continued to search for workers trapped in tunnels linked to hydropower projects and thousands remain ‌missing after last week’s catastrophe. A glacier collapse on August 26 sent a deluge of …

03-09-2026 CAIRO/ WASHINGTON: The sudden recent escalation of the Iran war has cast renewed attention on its civilian toll after Iran reported 18 dead in the last US assault, including four killed and dozens wounded at a wedding. Iran’s health minister said 18 people were killed ‌and 108 wounded in …

03-09-2026 MADRID: More than 80 people, including a baby, are feared to have died in a boat which was adrift in the Atlantic Ocean for 27 days. Spanish Maritime Rescue teams located the vessel some 65 nautical miles southwest of Gran Canaria’s coastal town of Arguineguín on Wednesday and found …

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday said that a Hindu who believes India should have no Muslims isn’t truly a Hindu. New York: (Abbas Ali Jaffri- PMI USA) RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday urged the Indian diaspora in the US and elsewhere to remain “loyal” to …

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 …