International

28-03-2026 BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has called for national unity as Israel continues its military assault on Lebanon, vowing to continue fighting “without limits” as Israeli aerial and ground attacks have killed more than 1,000 people across the country. In a statement on Wednesday, Qassem said the country faced …

28-03-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: An Indian man whose life support was removed after the Supreme Court accepted his parents’ plea to do so has died. Harish Rana’s case is the first instance of court-approved passive euthanasia, the act of withdrawing or withholding life-sustaining treatment in India. Rana, 31, died …

28-03-2026 GAZA STRIP/ WEST BANK: “This assault wasn’t just meant to burn the houses but also to kill, to kill women and children,” says Barhan Omar, standing in the charred ruins of his family’s large villa, which Israeli settlers attacked on Sunday. “They came in big numbers. This was organized …

28-03-2026 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Iran rejected a US ceasefire offer and has laid out its own list of conditions for ending the war, Iranian state media reported Wednesday. State broadcaster Press TV, citing a senior political-security official with knowledge of the details of the proposal, reported that Iran’s five-point counteroffer would …

28-03-2026 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SINGAPORE: India has pushed back by a year its plan for coal-fired power plants to lower output ‌when solar generation is high, as regulators work out how to compensate for the higher costs of retrofitting entailed, documents reviewed by Reuters show. Analysts say …

28-03-2026 NEW YORK: Society should respect plumbing and electrician careers as artificial intelligence (AI) replaces some office jobs, the boss of US financial giant BlackRock has told media. Larry Fink, who leads the world’s largest asset manager, says the US “overdid” the focus on young people going to university and …

28-03-2026 NAIROBI: About 32 bodies, mostly children, have been dug up from a mass grave in the western Kenyan town of Kericho as investigations continue into the shocking discovery. The exhumation was done after the police obtained a court order to retrieve 14 bodies that were initially believed to have …

27-03-2026 WASHINGTON: A special counsel investigation that began in 2022 of Kash Patel, who is ​now the FBI director but was then a private citizen, included demands for more than two years of phone records, text messages and financial ‌information, according to two grand jury subpoenas and nondisclosure orders viewed …

27-03-2026 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s prime minister said on Tuesday he was willing to host talks between the US and Iran on ending the war in the Gulf, a day after President Donald Trump postponed threats to bomb Iranian power plants, saying there had been “productive” talks. …

27-03-2026 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MOSCOW: The ‌war in Iran and the blockage of the strategic Strait of Hormuz are likely to halve this month’s imports of liquefied petroleum gas by India, its number-two importer, according to traders and ship-tracking data. India covers around 60% of its LPG …