International

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 …

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 …