International

Iranian authorities have not confirmed his death Iran’s Tasnim and Mehr news agencies report that Khamenei remains ‘steadfast and firm in commanding the field’. United States President Donald Trump says Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead after Israeli-US attacks on Iran. Trump wrote in a post on his …

28-02-2026 TEHRAN/ JERUSALEM/ WASHINTON/ DUBAI/ MANAMA/ DOHA: The United States and Israel have launched an attack on Iran, with explosions heard and seen across Tehran and in other parts of the country, as apparent retaliatory explosions are hitting northern Israel and multiple Gulf Arab states. Several missiles have struck University …

28-02-2026 VICTORIA CITY: Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy media tycoon, has won an appeal against a fraud conviction in 2022, which had seen him sentenced to nearly six years in jail. On Thursday, Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of Lai and another defendant who had been accused …

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. …