International

01-03-2026 COPENHAGEN: Denmark will hold a parliamentary election on March 24, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Thursday, seeking to capitalize on a surge in support for her defiant stance against US pressure over Greenland. Frederiksen has spent recent months rallying European leaders against President Donald Trump’s renewed interest in …

01-03-2026 KYIV/ MOSCOW: Images of debris from Russian strikes on Ukraine strongly indicate that Moscow has used a cruise missile whose development led Donald Trump to quit a landmark nuclear pact in his first term, two experts said; confirming earlier media reporting. The specialists based their analysis on images of …

01-03-2026 NEW YORK: Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a congressional committee on Thursday that she did not remember ever meeting the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and had no information to share about his criminal activities. “I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I never flew …

01-03-2026 JERUSALEM/ NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India and Israel will collaborate more closely on defence technology while pursuing a free trade agreement, as he wrapped up a controversial two-day visit. Modi and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu said at a joint news conference in Jerusalem on Thursday …

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 …