BEIJING/MANILA: China again asked the Philippines to tow away a grounded warship - a World War Two-era vessel now used as a military outpost - from a disputed shoal on Tuesday, after Manila rejected Beijing's earlier demand. Tensions have soared between the two neighbours over the
JEDDAH: As the recently-held Jeddah talks regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict concluded in Saudi Arabia, a senior Ukrainian official termed the meeting a "huge blow" to Moscow, adding that the participants of the talks have agreed to conduct another round of political advisers within around six
MOSCOW: As the race to conquer space and colonise solar system planets, moons, and exoplanets is intensifying with every passing day, Russia is all set to launch its first lunar mission in 47 years — weeks after India launched its lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 towards Earth’s
NEW DELHI: India Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to face a heated debate over silence on the deadly violence in the remote state of Manipur, during the ongoing session in the Lok Sabha today (Tuesday), local media reported. Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi initiated a debate
GENEVA: The World Health Organization flagged a batch of contaminated common cold syrup it found in Iraq that was manufactured by an Indian company. The United Nations agency in its medical products alert said the batch of the syrup, branded Cold Out, had a higher than
NEW DELHI: Raziyah Sultan, the daughter of illegally detained Hurriyat leader Muhammad Yasin Malik, has appealed the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, to avert her father possible murder in cold blood, as Delhi court would hear his capital punishment case today (Tuesday). Raziyah Sultana along
ISLAMABAD: Days after India blamed Pakistan for not creating a conducive environment for talks, the Foreign Office, in its rejoinder has put the onus on New Delhi for creating an environment for dialogue and peace in the region. Addressing the weekly press briefing, Foreign Office Spokesperson
PORTLAND: Britain on Monday began housing migrants on board a barge docked off the southwest English coast, in its latest controversial immigration policy that has drawn heavy criticism from locals and rights campaigners. The “Bibby Stockholm,” which has been moored for weeks in Portland on the
NIAMEY: Niger’s mutinous soldiers closed the country’s airspace and accused foreign powers of preparing an attack, as the junta defied a deadline to reinstate the ousted president. State television announced the move Sunday night, hours before the deadline set by West African regional bloc ECOWAS, which
TOKYO, JAPAN: Japan marked the 78th anniversary of the US atomic bombing on Hiroshima, where its mayor urged the abolition of nuclear weapons and called the Group of Seven leaders' notion of nuclear deterrence a "folly". The day to commemorate the victims of the world's first