LOS ANGELES: Recent hostilities in the Red Sea have thrown global shippers of vital goods for a loop - but it is hardly the only issue that big carriers are facing as 2024 kicks off. Giants like Maersk say the industry, which handles 90% of global
NICOSIA, Cyprus: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres named a former Colombian foreign minister as his personal envoy to scope out the chances of reviving talks to resolve Cyprus’ ethnic divide, an issue that has defied international diplomacy for nearly five decades. María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar will work
NEW DELHI: Indian Navy commandos have boarded a hijacked Liberian-flagged vessel in the Arabian Sea and are now carrying out "sanitisation" operations, the navy said on Friday, without elaborating. An Indian Navy warship intercepted the MV Lila Norfolk on Friday afternoon, less than a day after
GAZA: Eleven-year-old Noor's left leg was almost entirely torn off when her home in Jabalia, Gaza was hit by an explosion in October. Now her right leg, fitted with a heavy metal bar and four screws drilled into the bone, may have to be amputated. "It
NEW DELHI: News website The Wire’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan and South Asia Editor of the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Anand Mangnale were among journalists recently targeted using the Pegasus spyware, an investigation by human rights organisation Amnesty International and The Washington Post
UITED NATIONS: Pakistan has urged the world community to take steps to end the foreign occupation and “brutal suppression” of the people in Kashmir and in Palestine, saying self-determination is their fundamental right. In a message marking the ‘Right to Self-Determination Day’, Ambassador Munir Akram
LONDON: Google has initiated testing of significant changes aimed at enhancing online user privacy by disabling third-party cookies in its Chrome browser, BBC reported. These cookies, small files stored on users' devices to collect analytic data, personalise online ads, and monitor browsing, will be deactivated through
DUBAI: Islamic State, the Sunni Muslim militant group which claimed responsibility for two deadly blasts in predominantly Shi'ite Iran this week, has been operating in the shadows since it was largely crushed by a U.S.-led coalition. Here are some facts about the movement which experts say
NEW DELHI: Squeezed between giant arch-rivals India and China, the landlocked mountain kingdom of Bhutan was long isolated by icy Himalayan peaks. But as Bhutan readies to elect a new parliament in Thimphu on January 9, China and India are watching the contest with keen interest
LONDON: Major rivers across Britain were flooded on Friday after heavy rain, with the government issuing more than 300 flood warnings, travel operators announcing serious disruption and around 1,000 homes suffering damage so far. A succession of storms in recent weeks meant prolonged rainfall that started