PYONGYANG: North Korea revealed its new "tactical nuclear attack submarine" in a ceremony presided over by the leader Kim Jong Un as part of strengthening the country's deterrence and defence capabilities, according to state media KCNA. During the ceremony, Kim Jong Un presided said that the
LONDON: 2023 is likely to be the hottest year in human history, and global temperatures during the Northern Hemisphere summer were the warmest on record, the EU climate monitor said on Friday. Heatwaves, droughts and wildfires struck Asia, Africa, Europe and North America over the last
NEW DELHI: G20 leaders began to descend on New Delhi Friday, hoping to make progress on trade, climate and a host of other global problems despite the Chinese and Russian president’s skipping the summit. The G20 was conceived in the throes of the 2008 financial crisis
SRINAGAR: Posters have appeared in Srinagar, urging the G20 heads to ask Modi to stop the slow-motion massacre of people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), and resolve the Kashmir dispute according to the United Nations (UN) resolutions. The posters, displayed by pro-freedom organizations,
LONDON: King Charles III succeeded his mother Queen Elizabeth II on the British throne after her death on Sept. 8 last year, becoming king of not just the United Kingdom, but also Australia, Canada, New Zealand and 11 other countries. Here are brief details of the
KYIV: Ukraine’s human rights commissioner has called for more international pressure on Moscow to help Kyiv bring home thousands of Ukrainian children who Kyiv says have been illegally taken to Russia during the war. Dmytro Lubinets spoke to Reuters in Kyiv days after several minors were
JERUSALEM: Four Roman-era swords, their wooden and leather hilts and scabbards and steel blades exquisitely preserved after 1,900 years in a desert cave, surfaced in a recent excavation by Israeli archaeologists near the Dead Sea, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Thursday. The cache of exceptionally intact
LONDON: Britain is to ban Russian mercenary outfit the Wagner Group as a terrorist organization, media reports said, quoting Home Secretary Suella Braverman. The UK was set to make the Wagner Group a “proscribed” organization under anti-terror laws, putting it on a par with Islamic State
BIRMINGHAM: Life and legend of Shaheed Syed Ali Geelani was commemorated during a one-day conference in the United Kingdom to recall contributions of the veteran Kashmiri resistance leader. Hosted by Tehreek-e-Kashmir (TeK) UK, the speakers during the conference paid tributes to Geelani, who attained martyrdom on
LONDON: The mother and grandmother of British schoolgirl Sara Sharif have said they barely recognized her body at a mortuary due to the severity of her injuries. The 10-year-old was found at her home in Woking, Surrey, where she lived with her father, Urfan Sharif, her