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
KABUL: Saudi Arabia’s aid agency KSrelief is helping tens of thousands of Afghan families, many of whom have no access to other assistance as international support for the war-torn country is drying up. KSrelief has been providing lifesaving aid to Afghan civilians even when major global
JAKARTA: Myanmar has ceded its turn to chair the Southeast Asian regional bloc, an official confirmed on Tuesday, after the group agreed that an existing, but widely-criticised peace plan will continue to guide its response to the bloody conflict there. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
NEW DELHI: India was buzzing with speculation on Tuesday over rumoured plans to scrap the official usage of the country’s English name after a state-issued invite sent to world leaders referred to it as “Bharat”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has worked to remove lingering symbols
NAIROBI: An initiative to boost Africa's carbon credit production 19-fold by 2030 drew hundreds of millions of dollars of pledges on Monday as Kenyan President William Ruto opened the continent's first climate summit. In one of the most anticipated deals, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) committed