Russia Starts Missile Supplies to India
MOSCOW: Russia has started supplying India with S-400 air defence missile systems, Russian news agencies reported citing Dmitry Shugayev, the head of the Russian military...
Malala Fears Taliban will Keep Girls Out of School
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Sunday said that she was concerned that the Taliban’s block on girls’ education in Afghanistan will not be...
Earthquake Hits UAE, Iran
DUBAI: Earthquake tremors were felt in Dubai and Abu Dhabi on Sunday after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit Iran at 4:07pm local time. Some buildings shook...
Biden To Meet His Chinese Counterpart on November 15
NEW YORK: President Joe Biden’s highly anticipated virtual summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping will take place on Monday, the White House announced. “Following their September 9...
China Administers 8.5 Million COVID-19 Vaccines In Last 24 Hours
BEIJING: In China, 8.5 million people were vaccinated against coronavirus yesterday. The Chinese government’s ongoing campaign against the pandemic is being hailed as crucial. According...
Saudi Arabia To Give Citizenship For The First Time
Riyadh: Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has approved a new law that grants citizenship to highly skilled foreigners in the Sharia, legal, medical,...
Three killed In Blast At Afghan Mosque
JALALABAD: At least three people were killed and 15 wounded Friday by a blast at a mosque in Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar province, a hospital official...
Elon Musk Sells $5 bln in Tesla Shares
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk sold about $5 billion in shares, the billionaire reported in filings on Wednesday, just days after he polled Twitter users about...
US Inflation Hit 31-Year High
WASHINGTON: U.S. consumer prices accelerated in October as Americans paid more for gasoline and food, leading to the biggest annual gain in 31 years, more...
Kuwaiti Actress Lauds Bill Gates, Offers To Marry Him
Kuwait: Kuwaiti actress and singer Shams Bandar Al-Aslami has offered to marry US billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates through a tweet. It is noteworthy...
Aid Resumption to Afghanistan Unlikely: World Bank
KABUL: President of World Bank David Malpass said that it is unlikely for them to resume direct aid to Afghanistan citing challenges in the payment...
At least 26 Children Die In Niger School Fire
Maradi: At least 26 schoolchildren were killed when their classrooms made out of straw and wood were engulfed in a blaze in southern Niger on...
Small Plane Crashes in Brazil
SAO PAULO: Brazilian country singer Marilia Mendonca was killed on Friday along with her manager and aide when the small airplane they were traveling in...
Smog Engulfs Delhi After Diwali
NEW DELHI: Delhi recorded its worst day-after-Diwali air quality since 2016, with the air quality index, or AQI, soaring to 462 on the back of...
US Gives Final Approval To COVID-19 Shots For Kids 5 to 11
WASHINGTON: Seven-year-old Gael Coreas stuck out his left arm fearlessly to receive his first COVID-19 shot at a health clinic in the nation’s capital on...
Cargo Plane Crash-Lands In Somalia
Mogadishu: A cargo plane on Wednesday caught fire after it crash-landed at Dolow town airfield in Southern Somalia, officials said. Dolow airport is dusty airstrip...
IAF Promotes Abhinandan As Group Commander
NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force’s Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman whose MiG-21 Bison was downed by Pakistan Air Force has been promoted as group commander. Wing...
Tesla Recalls Nearly 12,000 Vehicles Over Software Fault
Tesla Inc is recalling nearly 12,000 US vehicles sold since 2017 because a communication error may cause a false forward-collision warning or unexpected activation of...
Use Of Foreign Currencies Banned In Afghanistan
KABUL: The Taliban government announced a ban on the use of foreign currencies, threatening further disruption to an already ailing economy. Since the group took...
Global Leaders Pledge to Safe Forests
GLASGOW: More than 100 global leaders late on Monday pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned...
Blast In Hospital Of Kabul Claims 13 Lives And Injuring 34 Others
KABUL: At least two explosions followed by gunfire hit Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital in Kabul, witnesses and Taliban officials said on Tuesday. The blast resulted...
Suicide Rate Increases in India
NEW DELHI: How did the Covid-19 pandemic affect accidental deaths and suicides in India? The 2020 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report released on October...
Pakistan Condemns Vandalization Of Mosques & Muslim Properties In India
Islamabad: Pakistan has strongly condemned the vandalization of several mosques, houses and shops of Muslims by radical Hindutva mobs in Tripura, India. In a statement,...
India Tests Agni-5 Ballistic Missile
NEW DELHI: India has tested a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead up to 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles), the defence ministry said. The...
Coup in Sudan As Military Detains PM Abdalla Hamdok
KHARTOUM: Soldiers arrested most of the members of Sudan’s cabinet and a large number of pro-government party leaders on Monday (today) in an apparent military...
US Announces Killing of Senior Al Qaeeda Leader in Drone Strike
A senior al-Qaeda leader was killed in a US drone strike in Syria, the Pentagon said Friday. The strike comes two days after a base...
Muslims Offered First Jumma At Haram Sharif Without Coronavirus Restrictions
MAKKAH: After the Saudi government relaxed COVID-19 restrictions pertaining to holy sites, Muslims flocked to the Grand Mosque in Makkah today and offered Jumma (Friday)...
Twin Blasts in Syria Kill At Least 27
DAMASCUS : A rare bombing of an army bus in Damascus and government shelling shortly after of a town in rebel-held northwest Syria killed at...
Biden Nominates Donald Blome As US Envoy For Pakistan
WASHINGTON: The White House has said that President Joe Biden has appointed diplomat Donald Blome as US Ambassador to Pakistan, who has extensive experience in...
Iran Asks World Powers To Show Sincerity In Talks
TEHRAN: Iran’s president said Monday the United States should lift the sanctions on his country to prove it is serious about restarting stalled nuclear talks...
Zalmay Khalilzad Resigns as US Special Envoy For Afghanistan
WASHINGTON: Zalmay Khalilzad, the veteran US envoy whose months of patient hotel-ballroom diplomacy helped end the US war in Afghanistan but failed to prevent a...
Facebook Announces Thousands of Job
PARIS: Facebook on Monday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the “metaverse”, a virtual reality version of the internet...
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell Dies of COVID-19
WASHINGTON: Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state who saw his legacy tarnished when he made the case for war in Iraq in...
Bill Gates’ Daughter Jennifer Marries Muslim Fiancé
New York: Jennifer Gates, the eldest child of Bill and Melinda Gates, was married to her Muslim fiancé Nayel Nassar in a private ceremony on...
US Offers Condolence Payments to Family of Afghans Killed in Kabul Drone Attack
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has offered unspecified condolence payments to the family of 10 civilians who were killed in a botched US drone attack in Afghanistan...
Indian Forces Martyr One More Youth in IoK
SRINAGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred a Kashmiri youth in Pulwama district, today....
Russia Says it Pushed US Destroyer From Area Near its Waters
MOSCOW: Russia’s Defense Ministry said a Russian warship on Friday prevented a U.S. Navy destroyer from what it described as an attempt to intrude into...
British MP Stabbed to Death
British Conservative MP David Amess has died after being stabbed at an event in his local constituency in southeast England, British media said Friday. Police...
Dozens Killed in Kandahar Mosque Blast
KABUL: A large explosion tore through a mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers, causing heavy casualties, a spokesman of the...
Taiwan Building Inferno Kills 46, Dozens Injured
TAIPEI: An overnight fire tore through a building in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung on Thursday, killing 46 people and injuring dozens of others...
Man Using Bow And Arrow Kills Four In Norway
OSLO: A man using a bow and arrow killed four people and wounded several others in attacks in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg on Wednesday....
Military Drills Near Taiwan a ‘Just’ Move: China
BEIJING: Chinese military exercises near Taiwan are targeted at forces promoting the island’s formal independence and are a “just” move to protect peace and stability,...
Indian Forces Martyr Five More Kashmiris
SRINAGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their fresh acts of state terrorism martyred five more Kashmiri youth in two different...
Liquidity Needed to Stem Afghanistan Economic, Humanitarian Crises: UN SG
The international community must find ways to inject cash directly into Afghanistan’s economy to avert its total collapse as a growing humanitarian crisis impacts half...
16 Killed in Russian Plane Crash
MOSCOW: In Russia, at least 16 people were killed while seven injured after a plane crashed in the Tatarstan region. In a statement, the emergency...
US To Hold First In-person Talks With Taliban Since Kabul Takeover
WASHINGTON: The United States and the Taliban will hold their first in-person talks since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan starting Saturday, the State Department said....
US Nuclear Submarine Damaged After Hitting Deep Water Object
US nuclear submarine was damaged and some crew members were injured when it “struck an unknown object” while operating at depth a week ago in...
Japan, Russia Agree For Negotiations on Peace Agreement
Japan and Russia have agreed to move forward with negotiations on a peace agreement. Speaking to the press after first phone call to Russian President...