World
AFP, MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin will not travel to Brazil for next month's BRICS summit due to the outstanding International CriminalCourt (ICC) arrest warrant on the Russian president, the Kremlin said Wednesday."The president will participate via video link. This is due to certain diffi...
AFP, Celaya, Mexico: Gunmen killed 10 people in an attack on a house in a central Mexican city plagued by gang-related violence, authorities said Wednesday.Several others were wounded in the shooting on Tuesday night in Irapuato in Guanajuato state, the municipal government said in a statement....
World,Politics
AFP, The Hague: President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday he had discussed a ceasefire in Ukraine with US leader Donald Trump on the sidelines of NATO's summit in The Hague.Zelensky said on social media that the meeting was "long and substantive" adding: "We discussed how to ach...
Business & Commerce
Most equities extended a global rally Wednesday after Iran and Israel agreed to a ceasefire that ended more than a week of hostilities, while the dollar struggled to recover from a sharp drop stoked by bets on a US interest rate cut.However, wariness over the agreement by the Middle East foes helped...
Chinese Premier Li Qiang warned on Wednesday that global trade tensions were "intensifying" as he addressed the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in the northern city of Tianjin.Officials including Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong are attending this week's gathering ...
Iran on Wednesday branded NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte's gushing note to President Donald Trump on US strikes targeting key nuclear sites as "disgraceful, despicable and irresponsible".On Tuesday, Rutte hailed in a pre-NATO summit note to Trump what he called his "decisive ac...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday hailed a "historic victory" in his country's 12-day war against Iran and vowed to prevent Tehran rebuilding its nuclear facilities."We have achieved a historic victory," Netanyahu said in a televised address to the nation a...
AFP, Tehran: Iran said on Tuesday that it was ready to return to negotiations with the United States, as a fragile ceasefire in its war with Israel took hold after 12 days of strikes that pummelled the Islamic republic's nuclear facilities.But even as he appeared to express willingness to revisi...
AFP, DAMASCUS: A loud blast heard in Damascus on Tuesday was caused by a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance by authorities, Syria's official SANA news agency reported."The explosion heard a short while ago in the vicinity of the capital resulted from the detonation of war remnants...
Tehran was far from its usual hustle and bustle on Tuesday, but life was regaining some colour despite concerns from residents that a tentative ceasefire between Iran and Israel may not hold, after nearly two weeks of war.In Tajrish bazaar in north Tehran, everyone had their own opinion on whether t...
Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will travel to China this week for talks with his regional counterparts, New Delhi said Tuesday.Ties between the world's two most populous nations have improved in recent months, after hitting a low in 2020 over a deadly clash between their troops on the Him...
Indonesian rescuers tried Tuesday to reach a Brazilian tourist who fell down a ravine at a volcano popular with hikers after spotting her unmoving body, authorities said.The woman identified by relatives and media reports as Juliana Marins, 26, went missing on Saturday at Mount Rinjani on Lombok isl...
Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Monday named his daughter, Saida Mirziyoyeva, as head of the newly created presidential administration, his spokesman said.Mirziyoyeva, 40, was previously the presidential first assistant in a country where the political sphere remains tightly control...
South Korean prosecutors asked a court Tuesday for a new arrest warrant to detain ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol, after he refused a summons by investigators probing his failed martial law bid.Yoon was formally stripped of office in April, after being impeached and suspended by lawmakers over his Decemb...
A potentially life-threatening heat wave enveloped the eastern third of the United States on Monday impacting nearly 160 million people, with temperatures expected to climb to 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) in the New York metropolitan area.The country's first significant scorching ...
AFP, Washington: US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that a ceasefire between Iran and Israel was holding, shortly after he lashed out at both countries and cursed as he accused them of violating the truce.In a fast-moving series of declarations, the 79-year-old Republican, who was on his way to ...
Sports,Cricket
Indian spin great Dilip Doshi has died aged 77, with former cricketers praising a man they said had been a "gentleman to the core".Doshi died in London on Monday, Indian media reported.The left-arm spinner was already in his thirties when he made his Test debut in 1979, and finished with 1...
Sports,Football
Lionel Messi faces a reunion with his former club Paris Saint-Germain after his Inter Miami side reached the last 16 of the Club World Cup with a 2-2 draw with Palmeiras.The Brazilian side fought back from two goals down to earn a 2-2 draw at Hard Rock Stadium, a result which secured both teams a pl...
AFP, New Delhi: Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will travel to China this week for talks with his regional counterparts, New Delhi said Tuesday.Ties between the world's two most populous nations have improved in recent months, after hitting a low in 2020 over a deadly clash between their t...
AFP, Tehran: Iran said on Tuesday that at least 610 civilians had been killed and more than 4,700 wounded in the Islamic republic since the start of the war with Israel on June 13."They are all civilians," health ministry spokesman Hossein Kermanpour said, announcing the increase from the ...
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