International

Dhaka: Bangladesh Thursday termed the recent remarks by the Ministry of the External Affairs on the country as unwarranted and amounting to interference in another country's domestic affairs. Last week, India voiced concern over Bangladesh releasing certain violent extremists and underlined that it is the...

Mekele: As a displaced person in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, 76-year-old Haile Tsege is no stranger to hunger. During its war with Tigray fighters that devastated the region in 2020-2022, the Ethiopian government's restrictions on the rebellious region reduced aid flows to a trickle. Then,...

Seoul: The South Korean prosecution said Thursday that there is "no change" in its decision not to appeal the release of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol from jail. The statement by the Supreme Prosecutors Office (SPO) came a day after Chun Dae-yup, the...

Moscow: Russia claimed Thursday that its troops have driven the Ukrainian army out of the biggest town in Russia's Kursk border region, as a senior Kremlin official said that a US-proposed 30-day ceasefire in the war three years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine would...

Seoul: South Korea's top court Thursday rejected social media giant Meta's appeal against a 6.7 billion-won ($4.6 million) fine imposed by the data protection watchdog for sharing user information without their consent, judicial sources said. In November 2020, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) fined...

Moscow: Russian forces have driven the Ukrainian army out of the biggest town in Russia's Kursk border region, officials claimed Thursday, as US officials sought the Kremlin's response to a proposed 30-day ceasefire in the three-year war that Ukraine has endorsed. The Russian Defence Ministry's...

Karachi: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif  Thursday visited the restive Balochistan province Thursday to review the law and order situation and to express solidarity with the people there following the Jaffar Express hijacking incident in which 21 civilians and four soldiers were killed. Sharif's visit...

Dubai: An Emirati diplomat earlier identified by Tehran as carrying a letter from US President Donald Trump seeking to jump-start talks over Iran's rapidly advancing nuclear programme met Wednesday with Iran's foreign minister in the Iranian capital. It is unclear how Iran will react to...

Taipei: Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te said Thursday tougher measures are needed to counter stepped-up Chinese infiltration, spying and other efforts to weaken the island's defences. Lai cited a range of recent incidents involving China that fall into a “gray area” of psychological warfare short...

Washington: Mia Francis, a 22-year-old barista from Boston, filed her taxes on her own this year for the first time, using a free government tax filing program that made it easy because it did most of the work for her. Francis said it took 45...