International

AFP/APP Washington: A US military team comprising 200 personnel will be deployed in the Middle East to “oversee” the Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas following a peace deal brokered by President Donald Trump, senior US officials…

AFP/APP Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron will name a new prime minister within the next 48 hours, his office said on Wednesday, following the resignation of outgoing premier Sébastien Lecornu, which has plunged the country deeper…

Kyodo/APP Stockholm: Japanese scientist Susumu Kitagawa, along with two others, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for developing porous materials that can store and release gases such as natural gas, the Royal Swedish Academy…

AFP/APP Istanbul: US President Donald Trump asked Turkey to "persuade" Hamas to accept his plan for ending the Gaza war, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a transcript shared by his office on Wednesday. His remarks came as…

News Desk Beijing/Kathmandu: Hundreds of trekkers in Tibet’s Everest region were stranded over the weekend after an unseasonal blizzard swept through the Karma valley, forcing large-scale rescue operations amid unusually heavy snow and…

News Desk New Delhi: An Indian lawyer hurled a shoe at Chief Justice of India BR Gavai on Monday during court proceedings in Delhi, in what has been widely described as a serious breach of courtroom protocol and a public insult. The…

News Desk Islamabad: At least 15 million adolescents aged 13 to 15 are using e-cigarettes globally, with young people nearly nine times more likely to vape than adults, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. In its first…

News Desk  Tel Aviv/Istanbul/Rome: When 21-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg boarded the Global Sumud Flotilla last week, she joined hundreds of international peace campaigners hoping to symbolically challenge Israel’s naval…

News Desk Cairo: The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has agreed to surrender its weapons under international supervision, marking a major development in the ongoing talks with mediators in Cairo. Hamas leaders said they had…

News Desk  Beijing: A new trend among young people in China is turning heads—and teeth—as an increasing number of youth are opting for tattoos on their teeth, raising concerns among dental experts. According to foreign media reports,…