International

AFP/APP Mandalay, Myanmar: The death toll from a massive earthquake that hit Myanmar and Thailand surpassed 1,000 on Saturday, as rescuers worked tirelessly to search for survivors amid the rubble of collapsed buildings. The shallow…

AFP/APP Naypyidaw, Myanmar: A powerful earthquake rocked central Myanmar on Friday, buckling roads in the capital Naypyidaw, damaging buildings, and forcing people to flee into the streets in neighboring Thailand. The 7.7-magnitude…

AFP/APP Buenos Aires: Argentina has sought a $20 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, the country's economy minister said Thursday, as the government struggles to maintain foreign reserves while propping up an ailing…

AFP/APP Washington: US President Donald Trump has announced steep tariffs on auto imports and parts, provoking threats of retaliation from trading partners ahead of further promised trade levies next week. Wall Street slumped ahead of…

AFP/APP Tokyo: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Thursday he hopes "justice is served" to far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro, who will stand trial on charges of plotting a coup. The country's Supreme Court on…

AFP/APP Washington: US President Donald Trump's offensive against lawyers and law firms who have crossed swords with him in the past is being met with a mixture of capitulation and defiance. The 78-year-old Trump, the first convicted…

News Desk Islamabad: Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have identified chewing gum as an unexpected source of microplastic exposure. A study, announced on Tuesday, revealed that gum releases hundreds of…

AFP/APP Paris: European sales of Tesla electric cars dropped 49 percent in January-February compared with the same period a year earlier, the ACEA manufacturers' association said Tuesday. Ageing models are one factor behind the plunge…

AFP/APP Sydney: A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck off New Zealand's South Island on Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey said. The tremor hit at 2:43 pm (0143 GMT) at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) off the southwest tip…

AFP/APP Ottawa: Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called early elections for April 28, pledging to defeat Donald Trump’s drive to annex the United States’ huge northern neighbor. Carney, a former central banker, was…