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Terrorists attacked an Army and police joint checkpost in Jammu Kashmir’s Doda late on Tuesday night in the third such incident in the past 72 hours. According to official sources, multiple rounds were fired at the temporary operating base (TOB) in the remote Chattargala area and several teams of security forces were rushed to the scene. ADGP…

The United Nations Security Council on Monday backed a proposal outlined by President Joe Biden for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and urged the Palestinian militants to accept the deal aimed at ending the eight-month-long war. Hamas welcomed the adoption of the U.S.-drafted resolution and said in a statement that it is…

Across Europe, the far and populist right made notable gains in the European Parliament elections raising questions over what the political future of the continent looked like. French President Emmanuel Macron has called a snap election after his party suffered calamitous results in EU elections – while in Belgium, poor general election results have led to its…

Israel on Saturday carried out its largest hostage rescue operation since the latest war with Hamas began, taking four to safety out of central Gaza in a heavy air and ground assault. At least 210 Palestinians, including children, were killed, a Gaza health official said. Israelis were jubilant as the army said it freed Noa Argamani, 26;…

The U.N. secretary-general will tell the Security Council next week that both Israel and Hamas are violating children’s rights and leaving them exposed to danger in their war to eliminate each other. The secretary-general annually makes a global list of states and militias that are menacing children and threatening them. Parties on the list have ranged from…

Ever since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has been engaged in nuclear sabre-rattling, dropping a series of not-so-subtle hints that trying to defeat a nuclear power like Russia could have disastrous consequences for those who try. Today President Putin claimed that Russia wouldn’t need to use a nuclear weapon to achieve victory in Ukraine. He was…

Israel targeted a Gaza school on Thursday that it said contained a Hamas compound, killing fighters involved in the Oct. 7 attack that sparked the eight-month war, but Gaza media said the strike killed at least 27 people seeking shelter. Ismail Al-Thawabta, the director of the Hamas-run government media office, rejected Israel’s claims that the U.N. school…

“The battle to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees will be won or lost in the 2020s,” warns UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The last 12 months have all been over the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees of global warming, according to a new analysis of temperature data. Global average temperatures from June 2023 to May 2024…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he could deploy conventional missiles within striking distance of the United States and its European allies if they allowed Ukraine to strike deeper into Russia with long-range Western weapons. Putin, in his first face-to-face meeting with senior editors of international news agencies since the war in Ukraine began, said the…

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday instituted a broad asylum ban on migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, a major enforcement move in the run-up to November elections that will decide control of the White House. Migrants caught crossing illegally could be quickly deported or turned back to Mexico under the measure, which will take effect…

Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci contradicted several of his past statements from the COVID-19 pandemic when he testified before Congress on Monday. The former top pandemic adviser to two presidential administrations, who retired from NIAID in 2022 after nearly four decades at the head of NIAID, faced sharp questions…

UN Climate head Simon Stiell said it’s clear that the second half of humanity’s climate journey will be even harder, and climate action will need to move at a faster pace The world is headed for 2.7 degree C warming and the road to keep it to 1.5 degree C is extremely steep, UN Climate head Simon…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s unscheduled appearance at Asia’s biggest security conference dominated proceedings on Sunday after China’s defence chief slammed “separatists” in Taiwan, drawing a sharp response from the government in Taipei. Dressed in his trademark olive green T-shirt, Zelenskiy addressed the last day of the Shangri-La Dialogue forum in Singapore, asking for support and participation at…

Donald Trump said on Sunday he would accept home confinement or jail time after his historic conviction on criminal charges by a New York jury last week but that it would be tough for the public to accept. Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, four days before Republicans gather to formally choose their presidential…

Dong Jun rails at length about democratic island’s ‘separatists’ during Shangri-la Dialogue defence conference in Singapore Peaceful “reunification” with Taiwan remains China’s goal but the prospect is being eroded by Taiwanese “separatists” and external forces, the Chinese defence minister, Dong Jun, has said. Taiwan – which is democratically governed, and has never been ruled from the Communist-run…

A Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side of the moon Sunday to collect soil and rock samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side. The landing module touched down at 6:23 a.m. Beijing time in a huge crater known as the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the China National Space…

Donald Trump stared down a bank of cameras inside Trump Tower on Friday and delivered a message fitting for both his legal and political battles: He is ready to fight. A day after a New York jury found him guilty of 34 counts related to falsifying documents to hide hush money payments to a porn star, the…

The first phase of the deal would be a six-week ceasefire, the second the return of remaining hostages from Gaza, and the third, and final stage, a reconstruction plan for Gaza, Joe Biden announced on Friday. Israel has offered a comprehensive new ceasefire deal to Hamas, according to US President Joe Biden. The deal would involve the…

A first round of negotiations between Israel and Hamas in November led to the release of about 100 captives in exchange for Palestinians held in Israeli jails. But since then talks have largely stalled. The latest development in the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel sees Hamas expressing readiness to reach a comprehensive agreement, which includes a…

Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime on Thursday when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election. After two days of deliberation, the 12-member jury pronounced Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts…

Due to changes in the provincial laws related to immigration in Prince Edward Island province, hundreds of Indian students are facing deportation from Canada. Amid the ongoing protest by hundreds of Indian students against a change in the provincial laws related to immigration in Canada’s Prince Edward Island (PEI) province, some students have threatened to go on…

Former US President Donald Trump is considering appointing Tesla CEO Elon Musk as an advisor to the White House as the 2024 Presidential elections draw near, according to The Wall Street Journal. Although the specifics are not yet finalized, Trump and Musk have been discussing how the Tesla leader could provide “formal input” on issues such as…

The cocaine was seized from eight separate suspected drug smuggling vessels off the coast of Mexico and Central and South America The U.S. Coast Guard announced it had unloaded a hefty quantity of confiscated cocaine in San Diego, California that was worth an estimated $468 million. The nearly 34,000 pounds of illicit drugs were seized while intersecting…

A verdict in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial could come as early as Thursday, after the jury was sent home Wednesday following four-and-a-half hours of deliberation. Prosecutions and defense lawyers are now hashing out details in the court after the jury sent in two notes, and asked for testimony to be read back to them. After…

Israeli shelling and airstrikes killed at least 37 people, most of them sheltering in tents, outside the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight and on May 28 — pummelling the same area where strikes triggered a deadly fire days earlier in a camp for displaced Palestinians — according to witnesses, emergency workers and hospital officials. The tent…

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Tuesday that NATO members in Europe were playing with fire by proposing to let Ukraine use Western weapons to strike deep inside Russia, which he said could trigger a global conflict. More than two years into the deadliest land war in Europe since World War Two, Putin has increasingly…

Former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday admitted that Islamabad had “violated” an agreement with India signed by him and ex-prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999, in an apparent reference to the Kargil misadventure by Gen Pervez Musharraf. “On May 28, 1998, Pakistan carried out five nuclear tests. After that Vajpayee Saheb came here and made…

Member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday decided not to invite Taiwan to the organization’s annual assembly in Geneva after China appealed for it to remain sidelined. Taiwan is excluded from most international organisations because of objections by China, which considers the democratically governed island its territory. Taiwan attended the WHO’s World Health Assembly…

A rocket launched by North Korea to deploy the country’s second spy satellite exploded shortly after liftoff Monday, state media reported, in a setback for leader Kim Jong Un’s hopes to field satellites to monitor the U.S. and South Korea. Monday’s failed launch came hours after leaders of South Korea, China and Japan met in Seoul in…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a “tragic mistake” was made in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that set fire to a camp housing displaced Palestinians and, according to local officials, killed at least 45 people. The strike only added to the surging international criticism Israel has faced over its war…

A cyclone flooded coastal villages and left hundreds of thousands of people without power Monday in southern Bangladesh, where nearly 800,000 residents had evacuated. At least seven deaths were reported. Cyclone Remal started lashing Bangladesh’s southern coast late Sunday and was moving fast and would weaken by noon Bangladesh’s Meteorological Department in Dhaka said. TV stations reported…

After 22 witnesses, including a porn actor, tabloid publisher and White House insiders, testimony is over at Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York. Prosecutors called 20 witnesses. The defense called just two. Trump decided not to testify on his own behalf. The trial now shifts to closing arguments, scheduled for Tuesday. After that, it will be…

Presidential candidate Donald Trump was booed and heckled by many in a raucous audience at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday night, a marked change from the adulation he receives at rallies from his fervently loyal supporters. Libertarians, who believe in limited government and individual freedom, blame Trump, a Republican, for rushing through the creation of a…

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that recognises the current battlefield lines, four Russian sources told Reuters, saying he is prepared to fight on if Kyiv and the West do not respond. Three of the sources, familiar with discussions in Putin’s entourage, said the veteran Russian leader…

The court also ordered Israel to open the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza to allow in humanitarian aid, and said Israel must provide access to the besieged territory for investigators and report back on its progress within a month. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to stop its military offensive in the southern…

China’s military carried out a second day of war games around Taiwan on Friday, with drills to test their ability to “seize power” and control key areas, exercises it has said were launched to punish Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te. The two days of drills in the Taiwan Strait and around groups of Taiwan-controlled islands near the Chinese…

Taiwan’s military mobilized its forces and said it was confident it could protect the island, after China started two days of “punishment” drills around Taiwan on Thursday in what it said was a response to “separatist acts”. The exercises, in the Taiwan Strait and around groups of Taiwan-controlled islands that sit next to the Chinese coast, come…

Aid groups in Gaza say they are running low on fuel and are unable to get more from Egypt, straining their operations on the ground. As Hamas and Israel continue to disagree over some of the finer details of a hostage and cease-fire deal for Gaza, there’s one issue that’s preventing the two parties from restarting formal…

One passenger died and 30 others were injured after a Singapore Airlines flight hit severe turbulence on Tuesday. Singapore Airlines CEO on Wednesday issued a public apology after one passenger died and about 70 others were injured due to severe turbulence on a flight from London to Singapore. In a video message, Goh Choon Phong said that…

An infected blood scandal in Britain was no accident but the fault of doctors and a succession of governments that led to 3,000 deaths and thousands more contracting hepatitis or HIV, a public inquiry reported on Monday. Inquiry chair Brian Langstaff said more than 30,000 people received infected blood and blood products in the 1970s and 1980s…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has angrily condemned the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor for seeking arrest warrants for him alongside Hamas’s leaders over alleged war crimes in the Gaza conflict. Mr Netanyahu said he rejected with disgust that “democratic Israel” had been compared with what he called “mass murderers”. Mr Netanyahu’s comments have been echoed by US…

Funeral processions are due to be held for President Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian who were among eight people killed when the helicopter crashed in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province in foggy conditions. Five days of national mourning have been declared by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the president and foreign minister died in…

An Israeli airstrike killed 27 people in central Gaza, mostly women and children, and fighting with Hamas raged across the north on Sunday as Israel’s leaders aired divisions over who should govern Gaza after the war, now in its eighth month. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces criticism from the other members of his War Cabinet, with main…

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident. The official said the lives of Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were “at risk following the helicopter…

Israeli troops and tanks pushed on Saturday into parts of a congested northern Gaza Strip district that they had previously skirted in the more than seven-month-old war, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, medics and residents said. Israel’s forces also took over some ground in Rafah, a southern city by the Egyptian border that is packed with…

A RAMPAGING Vladimir Putin will make serious breakthroughs in Ukraine this Summer – his first move towards plunging Europe into a bloody WW3, former army bosses have warned. Putin’s meat-grinder forces will smash through Ukraine’s weakened defences and take the Donbas region by late June if the West doesn’t act now, former British generals and security experts…

Shani Louk’s body was seen face-down in a pick-up truck travelling through Gaza in a video that was shared widely on social media after the hostages were taken. The bodies of three Israeli hostage taken by Hamas have been recovered in Gaza. The remains were discovered in an overnight operation carried out by Israel’s military and intelligence…

Some of Donald Trump’s allies are assembling proposals to curtail the Justice Department’s independence and turn the nation’s top law enforcement body into an attack dog for conservative causes, nine people involved in the effort told Reuters. If successful, the overhaul could represent one of the most consequential actions of a second Trump presidency given the Justice…

South Africa urged the U.N.’s top court on Thursday to order a halt to Israel’s offensive on Rafah, saying attacks on the southern Gaza city “must be stopped” to ensure the survival of the Palestinian people. South Africa’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Vusimuzi Madonsela, asked judges to order Israel to “immediately, totally and unconditionally, withdraw the Israeli…

The situation in Ukraine is so serious that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had to cancel a planned trip to Spain and come straight to Kharkiv — the country’s second largest city, which is again in real danger from the Russian advance. With exclusive access, ABC News joined Zelenskyy on a tour of a hospital in the city, with…

UKRAINE’S generals warned they have run out of reserves to halt Russia’s shock assault on Kharkiv. It comes as Vladimir Putin masses more than half a million troops on the frontline in a bid to overpower Ukraine’s forces.   A fire erupted following a Russian air strike near KharkivCredit: Getty Ukraine’s military has admitted it is struggling…

Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot multiple times and gravely wounded Wednesday, but his deputy prime minister said he believed Fico would survive. The prime minister had been greeting supporters at an event when the attempted assassination took place, shocking the small country and reverberating across Europe weeks before an election. “I guess in the end…

Amid a slew of lay-offs by tech companies in the US, which has impacted thousands of employees, including Indians, the USCIS clarified that laid-off H-1B visa holders could stay in the US beyond 60 days. This is what H-1B visa holders need to do to stay in the US beyond the grace period. Employees on H-1B visas…

The administration notifies Congress of a large arms package after withholding shipment of bombs last week The Biden administration notified Congress on Tuesday that it was moving forward with more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel, U.S. and congressional officials said, a massive arms package less than a week after the White House paused…

The White House on Monday gave a Chinese-linked company and its partners 120 days to sell property they had bought near a U.S. Air Force base in Wyoming that is home to part of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, citing fears of spying. The move comes as the United States has become increasingly concerned about the national security…

Speaking to Trevor Phillips on Sky News, Lord Cameron said an arms embargo would strengthen Hamas and make a hostage deal less likely. An Israeli arms embargo is “not a wise path” and the UK and America are “in a totally different situation”, the foreign secretary has said. Lord Cameron told the Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips…

The prime minister will outline “the stark choice facing the UK public” ahead of the general election, in what is described as a “major speech” by Downing Street. It is not clear what specific ideas he will set out. Rishi Sunak will give a speech on Monday setting out “bold ideas to change society” – as he…

Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defence minister on Sunday in an attempt to gird Russia for economic war by trying to better utilise the defence budget and harness greater innovation to win in Ukraine. More than two years into the conflict, which has cost both sides heavy casualties, Putin proposed…

Kamal Kharrazi, the adviser, hinted at a shift in Iran’s nuclear doctrine if its existence is perceived to be under threat by Israel. An adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reignited concerns over the country’s nuclear ambitions, particularly in light of escalating tensions with Israel. Kamal Kharrazi, the adviser, hinted at a shift in…

Donald Trump said on Saturday that former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was not being considered to be his running mate in the November election, dismissing a report by news site Axios. “Nikki Haley is not under consideration for the V.P. slot, but I wish her well!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. Citing…

The United Nations General Assembly has enhanced Palestine’s rights within the organisation and called for it to be accepted as a member. Palestine has had non-member observer state status since 2012, which allows some rights short of a full member. Membership can only be decided upon by the UN Security Council. The US recently vetoed a bid…

The Biden administration said Friday that Israel’s use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law but that wartime conditions prevented U.S. officials from determining that for certain in specific airstrikes. The finding of “reasonable” evidence to conclude that the U.S. ally had breached international law protecting civilians in the way it conducted its war…

The Portuguese-flagged MSC Aries, a container ship with a crew of 25 including 17 Indians, was seized by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard on April 13 near the Strait of Hormuz. The Indian Embassy in Iran announced on Friday that Tehran has released five Indian crew members from the seized cargo vessel MSC Aries. 5 of the Indian…