Washington DC/IBNS: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday bought a new Tesla in a show of support for the company CEO Elon Musk whose firm is facing a backlash after the billionaire supported the Republican's government.
Washington DC/IBNS: US President Donald Trump has said he hopes his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will agree to Ukraine's call for a ceasefire in the Moscow-Kyiv conflict and put an end to the "horrible war".
U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his trade war with Canada on Tuesday, doubling the 25% U.S. tariff on its northern neighbor’s steel and aluminum exports to 50% after Canada’s Ontario provincial leader said he is adding a 25% levy on electricity sold to 1.5 million American customers.
A Dhaka court has ordered the seizure of plots, houses and flats belonging to former PM Sheikh Hasina and her family members, adding more troubles for the family that played a major role in securing Bangladesh's freedom from Pakistan in 1971.
European military and political heads are holding high-level talks this week after calls for massively rearming Europe — and boosting aid for Kyiv — amid fears of a less engaged United States. Lisa Bryant has more from Paris.
Security forces killed at least 16 terrorists and rescued 104 passengers after the Jaffar Express was hijacked by suspected Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) members in Pakistan's Balochistan region on Tuesday.
Pakistani troops freed dozens of train passengers taken hostage by Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) armed militants in the country's southwest on Tuesday.
Ukraine on Tuesday agreed to a US proposal for a 30-day general ceasefire with Russia, with the United States in turn promising to lift restrictions on military aid and intelligence sharing, a joint statement by the two sides said.
The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) which seeks independence for Balochistan from Pakistan in a statement claimed responsibility for taking control of a train and keeping over 180 passengers, most of them Pakistani soldiers, hostages.
Washington DC/IBNS: Donald Trump on Tuesday doubled the tariff on all steel and aluminum products coming into the United States from Canada, bringing the total to 50 percent.
A shortage of amphibious warfare ships for commanders across the globe has reached a breaking point, with defense officials warning VOA the crisis has triggered a monthslong drought in critical firepower from sea-based Marines.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday held a telephone conversation with American President Donald Trump ahead of the US-Ukraine dialogue in Jeddah city in Saudi Arabia.
Members of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), the group that wants Balochistan to be free from Pakistan, attacked the Jaffar Express in Mach area on Tuesday and claimed they have hijacked the train.
Britain is seeking to finalize a deal on handing sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after U.S. President Donald Trump said last month that he was “inclined” to support the deal. However, critics say the agreement could threaten the security of a joint U.S.-U.K. military base on the islands amid fears of China’s close ties with Mauritius.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed alarm Monday at the sudden escalation of violence in Syria's coastal region, where security forces have clashed since Thursday with fighters loyal to former President Bashar al-Assad, killing hundreds of civilians.
Billionaire Elon Musk said microblogging site X was hit by a massive cyberattack on Monday, suggesting that a large, coordinated group or even a nation-state could be behind it.
U.S. President Donald Trump is keeping new tariffs in place on Mexico, Canada and China to pressure them to block the flow of the deadly opioid fentanyl into the United States, top White House economic officials said Sunday.
A woman and her infant child were shot dead in the name of 'honour' in the early hours of Monday in Pakistan's Mardan city, media reports said.
At least 36 members belonging to the banned militant outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) were arrested by Bangladeshi police on Friday while conducting a nationwide search operation to nab them.
North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward the Yellow Sea on Monday, a day after South Korea and the USA began their annual military drill, media reports said.
The Department of Religion and Culture of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) recently held a one-hour prayer service in the north Indian Himalayan city of Dharamshala to pay homage to those peaceful Tibetan protesters who participated in the 1989 demonstrations against the Chinese government.
When President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had created a new White House office to "resurrect" American military and commercial shipbuilding, he elevated long-standing calls to fix the struggling industry that he said is vital to national security. His clarion call to build more ships "very fast and very soon" comes at a time of rising strategic competition with China.
Ottawa/IBNS: Former Bank of Canada chief Mark Carney is set to succeed Justin Trudeau as the Canadian Prime Minister, media reports said.
President Donald Trump’s envoy for hostages, Adam Boehler, said Sunday that his meetings last week, with the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas, about hostages it is holding in Gaza were “very helpful” and could lead to their release “within weeks.”
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will arrive in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday for U.S.-Ukraine talks as President Donald Trump pushes to broker a swift end to the Russia-Ukraine war, despite Russia’s latest massive aerial attacks against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
US Secret Service personnel on Sunday shot an armed adult man outside the White House, media reports said.
Westminister Police in the UK have arrested a pro-Palestinian man who climbed to the top of Big Ben's Elizabeth Tower at the Palace of Westminster in central London and stayed there for 16 hours.
Female activists raised their voices at the United Nations on Friday as they marked International Women's Day amid a global trend of backsliding on hard-won rights.
Massive clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad as well as revenge killings for two days left more than 1,000 people dead, media reports said on Sunday.
A Pakistani "scholar", who was accused of helping Pakistan's ISI spy agency in kidnapping former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav from Iran, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Balochistan on Friday night, media reports said.
