Indian farmers burn legislation in show of defiance
GHAZIABAD: Indian farmers burnt copies of the government’s new agricultural laws on Wednesday, pressing on with their protest against the reforms despite...
Kuwait’s cabinet submits resignation in standoff with parliament
DUBAI: Kuwait’s Prime Minister Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah presented the resignation of his cabinet to the country’s ruler on Wednesday, days before the...
‘Safest place in Washington’ no more. A reporter’s disbelief
WASHINGTON: I still can’t stop watching the videos.
There are so many of them, each with new clues about what happened a week...
Indonesia confident on finding second ‘black box’ of crashed plane
JAKARTA: Indonesian divers believe they are close to finding the cockpit voice recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that plunged into the...
Telegraph co-owner David Barclay dies at 86 after short illness
LONDON: British billionaire and The Telegraph co-owner David Barclay has died after a short illness aged 86, the newspaper said late on...
Israel’s Netanyahu removes Trump from his Twitter banner photo
TEL AVIV: Israel Prime Benjamin Netanyahu dropped US President Donald Trump from the banner photo of his Twitter account on Tuesday in...
India’s top court suspends implementation of new farm laws
NEW DELHI: India’s top court on Tuesday temporarily put on hold the implementation of new agricultural laws and ordered the formation of...
Indonesia uses unmanned undersea vehicle in hunt for air crash victims, ‘black boxes’
JAKARTA: Indonesia has deployed a remotely operated underwater vehicle to help divers search for the remains of victims and recover the flight...
India arrests man ‘honey trapped by ISI’
India's Crime Inspection Department (CID) has arrested a man accused of leaking sensitive information to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) after being lured...
House speeding to impeach Trump for Capitol ‘insurrection’
WASHINGTON: Poised to impeach, the United States House sped ahead with plans to oust President Donald Trump from office, warning he is...
China reports biggest daily Covid-19 case jump in over 5 months
SHANGHAI/BEIJING: Mainland China saw its biggest daily increase in Covid-19 cases in over five months, the country’s health authority said on Monday,...
India’s top court chides government over impasse with protesting farmers
NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court on Monday criticised the government for failing to break a deadlock with farmers protesting against reforms of...
Still hoping: Indonesians await news of relatives on missing plane
JAKARTA: “Bye bye family. We’re heading home for now,” Ratih Windania posted on Instagram from Jakarta’s airport with pictures of three laughing...
Trump remains defiant amid calls to resign
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump enters the last days of his presidency isolated and shunned by former allies and members of his own...
US to designate Yemen’s Houthi movement as foreign terror group: sources
RIYADH/WASHINGTON: The United States plans to designate Yemen’s Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organisation, three sources familiar with the matter said,...