The Israeli government has said Israeli forces will remain in southern Lebanon beyond a 60-day deadline stipulated in a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah because its terms have not been fully implemented. In a statement, the Israeli prime minister’s office said, under the agreement Hezbollah weapons and fighters must be...
Sri Lanka’s Deputy Finance Minister Anil Jayantha has said that an investigation has been initiated in the matter of the release of 323 red-flagged containers at the Colombo port. Addressing the Parliament, Mr Jayantha said that the containers were reportedly released following scans to address congestion caused by an...
Russian scientists reported a rare phenomenon involving a black emission of plasma observed on the Sun, the Laboratory of Solar Astronomy at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences announced on its website on Wednesday.
“A very rare, beautiful, and even slightly eerie phenomenon occurred today on...
Foreign ministers from Quad countries — India, Australia, Japan and the United States– in a joint statement reaffirmed their shared commitment to strengthening a free and open Indo-Pacific where “sovereignty and territorial integrity are upheld and defended.”
The Quad nations also expressed strong opposition “to any unilateral actions aimed at...
President Donald trump on Monday slammed China as the reason for his withdrawal of the US from the Paris Climate Accord in a significant departure from his announcement in his first term in 2017 when he also blamed India.
"I'm immediately withdrawing from the unfair, one-sided Paris Climate Accord rip off the...
The first three hostages were released from Gaza and the first Palestinian prisoners were freed from Israeli custody as the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold following 15 months of war, with mixed emotions and more difficult steps ahead over the next six weeks.
Palestinians across Gaza began...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the UN will exert all efforts to enable Lebanon to achieve economic recovery. The UN chief said he visits Lebanon to express deep solidarity with the country and its people who have suffered from successive internal and regional crises. Guterres also stressed...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a “last minute crisis” with Hamas was holding up Israeli approval of a long-awaited agreement to pause the fighting in the Gaza Strip and release dozens of hostages. Israeli airstrikes meanwhile killed dozens of people across the war-ravaged territory.
Netanyahu’s office said...
Iran delivered 1,000 domestically-produced drones to its army on Monday
The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), designed and manufactured by the Defence Ministry, were distributed to combat units across various regions of the country, the report said.
At a handover ceremony, Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh said the drones would strengthen Iran’s ability...
About 92,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders due to the Los Angeles wildfires in the western United States, and another 89,000 are under evacuation warnings, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna told reporters on Monday.
At least 25 people have died and more than a dozen others remain unaccounted...
