US Congress passes stopgap bill to avert government shutdown
WASHINGTON: The US Congress passed a stopgap funding bill late on Saturday with overwhelming Democratic support after Republican Speaker Kevin…
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Pope Francis creates 21 new cardinals
Vatican City: Pope Francis created 21 new cardinals at a ritual-filled ceremony on Saturday, including key figures at the Vatican…
May annex more Ukrainian regions: Medvedev
Moscow: Russia‘s former leader Dmitry Medvedev suggested Saturday that Moscow may annex more regions of Ukraine, as he marked one…
Musk: Elon Musk slams migrants rescue operations by Germany
BERLIN: Billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday waded into German politics at a time of a heated debate on immigration across…
Scotland: Safety of foreign diplomats of utmost importance, UK minister says, after India takes up ‘disgraceful incident’
LONDON: The UK’s minister for Indo-Pacific has said that the safety and security of foreign diplomats is of utmost importance,…
US government hours from shutdown, as lawmakers scrabble for solutions
WASHINGTON: With the US government just hours from shutting down on Saturday, Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy pitched a last-gasp stopgap…
New York City’s heavy rain is ‘new normal’ due to climate change, governor says
Torrential downpours after a week of mostly steady rainfall that brought flash flooding to New York City on Friday were…
Pro-Beijing frontrunner leads Maldives presidential polls as India, China influence takes centre stage
NEW DELHI: The opposition candidate in Maldives appeared to be headed for a win in the presidential runoff on Saturday,…
China says US is the true ’empire of lies’
BEIJING: The United States is the true “empire of lies”, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Saturday, lashing out at…
Imran Khan & Shah Mahmood Qureshi guilty in cipher case: FIA
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan‘s top investigation agency on Saturday declared former prime minister Imran Khan and ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi guilty…