Pakistan hopes an agreement over the Strait of Hormuz will lead to the United States and Iran resuming talks

Iran warns Gulf states US strikes will trigger attacks on them

The hostility underscored a widening gulf between legacy networks and a growing ecosystem of independent digital outlets that many young Indians increasingly turn to for news

Rukhsar Ahmed is reportedly affiliated to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the party of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. He served as minister in various governments from 2006 until he lost his seat in 2021

Any control over strait would be major concession to Iran

An armed man was arrested at President Donald Trump’s golf course in Los Angeles two days before the US leader’s visit on Tuesday, the local sheriff’s office said.

The United States has revoked the visa of Brazil’s ambassador, a State Department official said Tuesday, in a mounting diplomatic row just months before elections in Latin America’s largest nation.

A powerful El Niño weather event could push an additional nearly 49 million people into acute food insecurity across some of the world’s most vulnerable regions by the end of next year, the World Food Programme (WFP) said yesterday.

Meta Platforms’ Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to the Indian government over child sexual abuse material on the company’s platforms and for operational errors, local television channels reported yesterday.

Malaysia will not send 5,000 refugees back to Myanmar if authorities conclude their lives would be at risk, a government spokesman said Wednesday, while preparations continued for the potential repatriation.

The Democratic Party’s progressive wing scored a high-profile victory when Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s US Senate primary, US media projected yesterday, giving its anti-establishment message a boost ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Russia fired dozens of ballistic missiles at Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and the surrounding region yesterday, killing at least 17 people and destroying warehouses and logistics centres of major retailers, Ukrainian officials said.

US President Donald Trump said his administration had “very good discussions” with Iran during all-day negotiations on Tuesday, fuelling expectations of an imminent end to the five-month conflict.

Taiwan’s largest military drills of the year began yesterday as the island democracy attempts to prepare its population for a potential Chinese invasion.

New observations of some of Neptune’s moons and rings are providing evidence of a catastrophe that occurred billions of years ago around the solar system’s outermost planet in which a Pluto-sized interloper caused a celestial demolition derby.

A group of eight South Korean student protestors were in detention and under investigation yesterday after trying to break into a US air base, police and the American military said.

However, US Treasury maintains its sanctions against a man previously identified as the company's owner, Basheer Abdulkadhim Alwan al-Shabbani

Beijing says the measures respond to US tariffs, forced labour sanctions and national security restrictions

Tokyo is moving ‘to formulate the possession of the capability for preemptive attack’, Kim Yo Jong says

There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage