Pune: Eighty-four MBA students from a Pune-based institute were stranded in Dubai after airspace closures triggered by the conflict in West Asia, the institute said on Sunday.The students of the Indira School of Business Studies (ISBS) had gone to Dubai as part of an annual five-day study tour. They were safe and shifted to a …
Paris [France]: The United Nations Security Council has called an emergency meeting at 10 pm CET to address the situation in Iran and the Middle East, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Saturday.In a post on X, Jean-Noël Barrot said, "At the request of France, the United Nations Security Council will meet tonight at …
Tehran [Iran]: Hours after US and Israel struck deep into Iran with the goal of displacing the Islamic regime, speculation about the whereabouts and wellbeing of Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei.Israeli TV reported that their assessment suggested that the supreme leader has likely been killed in the strike.However, the Iranian's issued a speedy denial. Representative …
Paris : Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei, a pillar of its theocratic system since the Islamic revolution, has seen off a succession of crises throughout his rule with a mixture of repression and strategic manoeuvring but now could be facing his biggest challenge. The United States and Israel launched strikes against targets in Iranian cities …
Paris : Countries in the Middle East and around the world were watching with bated breath after the United States and Israel carried out long-feared strikes on Iran on Saturday. - Trump: 'annihilate' - US President Donald Trump vowed that the strikes would cripple Iran's military and urged Iranians to rise up against the Islamic …
Islamabad : Pakistan’s military, backed by artillery and air power, struck more military installations deep inside Afghanistan overnight and into early Saturday, killing over 300 Afghan forces in dayslong border clashes, a government spokesman and officials said. Pakistani and Afghan forces have targeted each other’s military positions since Thursday night, when Afghanistan launched a cross-border …
CHAPPAQUA, United States: Former US president Bill Clinton denied wrongdoing Friday to a congressional panel probing his links to Jeffrey Epstein, as Democrats seek to shift focus onto Donald Trump's own ties to the notorious sex offender. Clinton features prominently throughout the Epstein files, but he insists that he broke ties well before the disgraced …
WASHINGTON : President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. is in talks with Havana and raised the possibility of a “friendly takeover of Cuba” without offering any details on what he meant. Speaking to reporters outside the White House as he left for a trip to Texas, Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio …
Singapore : An Indian-origin Malaysian man was sentenced in Singapore to 12 years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane for raping a domestic worker outside a train station after tricking her into thinking that he was a police officer. Sharveen Chetty, 48, pleaded guilty on February 4 to one charge of raping the 35-year-old …
Researchers say seven seal pups have tested positive for an avian flu virus at California’s Año Nuevo State Park and several more are showing signs of the illness. The outbreak has prompted park officials to cancel the park’s popular seal-watching tours for the remainder of the seal breeding season. Researchers with University of California-Santa Cruz …
