Washington DC/IBNS: US President Donald Trump has announced a phased imposition of tariffs on imported generic medicines, culminating in a 200 percent duty, in a move that is likely to impact several countries, including India.
International students studying in the United States, including thousands from India, are being advised by universities to return to the country before September 15, when a major overhaul of US immigration rules for student and exchange visas comes into force.
At least three Pakistani excise officials were kidnapped at gunpoint after unidentified armed men attacked a departmental checkpoint on the Dalbandin–Taftan Highway in Balochistan's Chagai district, media reports said on Tuesday.
A newly formed armed group calling itself Sepahiyan-e Mihan, or Soldiers of the Homeland, has drawn attention after briefly taking control of the Yaftali Sufla district headquarters in Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan province before Taliban forces regained control within hours.
At least two people were killed after Russian aerial bomb strikes hit Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as rescue teams rushed to the scene.
Russian attacks and drone strikes killed at least two children and injured dozens more across Ukraine over recent days while severely damaging three critical aid warehouses, UN agencies reported on Monday.
Nearly 100 US service members have been injured since the latest round of conflict with Iran began on July 7, a Pentagon official confirmed, as American forces carried out a tenth consecutive night of strikes on Iranian military targets.
Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney congratulated Britain's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Monday, pledging closer cooperation between the two allies.
London: Andy Burnham became Britain's new prime minister on Monday after accepting King Charles III's invitation to form a government, pledging to restore political stability, decentralise power and launch what he called the country's biggest reforms in four decades.
Riots broke out in parts of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, late Sunday night after Argentina's 1-0 defeat to Spain in the FIFA World Cup final, prompting police to detain several people, according to media reports.
US Vice President JD Vance on Monday announced the birth of his fourth child with his wife Usha Vance.
A US service member was killed in northern Iraq during an operation involving unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Sunday.
Lahore police have arrested a man after gunfire was fired from a vehicle near the car of Pakistan's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar, media reports said on Sunday.
Social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate have been arrested in the United States after British prosecutors brought 38 additional criminal charges against them, the UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced.
Iran has suspended its commitments under the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the United States, accusing Washington of repeatedly violating the agreement amid the ongoing military confrontation, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi said.
Russia launched one of its largest ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv overnight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday, claiming the assault killed at least one person and injured 16 others.
The United States launched a fresh round of strikes against Iran on Sunday, escalating the conflict after two American soldiers were killed in an Iranian missile and drone attack in Jordan, according to the US military.
Two American service members were killed and another remains missing after Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks targeted Jordan on Friday, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed in a statement issued on Saturday.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Friday announced that it has received enough petitions to meet the H-1B visa cap for the 2027 fiscal year.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has warned Middle Eastern countries hosting US military bases to prepare for retaliation, saying they share responsibility for allowing their territory to be used as launch pads for attacks on Iran, further escalating tensions across the region.
The United States military has carried out its seventh consecutive day of strikes on Iran, with tensions continuing to escalate across the Middle East.
Ottawa: Canada announced C$12.1 million in funding for projects in Mexico and other Latin American countries on Friday following talks between Foreign Minister Anita Anand and Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Roberto Velasco.
Iran on Friday claimed it had launched drone strikes targeting US-allied countries, including Kuwait and Bahrain, as the United States continued its sixth consecutive day of military operations against the Islamic Republic, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.
The United States said it carried out strikes on Iranian infrastructure, including three bridges, as hostilities between Washington and Tehran intensified for the sixth consecutive day.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday renewed his allegations that China interfered in the 2020 US presidential election, accusing Beijing of orchestrating the "largest compromise" of American election data.
Ottawa: Canada has signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, joining dozens of countries in a global framework aimed at strengthening international cooperation to investigate and combat cybercrime and other technology-enabled offences.
Ottawa: Canada will invest nearly C$2 billion over four years in a new partnership with Ontario-based General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada to build 190 additional Armoured Combat Support Vehicles, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday.
More than 500 people are feared dead after two boats carrying members of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya community reportedly capsized in the Bay of Bengal, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
In a major shift to his long-running philanthropic strategy, billionaire investor Warren Buffett has ended donations to the Gates Foundation after nearly two decades, following renewed scrutiny surrounding Bill Gates' past interactions with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
A 40-year-old Hindu temple in the UK city of Peterborough is battling to save its home after the local council sold the complex housing the shrine to an Islamic organisation that plans to build a mosque and community centre on the site.
