WORLD

Deir al-Balah:  Israel on Saturday rescued four hostages who were kidnapped in the Hamas-led attack on October 7, the largest such recovery operation since the war began. At least 94 Palestinians including

New Delhi:  India on Saturday thanked China for congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his election victory and said it would continue to make efforts for normalisation of the bilateral ties based

Copenhagen:  A man reportedly assaulted Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in central Copenhagen, local media said. Police confirmed “there has been an incident with the prime minister” and that a 39-year-old man

Moscow: Russia has put former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on its wanted list, Russian state media reported, citing the Interior Ministry’s database. Russian state news agency Tass said Tymoshenko was listed

Ottawa: Promotion of violence is never acceptable in Canada, a minister has said after posters depicting the assassination of India’s former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi were reportedly put up by Khalistan supporters

Jerusalem: Overnight Israeli airstrikes in central Gaza killed at least 18 people, including children, a day after 33 were killed at a United Nations-run school sheltering displaced Palestinian families, health officials said

Dubai:  At least nine Yemeni employees of United Nations agencies have been detained by Yemen’s Houthi rebels under unclear circumstances, authorities said Friday, as the rebels face increasing financial pressure and airstrikes

Copenhagen: Swedish police detained 19 pro-Palestinian activists who barricaded themselves in the country’s main technical education and research university on Friday. After two hours, police carried out the masked activists from the

New Delhi:  Taiwan on Friday rejected China’s outrage over a “cordial” exchange of messages between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te describing Beijing’s reaction as “utterly unjustified”. The comments

Islamabad/Beijing:  Pakistan and China on Friday vowed to protect the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) from its “detractors and adversaries”, as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met his Chinese counterpart Li Qiang and assured