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CAIRO:  The United States said "very serious" negotiations were taking place on a new Gaza ceasefire and release of more Israeli hostages but prospects for a deal remained uncertain as Hamas…

SAN FRANCISCO: Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was restored globally early Thursday, with over 77,000 US users facing issues at the peak of the outage. Users in…

REYKJAVIK: A volcano erupted late on Monday in southwest Iceland, spewing lava and smoke across a wide area after weeks of intense earthquake activity, the country's Meteorological Office…

BEIJING: A magnitude-6.2 earthquake jolted a remote and mountainous region on the northern edge of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau just before midnight on Monday, killing at least 118 people and…

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Monday will undertake a one-day visit to Kuwait. The prime minister will convey to the Royal Family, the government and the…

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis again suggested Israel was using "terrorism" tactics in Gaza, deploring the reported killing by the Israeli military of two Christian women who had taken refuge in…

JERUSALEM: Israeli forces launched fresh attacks throughout the night across the Gaza Strip as the United Nations Security Council looked set to vote on a demand that Israel and Hamas allow…

WILMINGTON: President Joe Biden was safe on Sunday night after a car collided with a motorcade SUV that was part of the president's security detail. Biden and First Lady Jill Biden had…

LOS ANGELES: "Friends" star Matthew Perry died from the "acute effects" of the powerful sedative ketamine that, combined with other factors, caused the actor to lose consciousness and drown…

LAHORE: Ahmed Shehzad has retired from the Pakistan Super League (PSL) in a blaze of fury after he was not picked in the draft for the ninth edition of the tournament. In a post, he…

NEW DELHI: Indian police have filed terrorism charges against four people in connection with a security breach in parliament in which a man jumped into the chamber, shouted slogans and set…

NEW YORK: Hundreds of Yazidi-Americans, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, filed a lawsuit against French cement maker Lafarge, accusing it of conspiring to provide material…

BRUSSELS: European Union leaders agreed to open membership talks with Ukraine even as it continues to fight Russia's invasion, but they could not agree on a 50 billion euro package of…

GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Thursday urged governments to apply tobacco-style controls to vapes, saying they are getting new users hooked on nicotine. Analysts and investors…

CANNES: Greta Gerwig, who packed theatres this summer with the pink-themed movie phenomenon "Barbie", was named as jury president for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. "This is an obvious…