Iran issues 'strong protest' after Berlin decision to close consulates in Germany

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the country will close the three Iranian consulates on its soil in response to the execution in Iran of German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Wo5b2Hd ...

How does the U.S. electoral college system work? | Explained

How is an electoral college formed? What is its role in the U.S. presidential election? Who are ‘faithless’ electors? Which is the state with the largest number of electoral votes? from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/tcms3li ...

Israeli airstrikes pound the eastern Lebanon city of Baalbek

Hours earlier, the Israeli military issued an evacuation warning for residents in the entire city from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/3w1PM0B ...

Morning Digest: Troop disengagement completed at Depsang and Demchok in eastern Ladakh; At least 95 people die in devastating flash floods in Spain, and more

Here is a select list of stories to start the day from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/iDC5F2x ...

Donald Trump tries to win over Latino voters; suggests Biden-Harris rift

Donald Trump tries to win over Latino voters in Pennsylvania after controversy over ‘garbage’ remark by speaker at rally. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/vrEfH6c ...

Morning Digest: No clarity yet on sharing of seats in Mahayuti, MVA for Maharashtra polls; Mobile app for birth and death registration launched, and more

Here is a select list of stories to start the day from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/vSsPC7e ...

Sheikh Hasina trying to provoke armed rebellion, says BNP

BNP leaders say that in the audio leaked on Sunday, the former PM can be heard instructing the Jubo League and Chhatra League to prepare for armed resistance from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/cbSysau ...

What is clicking on the U.S. presidential campaign trail

Kamala Harris’s campaign is leveraged on a diminishing statistic while Donald Trump’s is the opposite from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Ng5KEFf ...

Morning Digest: India, Spain condemn attacks on U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon; Israel passes two laws to restrict the work of UN agency’s operations in Gaza, and more

Here is a select list of stories to start the day from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/JH3M7Pk ...

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif to visit Saudi Arabia on October 29

Mr. Shehbaz is likely to hold bilateral talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other senior officials. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/nvTC4He ...

Israel passes two laws to restrict the work of UN agency’s operations in Gaza

Israel’s parliament has passed two laws that severely restrict the U.N. agency responsible for distributing aid in Gaza from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/1n7PzFJ ...

Microsoft fires employees who organised vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza

Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorised vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s yearlong war with Hamas from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/WHT4D23 ...

Secretive Iranian military bases damaged in Israeli attack, satellite image shows

Some of the buildings damaged sat in Iran's Parchin military base, where the International Atomic Energy Agency suspects Iran in the past conducted tests of high explosives that could trigger a nuclear weapon from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/cMLSt40 ...

Morning Digest: TVK president Vijay declares his party will fight against sectarian forces; MVA names 259 candidates, Mahayuti 235 for Maharashtra Assembly elections, and more

Here is a select list of stories to start the day from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ulXw2ZI ...

Russian forces thwart attempted cross-border assault from Ukraine, official says

A local official says Russian forces have thwarted an attempt at another cross-border incursion from Ukraine into southwestern Russia from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/wqbJfgE ...

Pashtun Tahafuz Movement: Dissent in the mountains

Pakistani authorities have banned the movement that has organised tens of thousands of Pashtuns over the years, demanding protection from persecution from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/MYWKqLk ...

Georgia’s ruling party leads election race but it’s unclear who will form next government

Georgian Dream says it will ban opposition parties Opposition backs plan for reforms required by the EU from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/bgEmayl ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah to inaugurate new terminal at India-Bangladesh border on October 26 as cargo movement resumes

Home Minister Amit Shah to inaugurate friendship gate at Petrapole border in West Bengal from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/oyrDOKb ...

Israel strikes Iran LIVE updates: Military targets in Tehran attacked as West Asia crisis escalates

West Asia has been on edge in anticipation of Israeli retaliation for a ballistic-missile barrage carried out by Iran on October 1 from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/lLIwEoF ...

Neck and neck: On the U.S. presidential election

Trump and Harris offer U.S. voters vastly different choices  from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Uh5jMa3 ...

Chinese hackers targeted phones used by Trump and Vance, New York Times reports

Investigators are working to determine what communications, if any, were taken. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ykDa5gF ...

Pope Francis denounces a world ’losing its heart’ in 4th encyclical of his papacy

In “Dilexit Nos,” the pontiff did not cite specific examples of global turmoil in the 220-paragraph document issued in eight languages, although he frequently refers to conflicts from Ukraine to Gaza in homilies, weekly prayers and global travels. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/TkEV0dU ...

President Muizzu to take 50% salary cut amid worsening financial crunch in the Maldives

The move was announced as part of special measures in his government’s ‘economic reform agenda’  from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/DLoXfaU ...

Turkiye strikes Kurdish militant targets in Iraq and Syria following deadly attack on defence company

The defence ministry said more than 30 targets were “destroyed” in the aerial offensive from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/EKBiz5S ...

Strike on Iran will show the world Israel’s might: Defence chief Yoav Gallant

Israel has been planning a response to a ballistic-missile barrage carried out by Iran on October 1 from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/S7DnKeT ...

Trump’s toxic politics of misinformation

The danger of Donald Trump’s leadership lies in his willingness to exploit and manipulate information to achieve his goals from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/SA7zipQ ...

U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan defends Biden’s industrial policy

Mr. Sullivan’s remarks are in response to charges of protectionism levelled against administration’s Inflation Reduction Act; he insists that the U.S. is not walking away from international trade and investment; if the U.S. and its partners did not invest, China would dominate supply chains, he adds from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/JguhTI7 ...

Tension grips Bangladesh as protesters demand removal of President over comments on Hasina's resignation

Protesters demand President Shahabuddin’s resignation over comments on ex-PM Hasina, sparking clashes and political turmoil in Bangladesh from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/4KC0Nql ...

Israel claims to have killed Hezbollah official expected to be group’s next leader

Israel said Hashem Safieddine was killed by an airstrike in early October in a southern suburb of Beirut. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/7l94fQN ...

India ready to provide all possible assistance for peace in Ukraine: PM Modi in Kazan

He also met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and called for the de-escalation of tension in the West Asian region from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/KvgxbrX ...

Four killed in Israeli strike on Beirut neighborhood near government hospital

Israel said it planned to carry out more strikes in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-run financial institution from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/HBx8kwj ...

Hamas to be led by ruling committee, no chief to succeed Sinwar

The committee is made up of representatives of the two Palestinian territories and the diaspora, namely Khalil al-Hayya for Gaza, Zaher Jabarin for the West Bank and Khaled Meshaal for Palestinians abroad. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/UkWsg7x ...

India’s envoy to Canada slams PM Trudeau for ‘destroying’ bilateral ties

Sanjay Kumar Verma said that Justin Trudeau's allegations over Hardeep Nijjar's killing were based on intelligence inputs rather than concrete evidence from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/qR7kNHr ...

Cuba gets some electricity back after major power outage left millions in the dark

Cuba’s government says some electricity has been restored on the island after one of the country’s major power plants failed and left millions without electricity for two days from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/HlewVtq ...

‘Grave mistake,’ says Netanyahu after attempt on his life; Iran alleges Hezbollah behind drone attack

The Israeli Prime Minister’s office said a drone was launched toward his residence in Caesarea but he and his wife were not home at the time from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/XgC2vYK ...

UNIFIL: Peacekeepers under attack

Established by a 1978 UN mandate, the peacekeeping troops are today caught between the Israeli Army and Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/wc74J2K ...

Saudi Arabia ‘comfortable’ venue for talks to end Ukraine war: Vladimir Putin

The Russian President said the main hurdle on the way for the peace process is the attitude of Ukraine that has issued a decree against holding dialogue with Russia to end the conflict from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/GlVc4dq ...

Judge unseals heavily redacted trove of evidence in Trump's 2020 election interference case

The redacted files are believed to include things like transcripts of grand jury testimony, which remain under wraps because of grand jury secrecy rules from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/UVa7uRp ...

Living with sirens and uncertainty in Ukraine

After Russia invaded Ukraine, the Indian government evacuated around 22,500 Indian nationals, most of them students. Some of these students managed to move to other countries and pursue their courses. But others, who could not get transfers easily, were compelled to return to Ukraine. Dinakar Peri reports on Indian students and businesspersons who endure power cuts and sirens...

China lodges protest with India over Taiwan's office in Mumbai

‘There is but one China in the world and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory,’ said China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning  from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ZhmPlAJ ...

Israel's Netanyahu says Sinwar killing 'beginning of the end' of Gaza war

U.S. President Joe Biden, reacting to Yahya Sinwar’s death said: “This is a good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world” from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/zJSepbV ...

Yahya Sinwar, architect of the October 7 attack on Israel

A fluent Hebrew speaker, Sinwar was driven by his deep antipathy towards the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and deep commitment to the Islamist ideology of Hamas from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/FJl7Saj ...

Saudi cartoonist gets 23-year prison sentence: rights group

The case against Mohammed al-Hazza, 48, adds to concerns about freedom of expression under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as Saudi Arabia — the world’s largest crude oil exporter — seeks to open up to tourists and investors after years of isolation from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/dBxPkb4 ...

Did not want to blow up India ties: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Mr. Trudeau told a federal commission that is examining foreign interference that it was a “massive mistake if India had done it”, adding that his government had “reasons to believe that India did it” from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/HETuMwZ ...

Israeli strikes kill 25 in Lebanon, including in a town with a dark history of civilian deaths

Officials say Israeli airstrikes have pounded areas across Lebanon, killing at least 25 people, including more than a dozen in a southern town where Israeli bombardments in previous conflicts are seared into local memory from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/lPJT9GA ...

Netanyahu vows ‘no ceasefire’ in Lebanon after Hezbollah threats

Mr. Netanyahu’s comments came as the United States ramped up pressure over Israel’s conduct of the wars in Lebanon and Gaza from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/n8CNtDR ...

Consensus across all establishments in Pakistan for healthy ties with India, says former Pakistan PM Kakar

Senator seen as close to Islamabad’s military establishment says Jaishankar’s visit is an opportunity to explore sentiments on both sides from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/hxK0vTX ...

Attacks against UN peacekeepers may constitute a war crime, UNSG cautions

U.S. Secretary of Defence Lloyd J. Austin, in a telephonic conversation with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant reiterated the importance of ensuring the safety and security of UNIFIL forces and Lebanese armed forces from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/8b5K06S ...

Sean Diddy Combs accused of sexual assault by six people in new lawsuits

The accusers are part of what their lawyers say is a group of more than 100 alleged victims who are in the process of taking legal action against Diddy in the wake of his sex trafficking arrest last month from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/TRbHEOe ...

Indian probe team in Pannun assassination plot to travel to Washington on Oct 15: U.S.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced charges in November 2023 alleging that an Indian government employee directed a plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/vpk7Vm4 ...

Bangladeshi Hindus defy attack worries to celebrate festival

Some Bangladeshi Hindus and Hindu temples were targeted in attacks in the chaos that followed, because some were perceived to have supported Sheikh Hasina’s now toppled government from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/0Iu5DCT ...

Israeli tanks destroy gate at Lebanon U.N. peace mission

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, in a video message to U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, said the “time has come” to withdraw UNIFIL from “Hezbollah strongholds and from the combat zones”. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/7EY9yos ...

Nihon Hidankyo | No more ‘hibakusha’

The Nobel Peace Prize for the organisation of the survivors of America’s nuclear bomb attacks on Japan is a recognition of its evocative push for abolishing nuclear weapons from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/3O05ipx ...

TikTok was aware of risks kids and teens face on its platform, legal document alleges

TikTok is also facing another lawsuit from the Department of Justice and is itself suing the Justice Department over a federal law that could ban it in the U.S. by mid-January from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/vnoiVZK ...

Fourteen years in prison for U.S. soldier who sought to aid IS

According to court documents, Bridges, who joined the army in 2019, went from consuming online jihadist propaganda to trying to provide information to aid IS, which once held swathes of Iraq and Syria from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Zyq8j4H ...

Israeli forces kill 2 Lebanese soldiers and injure 2 U.N. peacekeepers in separate strikes

The incidents entangling both Lebanon's official Army and the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon raised alarm as Israel broadens its campaign against Hezbollah from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/NB8Cc29 ...

Zelensky denies ceasefire with Russia under discussion on trip

Mr. Zelensky has rejected any peace plan that involves ceding land to Russia, arguing Moscow must first withdraw all troops from Ukrainian territory from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/SMW9E63 ...

Durga puja in Bangladesh is a test of Yunus’ pledge to protect Hindus

The number of Durga puja committees in Bangladesh has decreased this year, after the recent political upheavals. A section of the political class of Bangladesh says that the dip in the Durga puja pandals has to do with the recent floods, as many puja committees have prioritised flood relief over the festival from World News: Top International Headlines...

U.S. calls out Israel at U.N. for 'catastrophic conditions' in Gaza

These catastrophic conditions were predicted months ago, yet they have still not been addressed. That must change, and now, says U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/gyLUDNf ...

Trump praises Modi, says he is the ‘nicest human being’ but can also be a ‘total killer’

In an episode of the Flagrant podcast, the former U.S. President does an impression of the Prime Minister from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/cNXQh4M ...

Sri Lanka orders new probe into Easter Sunday bombings

Ms. Herath's announcement came days after President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dismissed Sri Lanka's intelligence chief, Suresh Sallay from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/WNCsXYq ...

Israel expands offensive against Hezbollah in south Lebanon

Both Hamas and Hezbollah have pledged no let-up against Israel, and on Tuesday Hezbollah's deputy chief Naim Qassem said the group would make it impossible for Israelis to return to the north from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/bLJCUWg ...

Ukraine says hit Crimea oil terminal, Russia claims gains

Russian-installed authorities in Crimea said a fire had broken out at an oil facility in the Black Sea port town of some 70,000 people and that there were no casualties from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/wx0AnHL ...

Lebanon says Israeli strike killed 10 firefighters in country's south

Tragic Israeli strike kills 10 firefighters in Lebanon, with more casualties feared as rescue efforts continue from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/5GV2lI9 ...

Army deployed in Islamabad amid protests by ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s party

Mobilised under Article 245 of the Constitution, the Army would remain in the city from October 5-17 to maintain law and order for the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/BdbmpD7 ...

‘Shame’ on Emmanuel Macron for urging halt to arms supply to Israel, says Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was fighting a war on several fronts against groups backed by arch-foe Iran. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/pu7WcPq ...

Mauritius to hold legislative election on November 10

The announcement came just after Mauritius secured a long-awaited deal with Britain to regain control of the Chagos Islands from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/9FX32Ce ...

In Gaza, it is a battle for survival

Essential supplies, such as oxygen concentrators, surgical equipment, and generators, have been delayed or blocked by Israeli authorities repeatedly from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/IH8nZAu ...

Israeli airstrikes rock southern suburbs of Beirut, cut off key crossing into Syria

The overnight blasts in Beirut's southern suburbs sent huge plumes of smoke and flames into the night sky and shook buildings kilometres away in the Lebanese capital from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/zTQeOj2 ...

EU states must recognise gender changes obtained in bloc: court

The case was sparked when a Romanian transgender man challenged Romanian authorities refusal to issue him a new birth certificate reflecting the UK's recognition of his male gender from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/1LqX3Eu ...

Vietnam condemns China for assault on its fishermen in the disputed South China Sea

The fishermen first reported the assault near the Chinese-controlled islands by radio on Sunday but did not identify the attackers. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/NodjI5q ...

Iran military adviser in Syria dies days after Israeli strike: media

from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/vArNQIJ ...

U.S. President Biden says 'discussing' possible Israeli strikes on Iran oil facilities

Biden said that he was not expecting Israel to launch any retaliation for Tehran's missile barrage on Israel before Thursday at least. from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Je6vUps ...

U.S. prosecutors detail evidence in Donald Trump election subversion case

Prosecutors laid out details including an allegation that a White House staffer heard Trump tell family members that it did not matter if he won or lost the election "You still have to fight like hell." from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/6xVvDek ...

Eight Israel soldiers dead as Hezbollah claims to repel incursion

Hezbollah says it forced Israeli soldiers to retreat, targeted an Israeli unit with explosives and destroyed three Merkava tanks; Israeli Army says it staged two brief incursions into Lebanon, warning residents to evacuate more than 20 areas; U.S. President Joe Biden rules out support to any Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites; Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian warns of...

Trump rallies in Wisconsin's critical Democratic stronghold ahead of vice-presidential debate

from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/zXgjV6s ...

Four killed in shooting in Tel Aviv neighbourhood Jaffa; two attackers ‘neutralised’, say Israeli police

There are seven injured individuals in varying degrees of severity, police said quoting medical sources from World News: Top International Headlines Today | The Hindu https://ift.tt/hSgsuNj ...

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