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This representative image shows a nuclear facility in Israel. — AFP/File Iran’s minister terms Israeli documents “treasure trove”. Says documents include details on Israel’s nuclear sites. No immediate Israeli response to Iran’s claim.  DUBAI: Sensitive Israeli documents obtained by Tehran should be unveiled soon, Minister of Intelligence Esmail Khatib told state TV on Sunday, describing them as a “treasure trove” …

 A man cools off with a water hose during a hot summer day in Hyderabad, May 24, 2024. — Reuters LAHORE: For the second consecutive year, April in Pakistan arrived not with a bloom, but with blistering heat. Across large swathes of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan, temperatures soared past 40 degrees Celsius, weeks before the official onset of summer. “In …

Employees at a fuel station wait for customers in Islamabad. — AFP/File The federal government has increased the petrol price by only Re1 for the next 15 days, raising it to Rs253.63 per litre amid mostly tame global oil markets. The Finance Division issued a notification stating that the new petrol price will take effect from June 1. — Reporter …

A satellite image shows Blatten after a glacier in the Swiss Alps partially collapsed and tumbled onto the village, in Blatten, Switzerland May 29, 2025. — Reuters Water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that this week buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland has sparked warnings that further evacuations may be needed amid the risk …

Emergency workers extinguish fire in the debris of a private house that was destroyed in a Russian rocket strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Markhalivka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, May 25, 2025. — Reuters  Russia fired “355 Shahed-type drones”, nine cruise missiles. Enhanced missile range for Ukraine would be dangerous: Kremlin. Trump calls Putin “crazy” in rare rebuke of Russian leader. …

Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser of the interim Government, Muhammad Yunus, speaks during a joint press conference with Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia, in Dhaka on October 4, 2024.—AFP  Public sector protests over new ordinance and wage demands. Political pressure rises amid election timeline disputes. Yunus holds talks with major political parties. Primary school teachers in Bangladesh joined public sector workers …

French President Emmanuel Macron stands near the door of a plane, as a hand appears and pushes his face away, in Hanoi, Vietnam, May 25, 2025, in this screengrab from a video. — Reuters  HANOI: French President Emmanuel Macron was reportedly slapped by his wife Brigitte, as per some sections of the media, as the two arrived in Vietnam at …

This handout photo taken on May 14, 2025 and released on May 23 by conservation group Rising Phoenix shows an adult banteng, a type of wild cattle native to Southeast Asia, in Siem Pang in northeastern Cambodia, during a herding operation to relocate members of the endangered species. — AFP A helicopter successfully herded 16 critically endangered banteng onto a …

Abolfazl Saber Mokhtari, 54, breaks his own record for holding most spoons on his body — Guinness World Records Iranian man Abolfazl Saber Mokhtari broke his own Guinness World Records by balancing 96 spoons on his body. While breaking record for the third time, he said, “I can stick any object to my skin.” Abolfazl first claimed the record for …

US President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the White House in Washington, D.C., US, February 28, 2025. — Reuters WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump turned down the lights in the Oval Office on Wednesday and made South African President Cyril Ramaphosa the target of his latest geopolitical ambush of a foreign leader in front of television …