J.D. Vance speaks to the press on 10 April before his expected departure to Pakistan

World

Stakeholders harden position on Iran, suspense alive ahead of Islamabad talks

File photo of Pavel Popov

World

Ex-Russia deputy defence minister gets 19 years in Patriot Park corruption case

Soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint ahead of the Iran-US negotiations in Islamabad, 10 April

World

Vance heads to Iran talks as US scrambles to contain fallout from its own war

Residents use a wheelbarrow to salvage belongings amid flood devastation in Afghanistan.

World

Floods affect tens of thousands across Afghanistan: UN

Israeli strikes kill hundreds in Beirut

World

Lebanon hospitals overwhelmed after sudden Israeli strikes kill hundreds

Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif.

World

Pak defence minister faces global outrage, condemnation over Israel remarks

Iranian foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi.

World

Iranian FM warns US against letting Benjamin Netanyahu ‘kill diplomacy’

Serena Hotel in Islamabad is the venue for the peace talks

World

Doubts and distrust over Islamabad talks as Strait of Hormuz is mined

File photo of Lebanon

World

Israel strikes on Lebanon strain ceasefire as Iran calls talks ‘meaningless’

A group of Punjabi Sikh women leave Delhifor Pakistan by road

Nation

Sikh devotees depart from Delhi for Baisakhi pilgrimage to Pakistan

Shiite Muslims hold a portrait of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Baghdad, Iraq, 13 March

World

Iran says uranium enrichment right ‘necessary’ for ceasefire talks with US

IUCN officials said the findings should prompt urgent global action

Environment

Emperor penguin, Antarctic fur seal now officially endangered: IUCN Red List

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem

World

Hezbollah chief’s aide killed in Beirut strike; militants retaliate with rockets at Israel