PARIS: Saudi Arabia is to use French expertise to set up a national opera and orchestra under an agreement signed yesterday that underlined the modernising…

Having taken a serious note of BJP’s shocking defeat in by elections and the recent resentment shown by four Dalit MPs against the state leadership, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is learnt to have expressed his concern to chief minister Yogi Adityanath over the state of affairs in Uttar Pradesh,…

LONDON: Facebook members will find out from 17:00 BST whether they are among the 87 million potential users whose data was shared with Cambridge Analytica, reports BBC. Every account holder will receive one of two notices informing them whether their data was breached. The tech giant said people will…

BEIJING: China warned yesterday that trade talks with the United States were “impossible” under current conditions after President Donald Trump reassured markets by suggesting that the dispute could be resolved, reports AFP. The two sides have announced tit-for-tat tariffs and threatened…

BUDAPEST: Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban has claimed a landslide victory in Sunday's general election, reports BBC. The 54-year-old…

TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that the United States would regret withdrawing from the nuclear deal, and that Iran would respond in “less than a week” if that happened, reports AFP. “We will not be the first to violate the accord but they should definitely…