
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that whoever reaches a breakthrough in developing artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world.
Russia has invited the Kurdish-led authorities in northern Syria to its proposed congress of Syria’s various ethnic groups, a senior Kurdish official told…
BERLIN (AP) ? German authorities say they have arrested a Syrian citizen for allegedly planning a bomb attack with high explosives in…
Islamabad: An accountability court on Tuesday ordered the freezing of company shares owned by the two sons of former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz…
Washington, Oct 31: NASA on Monday launched a sounding rocket to study the intergalactic medium pervading the dark voids between galaxies in our universe.…
The Consulate General of India in Milan on Monday issued an advisory to Indianstudents and asked them not to panic. ...…
BEIJING (AP) — President Xi Jinping has promised to open China’s economy wider during a meeting with American business leaders ahead of a visit by U.S.…
Indoor air pollution caused 1.24 lakh premature deaths in India in 2015, more than the emissions from coal power plants or other industrial sources, a report…
NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said situation in the state has improved a lot as violence has come down significantly.…
President Donald Trump has spoken out about revelations tying Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign to a dossier of allegations about his ties to Russia. On…
Kisumu — Kenyan police clashed with opposition supporters where burning barricades and gangs of youths prevented voting in some towns in an election re-run,…
Iraqi forces on Thursday started an offensive to “liberate” the western towns of al-Qaim and Rawa, Islamic State‘s last stronghold in the country, near the…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A train collided with a military vehicle at a railroad crossing in southern Finland early Thursday, killing at least four people,…
Three members of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) were killed in an anti-Maoist operation of the security forces in Rajnandgoan district of…
The Kremlin‘s transcript of a speech by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Crimea edited his text to replace the word “annexation.” Russia‘s annexation…
NEW DELHI: India is shipping its first consignment of wheat to Afghanistan by sea through Iran‘s strategic ChahbaharPort, launching a trade route bypassing…
At least two suspected militants were killed in a clash with the Aman Lashkar, a pro-government tribal militia, near the Pak-Afghan border in Khyber Agency on…
Heathrow Airport’s secret security planning has been revealed in files on a memory stick found in a London street. The documents outline routes and safeguards…
World News Sun, 29 Oct 2017 AFPWashington: Cuba has hit out at allegations that mysterious sonic attacks made American diplomats ill in the country, dismissing…
Just two days after India expanded its search operation to find the 39 Indians, who have been missing in Iraq since 2014, Minister of State for External Affairs…
HANOI: The 10-year-old daughter of Vietnamese dissident blogger “MotherMushroom” has written a letter calling on the US First Lady to push for her…
In May, former Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos was injured when a booby-trapped package exploded in his car in central Athens ……
New York, Oct 28 (IANS) Researchers have found that the Zika virus is transmitted from mother to a foetus by infected cells that will later go on to develop…
Yangon [Myanmar], October 28 (ANI): Myanmar Police has detained a Singaporean and a Malaysian journalist for flying a drone over a…
Nine crew members have been dismissed from HMS Vigilant (Picture: PA) The Navyhas dismissed nine sailors after they tested positive for cocaine while on duty.…
The Donald Trump administration in the US looks forward over the next weeks and months to see the practical steps that Pakistan takes against terrorist groups…
Britain urged the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on Syria after a UN-led investigation found that government forces were responsible for…
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ” U.S. DefenseSecretary Jim Mattis said Saturday the threat of nuclear missile attack by North Korea is accelerating.In remarks in…
Britain has blamed North Korea for a ransomware attack this year that a new report revealed affected a third of Englishhospitals and could have been prevented…
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putinhas taken part in major military drills of Russian nuclear forces and personally directed the test-firing of four…
Spain’s prime minister has urged the Senate to grant special constitutional measures that would allow the central government to take control of Catalonia’s…
WASHINGTON (AP) ” The Trumpadministration has given Congress a list of Russian officials who may soon become off-limits to anyone who wants to avoid U.S.…
PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) — On his first visit to the tense but eerily quiet frontier between North and South Korea as U.S.secretary of defense, Jim Mattis…
United Nations: The UN Security Counciltoday urged the Iraqi government and regional leaders in Kurdistan to set a timetable for talks to end a crisis…
Nairobi – Results of Kenya‘s presidential election re-run started to trickle in on Friday, with early estimates of the turnout at below 35 percent, dealing a…
NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said situation in the state has improved a lot as violence has come down significantly.…
President Donald Trump has spoken out about revelations tying Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign to a dossier of allegations about his ties to Russia. On…
Kisumu — Kenyan police clashed with opposition supporters where burning barricades and gangs of youths prevented voting in some towns in an election re-run,…
Iraqi forces on Thursday started an offensive to “liberate” the western towns of al-Qaim and Rawa, Islamic State‘s last stronghold in the country, near the…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A train collided with a military vehicle at a railroad crossing in southern Finland early Thursday, killing at least four people,…
Three members of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) were killed in an anti-Maoist operation of the security forces in Rajnandgoan district of…
The Kremlin‘s transcript of a speech by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Crimea edited his text to replace the word “annexation.” Russia‘s annexation…
In addition, two thirds of the cases are of the pneumonic plague, the deadliest form of the disease. ...…
Five people with alleged Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) connections were arrested by Kerala Police in Kannur on Wednesday, October 25. Earlier on…
Iran opened a border crossing with the Kurdistan region of Iraq Wednesday after having closed it following last month’s vote in favor of independence in the…
BERLIN (Reuters) – German policeconfiscated large amounts of guns and ammunition in a Tuesday evening sweep of four locations in Berlin linked to a 40-year-old…
BEIJING (AP) ” China’s Communist Partyleader Xi Jinping on Wednesday unveiled the new lineup of six men who will assist him as he embarks on a second five-year…
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Just a month ago, Iraq’s Kurds were celebrating their symbolic vote for independence as a historic step toward their decades-old dream of…
House Republicans have launched new probes into the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton’s emails, prompting accusations from Democrats who said the moves…
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesiancounterterrorism police said they arrested nine suspected Islamic militants Tuesday, including an alleged bomb maker who…
STOCKHOLM, Oct 24 (Reuters) – China has informed Sweden that it has freed a bookseller detained for publishing books on the personal lives of President Xi…
MADRID, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Catalonia‘s leader Carles Puigdemont cannot solve its political crisis with Madrid just by calling regional elections, Spain‘s…
United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, ahead of his maiden visit to Pakistan on Tuesday, suggested that he will tell the hosts to cease to provide safe…
LONDON: US President Donald Trump is “standing on the wrong side of history” in withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, former UN chief Ban Ki-moon told AFP…
The US is considering a range of actions against Myanmar over its treatment of Rohingya Muslims, including targeted sanctions. Earlier, the EU pledged €30…
KARACHI: Afghan President Ashraf Ghanion Monday issued a decree banning Pakistani trucks from entering the country via the Torkham and Spin Boldak border…
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is poised to press ahead in his hard-line approaches to foreign and security policies with renewed confidence in light of the Liberal…
CLARK, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government declared the end Monday to the militant siege of a southern city that lasted five months, left more than…
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) Afghan PresidentAshraf Ghani will come on a daylong working visit to India on Tuesday during the course of which meet his Indian…
Lady Gaga just posed with all five living former presidents – Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bushand Barack Obama – and it looks so…
The presidents of Italy’s wealthy northern regions of Veneto and Lombardy have claimed victory in autonomy referendums that seek to grab additional powers and…
(CNN)Washington elites have long regarded war with North Korea as all but unthinkable. Yet, obscured by the wild twists and daily cacophony of the Trump…
Two South Africans continue to be detained without trial in Tanzaniafollowing their “unlawful arrest” for what that country’s government has termed “promoting…
More than 1.1 billion people worldwide officially don’t exist, going about their daily lives without proof of identity. ...…
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine military official says government forces are fighting the last batch of about 30 pro-Islamic State group militants who…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia intends to send a diplomatic note to the U.S.secretary of state and summon Washington’s deputy ambassador in Jakarta to explain…
Lahore: Pakistan‘s former president Asif Ali Zardari has claimed…
New Delhi, Oct 22 : As Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj‘s begins her visit to Bangladesh, experts are of the view that it is high time India…
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Thousands of anguished Somalis gathered to pray Friday at the site of the country’s deadliest attack, while the toll rose to 358 and dozens remained missing. Somalia’s president will announce a…
SRINAGAR: An Army porter was today killed and a girl injured in firing by Pakistani troops along the Line of Controlor LoC in Kamalkote sector of Baramulla…
At the same time, the countries should take a hard look at their business partners in Iran, the senior Trump administration official said when asked about India…
[India] Oct 21 ANI: The NationalInvestigation Agency (NIA) has requested Philippines to allow them to question suspected ISIS…
Explosive experts have been called to Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant after a “chemical incident” at the site. Staff had been carrying out a chemical…
The U.N. special rapporteur on the right to privacy has challenged the Japanese government‘s defense of contentious legislation, adopted last June by the Diet,…
Washington: The United States called today for Iraqi federal forces to limit their “movements” in areas claimed by both them and the country’s…
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Former White House adviser Steve Bannon depicted former President George W. Bush as bumbling and inept, faulting him for presiding over a…
British Prime Minister Theresa May has acknowledged for the first time that Brexit negotiations with the European Unionhave hit “difficulty” as she…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Kenya’s national police say four people have been killed in recent opposition demonstrations as the fresh presidential election…
GENEVA: FIFA’s disgraced ex-president Sepp Blatter has told AFP he will go to next year’s World Cup in Russia at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin,…
Bank customers in Catalonia are withdrawing symbolic amounts of money from financial institutions that have moved their official headquarters to other locations…
By Jemima Kelly LONDON (Reuters) – European stocks, the dollar and bond yields climbed on Friday as investors speculated on the return of the “Trumpflation…
[Bangladesh], Oct. 20 (ANI): Nearly 340,000Rohingya children are reportedly living in squalid conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh, where they don’t get…
Quentin Tarantino has admitted he was aware, for decades, about Harvey Weinstein‘s alleged misconduct towards women. The director…
Japan says chasm measuring 500km long and 100 metres wide could be used as a base for astronauts and their equipment…
A Pakistani court has indicted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter, and son-in-law over undisclosed assets abroad. An accountability court in…
Barcelona, Oct 19 (IANS) Catalonian leader Carles Puigdemont on Thursday decided not to rescind his independence bid as per an official requirement from Spain‘s…
Afghanistan At least 43 Afghan soldiers were killed in a Taliban-claimed suicide attack on a military base in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said,…
Test for Trump Barack Obama is returning to the political arena for the first time in months after keeping a low profile and avoiding direct confrontation with…
The driver described it like driving them into “the lion’s mouth”Harvey Weinstein A chauffeur has spoken out about his terrible experience being in Harvey…
Theresa May has written an open letter to EU citizens in the UK reassuring them they will be allowed to stay after Brexit. In a letter published on her Facebook…
New Zealand will have a liberal government under challenger Jacinda Ardern after a small party said it would join her coalition following the election nearly a…
In his Communist party speech Xi’s ambition and confidence were on display. He wants nothing less than for China to be the world’s most important country…
Lawrence‘s speech comes after the sexual harassment and assault accusations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, which has lead to a growing narrative on the…
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The Portuguese government minister in charge of emergency services has resigned after 106 people were killed in wildfires this year. The…
BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) – Qatar‘s emir has urged neighboring states to lift an “unfair” 4-month-old trade embargo and said he’s ready to open talks to end the…
Spain will seek to suspend Catalonia’s autonomy unless the region’s leader abandons his push for independence, the country’s deputy prime…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A top Kenyanelectoral official resigned Wednesday, charging the presidential vote just eight days away cannot be credible as planned.…
The executive was put on leave last week following the surfacing of the allegationsRoy Price The head of AmazonStudios, Roy Price, has resigned from his post…
Madagascar has suffered plague outbreaks almost every year since 1980 An outbreak of highly contagious plague has claimed 74 lives in Madagascar over the past…
Srinagar:?The Jammu and Kashmir Policesaid on Monday that surrenders by local militants will be accepted even if these are made during gun battles with…
Islamabad, Oct 16, IRNA – Consul Generalof Iran in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta said Tehran and Islamabad have agreed to speed up efforts to open two…
Beijing: India and China can jointly lead efforts to solve the Rohingya crisis by offering humanitarian aid to Myanmar‘s conflict-ridden Rakhine state, an…
By Maggie Fick NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan police killed at least 33 people in the capital during a crackdown following elections in August, Amnesty…
BEIJING (AP) — Officials from the Communist Youth League of China felt they had to act: Busy with their education and careers, young Chinese were struggling in…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of StateRex Tillerson insisted that persistent tensions with President Donald Trumpwere not hindering his mission as the…
Former presidential candidate calls for end to tolerance of sexist activities – saying there is a sexual assaulter in Oval Office…
For the first time, Tony Blair has said he and other world leaders were wrong to give…
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Kurdish Peshmerga fighters rejected a warning from an Iraqi paramilitary force to withdraw from a strategic junction south of Kirkuk, which…
MANILA, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) — The Islamic State (IS)-linked militants are putting up fierce resistance as Philippines forces continue its bloody offensive to…
The death toll from twin bomb blasts that struck busy junctions in the heart of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday has jumped to 85, making it one of…
WASHINGTON: Asserting that Indian IT professionals coming to America on H-1Bvisa are not illegal economic immigrants, finance minister Arun Jaitley has said…
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – President Donald Trump‘s refusal to certify the Iran nucleardeal has sparked a new war of words between the Islamic Republic and America.…
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A young man was killed on Saturday during anti-India protests in disputed Kashmir following a gunbattle that killed two rebels, police…
BEIRUT (AP) — A spokesman for the U.S.-backed forces fighting Islamic Statemilitants in Syria says they are waging the “final”…
Fire officials in Northern Californiareported further headway on Friday against the most lethal outbreak of wildfires in state history, as the death toll rose…
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — PresidentDonald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has declared war on the Republican establishment, and now…
Washington: An influential US lawmaker has expressed concern over human rights violations and forced conversions in Pakistan’s Sindh province, saying…
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) — Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Luiz Fuxordered Friday a preemptive suspension of any order to extradite Italian activist…
By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – The United Nations‘ cultural agency will elect a new chief on Friday, seeking someone who can revive UNESCO‘s fortunes after the…
Kurdish media says Iraq‘s autonomous Kurdish region has sent 6,000reinforcements to the disputed, oil-rich city of Kirkuk. Rudaw News, quoting Kurdish Vice…
(CNN)President Donald Trump will announce a combative new strategy toward Iran on Friday, ending the United States‘ adherence to his predecessor’s nuclear deal…
KOLKATA, India (AP) — One police officer was killed and another four were injured when they were fired at by members of a Gorkha organization demanding a new…
A A Facebook- Twitter – More shares recommend reddit email – Print Article The ties between Turkey and the United Statesare growing increasingly strained. And…
The Supreme Court of Appeal has rejected, with costs, President Jacob Zuma’s appeal in his long running battle to avoid prosecution for fraud and corruption.…
President Tayyip Erdogan said there was no problem with Turkey‘s planned purchase of Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems and talks have also been held…
Clownfish under threat from warming ocean waters, which are damaging the anemones that serve as its home…
British IS recruiter Sally-Anne Jones, dubbed the White Widow, has been killed in a US drone strike, it has been reported. Jones was killed close to the border…
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – The leader of Hamas says his group has reached an agreement with the rival Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas…
Ten people are facing hazing charges on Wednesday in the death of a Louisiana State University fraternity pledge that died from alcohol poisoning last month,…
A lawyer said a second trial against former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will take place on Friday after he allegedly ordered massacres of Maya Indians…
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced Wednesday the military was looking into if changes need to be made after an ambush in Niger killed four U.S.…
Texas Democratic congressman Al Greenis so fed up with U.S. President Donald Trump he took the extraordinary step Wednesday of filing a little-used privileged…
Hurricane Ophelia became the 10th hurricane of the hyperactive 2017 Atlanticseason and could travel towards Ireland in the next few days, according to The…
At least 13 people were dead after a fight broke…
As the Trump administration prepares to take a tougher line on Iran, senior US officials previewed a new offensive against Iranian-backed Hezbollah, claiming…
The ISRO is getting ready for the Cartosat-2 series satellite mission in mid-December from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre or Sriharikota High Altitude Range…
Revolutionary Guards are main cause of war and terror in region The clerical regime has expanded its war mongering and criminal interventions in Syria and is…
Islamabad: Afghanistan has suspended the transit trade meeting with Pakistan, aimed at dealing with problems hindering the smooth implementation of a revised…
Indian Army is pushing for better infrastructure as part of “capacity enhancement” along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) post months-long standoff with Chinese…
TOKYO (AP) ” The commander and executive officer of the USS John S. McCainwere relieved of their duties Wednesday due to lost confidence after the warship and…
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday refused to tell a radio station whether she would back EU membership in another referendum, as she leads her.
According to Fars News, the Syrian armyunits during counter-terrorist operation in Hama province killed two high-ranking Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham field…
PARIS (Reuters) – Swiss police have detained two Tunisians wanted in connection with a knife attack this month that killed two young women outside Marseille…
THAINGKHALI, Bangladesh (AP) — U.N.agencies say they have begun a massive cholera immunization campaign to stem a possible outbreak of the…
More than three years after seizing power in a coup, the head of Thailand‘s military government is promising elections in November next year ……
United Nations—India Tuesday slammed Pakistan at the UN for repeatedly raising the Kashmir issue on platforms where it has not been part of the agenda, saying…
A 10-year-old Indian rape victim, who gave birth to a baby girl in August, had been made pregnant by one of her uncles, police say. Police are filing charges…
Islamabad—Pakistan is no more reliant on the United States for military requirements and will reach out to others if one source [of military supplies] dries up,…
Russia‘s Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation has officially confirmed the conclusion of the deal with Saudi Arabiaon the supply of S-400 surface-to-air missile systems ……
NEW DELHI (AP) — India‘s Supreme Courton Monday banned the sale of fireworks in New Delhi and nearby towns 10 days before the Hindu festival of Diwali, in a…
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnia‘s war crimes court on Monday acquitted the wartime commander of Srebrenica, who was accused of committing atrocities…
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel economics prize has been awarded to Richard Thalerof the University of Chicago for his contributions to behavioral economics. The…
CAIRO (AP) — The head of Egypt‘s minuscule Jewish community has voiced support for the country’s UNESCOcandidate who has been criticized by Egyptian human…
BERLIN (AP) — Germany‘s conservative parties say they have agreed on a law limiting the number of migrants allowed to enter the country every year. ...…
A Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) commander was on Monday killed in an encounter between terrorists and security forces in Ladoora…
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: The son-in-law of ousted Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharifwas arrested at Islamabad airport on Monday by Pakistan’s anti-corruption body on his…
Theresa May has suggested she is prepared to demote Boris Johnson in a signal of strength after Downing Streetsuccessfully deflected an attempted coup by a…
New York : In a memorandum submitted to the secretary general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, the former prime minister of Azad Kashmir, Barrister…
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel lobbied party members Saturday to stand behind efforts to build a new coalition with the Free Democratic Partyand…
Theresa May has paid tribute to husband Philip for the support he gave her after her conference speech was blighted by a dodgy set, a prankster and a stubborn…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The new U.S. ambassador to Russia said Saturday that restoring Ukrainian sovereignty and bringing North Korea to the negotiating table…
London, Oct 8 (IANS) Several people were injured on Saturday after a car ploughed into pedestrians outside London’s Natural History Museum, London Metropolitan…
Facebook and Google once aimed to connect the world. Now they would be…
Iraqi Kurdistan is not a second Israel, and it never will be. ...…
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said her government would continue to support nearly 1 million Rohingya Muslims…
The report recorded far more violations against children by terrorists and other armed groups than by governments. ...…
Washington: President Donald Trump will dispatch his top diplomatic and military advisers to Pakistan in the coming weeks, turning up the heat on a…
MEXICO CITY — Tropical Storm Nate gained force as it sped toward Mexico‘s Yucatan Peninsula Friday after drenching Central America in rain that was blamed for…
NEW DELHI: Saudi Arabia‘s King Salman bin Abdulaziz on Wednesday embarked on a landmark three-day visit to Russia, that began with a hiccup. The 81-year-old..
Spain braced for more protests on Saturday despite tentative signs that the sides may be seeking to defuse the crisis after Madrid offered a first apology to…
A Polish man who threatened to kill Theresa May&aposs chief of staff while armed with a kitchen knife has been spared jail. ...…
A policeman stands guard near a military transport helicopter at Ye Baw Kyawvillage, Maungdaw in Myanmar‘s northern Rakhine state, on September 27, 2017 The…
ASTANA, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday he hoped U.S. President Donald Trump would make a “balanced” decision on whether…
MADRID (AP) — Spain&aposs NationalCourt will question two senior officers of Catalonia&aposs regional police force and the leaders of two pro-independence…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates >> The U.S.military has halted some exercises with its Gulf Arab allies over the ongoing diplomatic crisis targeting Qatar, trying…
The biggest football extravaganza to be ever staged in India begins today amid promise that the FIFA U-17 World Cup will serve as a springboard to fulfill the…
Kazuo Ishiguro is the winner of the Nobel Prize for…
LONDON (AP) ? Britain’s High Court has rejected a terminally ill man’s request to be killed with medical help. In a ruling on Thursday, three judges turned down…
ReutersAMSTERDAM/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — An inquiry by the global chemical weapons watchdog found sarin was used in a March attack in Syria on an…
Mattis also warned Pakistan of global “diplomatic isolation” and losing its Non-NATO ally status if it failed to take action against safe havens to terrorists…
Villagers ate the nearly 8m (26ft) long reptile in Sumatra after a local man wrestled and killed it. ...…
GENEVA: President Donald Trump has passed Pope Francis to become the most-followed world leader on Twitter, a social media tracker says. Twitplomacy says Trump,…
A mother from the state of Michigan in the United States was sentenced to seven days in jail after refusing a judge’s order to have her son vaccinated on…
The city is being destroyed in order to save it from a group affiliated with the so-called Islamic State. The U.S. advisors reported there in June are nowhere…
Pakistani troops also violated ceasefire in Laam sector by briefly opening fire along the LoC, police officials said. ...…
European countries will do their utmost to preserve a deal limiting Iran’s nuclear program despite misgivings by U.S. President Donald Trump, a senior European…
Renewables accounted for two-thirds of new power added to world’s grids last year, says International Energy Agency…
More The United States joined countries like Iraq and Botswana in voting against a United Nations that, among other things, condemns the use of the…
A family of asteroids that shares the orbit of Mars may be pieces of the planet itself thrown into space after an impact, a study has revealed, and they may…
British Prime Minister Theresa May will issue a call for unity within her government’s Conservative ranks on Wednesday as a string of cabinet ministers told the…
Taken from the forthcoming EP Axiom, “Hustle” is a stunning return to form almost two years in the making.
In its ongoing war against online extremism the UK government has said it intends to change the law to bring in tougher sentences for people who repeat view…
Police arrested on Tuesday Honeypreet Insan, the adopted daughter of jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, from a…
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s Vice President Jorge Glas was jailed Monday after the Supreme Court ordered his arrest while he is investigated for allegedly…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump condemned the mass shooting in Las Vegas – in which at least 59 people were shot dead – as an “act of pure evil” and…
Prime minster says she does not want cabinet full of yes men and prefers ‘diverse range of voices’…
President Donald Trump wants to show that the US federal government is on top of the daunting recovery effort in Puerto Rico Donald Trump will survey…
[India], October 2 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Nirmal Singh on Monday said that Pakistan is a country of cowards and soon India will teach a good…
SAN FRANCISCO, California—It’s a wind-swept afternoon at the continent’s edge in the north of California – particularly at the…
[Representational image]Creative Commons While India is a country with various rituals that have been followed by generations, the latest one has shaken people…
A Pakistani court has postponed the indictment of former Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif for seven days after his children, who are co-defendants in the case, did…
British Finance Minister Philip Hammondhas said Prime Minister Theresa May and her all senior ministers are frustrated by the slow pace of Brexit negotiations…
By Sam Edwards BARCELONA, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mariano Rajoyfaces Spain‘s biggest constitutional crisis in decades after Sunday’s violence-marred…
A delegation from the Palestinian Authority, led by Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, is visiting Gaza Monday as part of reconciliation efforts to end a…
Washington, Sep 30 (IANS) US PresidentDonald Trump‘s lawyers have asked Facebook to provide the private account information of the social media giant’s users engaged in “anti-administration activists”. “The warrants…
Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh), Oct 1: Bangladesh is to move to a camp at least 15,000 Rohingya refugees who have settled in a restive hill district near the border…
Ben Shaw died after a 98kg weight fell on him (Picture: Facebook/ Pine Central SpiritHornets) A teenage boy has died after being crushed by a 98kg bar during a…
ROME: Italy has ordered North Korea‘s incoming new ambassador to leave the country in a protest over Kim Jong-Un‘s missile launches and nuclear tests. Foreign…
NEW DELHI: India has opened two immigration check posts along the borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh, a reflection of its growing closeness with the two…
Human Rights Watch says Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been recruiting Afghan immigrant children living in Iran to fight in the conflict…
Islamabad [Pakistan]: A Senator in Pakistan, Farhatullah Babar, has called for a probe on recent report that intelligence agencies were “shielding”…
MANCHESTER: British Prime MinisterTheresa May‘s Conservative Party gathers today for its annual conference, dominated by questions about her leadership and…
Beijing [China], September 30 (ANI): An earthquake measuring 5.5 in magnitude hit Qingchuan County in southwest China’sSichuan province at 2:14 p.m.…
Human rights organisations have said they are suing the US President Donald Trump‘s administration over the latest version of the US president‘s…
Lahore: Ousted Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif will be re-elected as the President of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) during the party’s general…
Uber Technologies Inc co-founder TravisKalanick on Friday said he had appointed two new directors, a surprise move that publicly reignited a board battle over…
Ending what has got to be one of the longest searches in archaeological history, the lost Greek temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient…
Unemployment in Germany hit a surprise new low in September, official data showed Friday, the latest in a string of sunny indicators as the upswing continues in…
The cost of renovating the tower that houses Big Ben has more than doubled in 16 months, provoking an angry response from members of Parliament, The Guardian…
Contaminated water might have leaked from the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors after erroneous settings on water gauges lowered the levels of groundwater nearby. The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., ……
Islamabad: Pakistan’s interior ministry has called for the electoral commission to bar from politics a new party backed by an Islamist with a $10 million…
By Philip Wen DANDONG, China (Reuters) – International sanctions on North Koreahave helped sustain a housing glut in China’s border city of Dandong, through…
Representational ImageCreativeCommons/Paul Sableman A day that was meant to be a happy and joyous one turned tragic for a nine-year-old boy in Bengaluru when he…
The drowning tragedy is the latest in a series of deadly accidents as desperate Rohingya flee Myanmar for BangladeshThe death toll from a boat which capsized…
Iraqi paramilitaries of the PopularMobilisation force flash the victory sign as they advance on the Islamic State group-held enclave around the northern town…
The UN warns the conflict in northeastern Nigeria threatens to create “a lost generation of children”. Most schools in the state worst-hit by the Boko Haram…
If tensions between the United States and North Korea lead to war, the followers of Kim Jong-Un are apparently ready to fight, USA Today reported. >>…
Recently, mass media is actively emerging new evidence of cooperation between the U.S. and ISIS terrorists. This time, Warfare Worldwide organization tweeted a video, where an ISIS fighter from Deir Ezzor had told some…
TOKYO (AP) — A surge of popularity for a freshly minted opposition party in Japan is making Prime Minister Shinzo Abe‘s decision to call a snap election look…
Brexit secretary David Davis has said “considerable progress” has been made on important issues in his talks with the EU. Davis and his counterpart, EU…
A court in India has charged Tarun Tejpal, the former editor of Tehelka magazine,…
China’s commerce ministry said on Thursday that North Korean firms or joint ventures in China will be shut within the 120 days…
By David Mardiste TALLINN, Sept 28(Reuters) – French President EmmanuelMacron can expound his ambitious new vision for the European Union when he meets his…
Taking a page out of Berkeley‘s book, the University of Utah ramped up security Wednesday for an appearance by conservative provocateur Ben Shapiro that drew…
BERLIN, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Bavaria‘s conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) wants talks on forming a new German government to focus on security and curbing…
GENEVA (AP) ” Two U.N. human rights experts are expressing concerns about a French counterterrorism bill being debated in parliament, warning of possible…
Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh): Rika Dhar watched as her husband, two brothers and…
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Exclusive: Multiple women fighting Uber in US sexual assault cases say the company turned its back on them, as judge calls its record with police ‘horrific’…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday launched a two-year activism and awareness-raising campaign about the plight of migrants to counteract mounting…
[VOA] Geneva -The World Health Organization reports 844,000 people in northeast Nigeria have been reached with one dose of oral cholera vaccine in an effort to…
KABUL: A rocket landed near Kabul‘s international airport on Wednesday shortly after US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in the Afghan capital for talks, an…
Hotly debated dispute Posters demanding freedom for Jammu and Kashmir and Indian states Tripura, Nagaland, and Manipur have appeared on metro buses and trams in…
JERUSALEM, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) — A Palestinian…
Mattis, the first Cabinet Minister of the Trump Administration to visit India from tomorrow, said that for America India was clearly a pillar of regional…
European ambassadors to the United States have mounted a united defense of the Iran nuclear deal as Washingtonsignals it may walk away from the pact, CNN…
Switzerland opened a war-crimes investigation into Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, almost four years ago, but it has stalled despite…
When the U.S. Supreme Court returns next Monday, not only will the court feature a new, ninth justice, Neil Gorsuch, and already the court will open the term…
One percent of schools in Mexico Citywere approved to reopen Monday almost a week after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit the country — killing at least…
Washington (CNN)Sen. John McCain‘s brain cancer is “very, very serious,” the ArizonaRepublican said in an interview Sunday night, adding that doctors told him…
On the miles-long beach that makes this Bangladesh‘s top tourist destination, thousands of people picnic and splash in the water. There are balloons and cotton…
Karti Chidambaram, accused last week in the Supreme Court of furtively closing down foreign bank account, was penalized today with assets worth 90 lakhs…
An autopsy report has revealed how a model was scalped and drained of blood, in…
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike threw her hat into the ring of national politics Sept. 25 by announcing she is forming a new party. Koike told a news conference in…
BERLIN The Latest on the outcome of Germany‘s national election (all times local): 9:20 a.m. A leader of the nationalist Alternative for Germany has laid open…
PV Sindhu, who recently clinched the silver medal in this year’s badminton World Championships, has been nominated for the Padma Bhushan award by the…
Delhi and Washington share concerns about Afghanistan, and Trump announced a new strategy for the war-torn country last month. ...…
An Afghan policeman keeps watch at the site of the suicide bomber’s attack in Kabul. Reuters photo. A suicide bomber targeting a NATO convoy wounded three…
BERLIN, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) — More than 61 million German voters were called to cast ballots on Sunday to pick their Bundestag, or federal parliament, on which a…
Baramulla : An encounter is underway between the security…
Dawood Ibrahim’s younger brother, IqbalKaskar, reportedly spoke to India‘s most wanted gangster at least four times in the recent past with ‘burner phones’ to…
North Korea said on targeting the US mainland with its rockets was inevitable after “Mr. Evil President” Donald Trumpcalled Pyongyang’s leader “rocket man”,…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria’s foreign minister told world leaders Saturday that his country is “marching steadily” toward the goal of rooting out terrorism —…
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Mexico’s most recent earthquakes did not directly involve two tectonic plates clashing, as is commonly the case. Seismologist Dr Stephen Hicks explains…
Theresa May is to offer the leaders of the EU27 countries at least €20bn as part of the UK’s divorce bill during her major speech on Friday. Oliver…
Togo will hold a referendum in the coming days to limit presidential terms, after parliament failed on Tuesday to agree the reform that the opposition says…
BERLIN: Angela Merkel has been derided as Europe‘s “austerity queen”, cheered as a saviour by refugees and hailed as the new “leader of the free world”. But as…
BEIJING–Violent incidents in Myanmar‘s Rakhine state are unacceptable and there should be understanding of the Myanmar government‘s efforts to protect social…
UNITED NATIONS: President Donald Trump urged world leaders Tuesday to help restore “democracy and political freedoms” in Venezuela, singling out the South…
Bangladesh‘s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has issued a new call for Myanmarto take back the some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in the…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterresspeaks during the General Debate of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at the UN headquartersin New…
For all the talk in California about leading the world in fighting global warming and resisting…
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In the Caribbean, Hurricane Maria strengthened rapidly Monday over the warm waters of the Atlantic,…
A standard technique deployed by corporate journalists to fend off challenges from the public is to…
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Jakarta, Sep 19 (IANS) Indonesian authorities have raised the alert level for a volcano in Balifollowing increased activity, a senior official said…
The U.S. military acknowledged it has closed an outpost in southern Syria in recent days amid reports that American forces and their contingent of Syrian…
NIA Court grants bail on Tuesday to the two accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case. A special NIA court on Tuesday granted bail to two accused in the 2008…
Former Democratic presidential candidate…
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Northrop Grummanis buying Orbital ATK for about $7.8 billion, with a backdrop of rising global tensions accelerating big deals in the…
A suspected agent of Pakistan’s ISI has been arrested by the special cell of Delhi Police. The arrested suspect has been identified as Mohammad Pervez. ...…
KABUL, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) — More than 250,000 Afghans have been displaced so far this year by conflicts and prolonged insurgency, the UN Office for the…
The United States is pushing for diplomacy with North Korea, but has said it has “many” military options against Pyongyang. While pledging to work with China,…
Aid groups are struggling to provide relief to a daily stream of new arrivals, more than half of whom are children. Reuters File Photo Pressure grew on Myanmar…
China expressed concern on Monday over a proposal by European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker to limit its ability to buy European companies in the…
More North Korea‘s nuclear threat looms large this week over the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York, where diplomats are eager…
United Nations, Sep 18 : External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has arrived here to attend the annual 72nd UN General Assembly (UNGA) session. She will hold a…
The plight of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority who are reviled and denied citizenship in Myanmar, has roused emotion across the Islamic world, with protests held…
Iran‘s supreme leader has said his country will not be bullied by the United States and will react strongly to any “wrong move” by Washington on…
A large typhoon made landfall on Japan‘s northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Monday after heavy rain and a mudslide killed two people on the western main…
Palestinian Islamist Hamas group said on Septemebr 17 it has dissolved its administration that runs Gaza and agrees to hold general elections in order to end a…
Afghanistan is considering training and arming 20,000 civilians to defend territories where Islamic militants have been driven out, officials say, sparking…
Pakistan has requested the World Bank to fulfil its obligation to establish a court of arbitration to settle its water dispute with India in the light of the…
London police say a second man has been arrested in connection with the London subway attack. Police said Sunday that a 21-year-old man was arrested late…
A Yemeni soldier stands on the debris of a house, hit in a Saudi-led coalition air strike in the capital Sanaa on August 26, 2017 Twelve Yemeni civilians…
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has signaled his intention to dissolve the Lower House for a snap election, possibly as early as this month. Abe wants to take…
NATO will decide next month whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, where they will likely be used to train, advise and assist the Afghan National Army NATO…
Baghdad, Sep 16 (IANS) Iraqi forces on Saturday launched an operation to clear the desert area near the border with Syria from the Islamic State(IS) militants,…
The Rs 1,420-crore NavIC consists of nine satellites — seven in orbit and two as substitutes (IRNSS-1H and IRNSS-1I). India will resume launching satellites in…
Washington: President Donald Trump will pummel foes and embrace friends in his first speech to the United Nations General Assemblynext week, keeping pressure…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has invited world leaders to a special event Monday on preventing sexual exploitation and abuse — an…
Srinagar: Pakistan rangers on Saturday violated ceasefire along the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir targeting Indian…
A day after North Korea fired an intermediate range ballistic missile over Japan, PresidentDonald Trump said he is confident that the US’ options toward North…
Jean-Claude Juncker has insisted his plans to drive forward tax harmonisation are not “anti-Irish”, in an exclusive interview with the Irish Independent. The…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday asked all high courts to register a suo motu petition to identify kin of prisoners who admittedly died an unnatural death…
BERLIN (AP) — Qatar’s ruling emir arrived in Germany on Friday on his first trip abroad since a diplomatic crisis erupted between his tiny Gulf nation and…
A woman was seen being helped by police outside the station (Picture: Metro.co.uk) Passengers on a District Line Tube train at Parsons Green have…
Sydney: Australia‘s prime minister Friday defended a church’s right not to marry some couples following reports a woman’s wedding was cancelled…
TOKYO, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday called on the international community to unite against the Democratic People‘s Republic…
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 15 (Bernama) — Heavy rain has been lashing five districts in Penang from 3 am today, causing floods, landslides and traffic congestion,…
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office warned Indiaon Thursday against any misadventure as ceasefire violations by Indian troops so far this year surpassed the figure…
LONDON (AP) – Secretary of State Rex Tillersonis in London for talks Thursday on international efforts to pressure North Korea over its nuclear and…
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday issued a bailable arrest warrant for PTIchief Imran Khan following his failure to show up for the…
ANKARA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Turkey on Thursday welcomed an Iraqi parliament move to reject a referendum on Kurdish independence. The parliament in Baghdad…
Seoul (CNN)South Korean President Moon Jae-in has dismissed the possibility of deploying nuclear weapons in his country, warning it could “lead to a nuclear…
The European Union‘s top migration official said Thursday that extraordinary border controls inside Europe‘s passport-free travel area should not be extended…
The White House said Wednesday that PresidentDonald Trump will sign a bipartisan congressional resolution condemning white nationalists, after the measure…
Theresa May is to travel to a historic Europeancity to unveil further details of her vision for Britain’s future outside the EU. The Prime Minister’s…
BAGHDAD (AP) — Baghdad‘s central criminal court sentenced a Russian national to death by hanging for his membership in the Islamic Stategroup, the court said…
By Enrico Dela Cruz MANILA, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte‘s critics and allies in the Senate vowed on Wednesday to block a lower…
Indian Army will be inducting 800 women soldiers this year and has plans to increase women’s presence with a yearly intake of 52 women soldiers. The Indian Air…
DUBAI (Reuters) – A mysterious Syrian wheat purchase signed last October with a little-known Russian trader has formally been called off, a government source…
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Some denounce it as a violation of Islamic law, others embrace it as revolutionary: An initiative by Tunisia’s president to make…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An American citizen will go to trial in federal court in Brooklyn on Tuesday on charges that he supported al Qaeda and helped prepare a…
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian media say a teenager is suspected of killing a city mayor in a cemetery…
German prosecutors say the main defendant in a high-profile neo-Nazi trial should receive a life sentence for her alleged role in the killing of 10 people by a…
Liu Jieyi, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, addresses a meeting of the UN Security Council at the UN headquarters in New York Sept. 11,…
Britain’s parliament backed a second reading of legislation to sever ties with the European Unionearly on Tuesday, a reprieve for British Prime Minister…
Madhumita Pandey was only 22 when she first went to Tihar Jail in New Delhi to meet and interview convicted rapists in India. Over the past three years, she has…
Four months after their new president was elected, French workers will hold a day of protests against Emmanuel Macron&aposs labor reforms. Some 4,000 walk-outs…
North Korea says it will make the United States pay a heavy price if a proposal…
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — As the United Statesgrapples with Hurricane Irma, Taiwan was preparing Monday for an incoming…
Terminal 1 of Germany‘s largest airport was partially evacuated over the weekend, after an apparently psychologically disturbed man told police was carrying…
Tehran, Sep 11, IRNA – A senior Iranian researchers commented on the latest summit of the G20 member states in Geermany saying that although the issue of energy…
Gurugram: Two senior Ryan International Schoolofficials were arrested in connection with the brutal murder of a seven-year-old student, police said on Monday.…
Slashdot reader mikeebbbd noticed this in the AP’s Florida hurricane coverage: Electric carmaker Tesla says it has…
A new high-end iPhone may be called the iPhone X, according to firmware leaks discovered by an Irish software developer. The firmware – software that is used in…
SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq: Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Islamic State fighters in a camp after government forces…
PRZEMYSL, Poland (AP) – Mikheil Saakashvili‘s strategy for returning to Ukraine despite the revocation of his citizenship changed Sunday when the stateless…
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi officials say they are holding more than 1,300 foreign women and children, the families of…
Tony Blair has said that tough new immigration rules would allow Britain to exert greater control at its borders without leaving the European Union. The former…
NEW DELHI: A new malware Xafecopy Trojanhas been detected in India which steals money through victims’ mobile phones, cyber security firm Kaspersky said in a…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed readiness to participate in diplomatic initiatives to end the dispute over North Korea’s weapons programs,…
UNITED NATIONS — North Korea illegally exported coal, iron and other commodities worth at least $270 million to China and other countries including India,…
Caibarien, Cuba (CNN)Hurricane Irma slammed northern Cuba on Saturday, continuing its path of devastation through the Caribbean towards the US state of Florida.…
Pakistan’s Supreme Court will hear on September 12 a review plea filed by ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his children challenging his disqualification…
By John Davison BEIRUT, Sept 9 (Reuters) – U.S.-backed Syrian militias have launched an operation against Islamic State in the north of Deir al-Zor province, a…
Rakhine: Camps will be set up to provide aid for displaced Muslims inside Rakhine state, state-backed media said Saturday, the first time in a 16-day crisis…
VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia (AP) — Pope Francisbrought together thousands of victims of Colombia&aposs half-century-long conflict with their former victimizers,…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian police on Friday said they arrested former minister Geddel Vieira Lima on new charges after a corruption probe found his…
Images caught on camera showed Africanmigrants jumping out of a small boat and running onto shore at an Italian beach in broad daylight — an increasingly…
United Nations—India has told Pakistan that Jammu and Kashmir will remain its integral part and criticised Islamabad for using “terrorism as tool of…
Israel‘s attorney general has taken a step toward indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s wife for alleged misuse of public funds. Attorney General…
BEIJING, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping told French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday that he hoped France could play a “constructive role”…
By Christine Kim and James Oliphant SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most South Koreans doubt that North Korea will start a war, a survey showed on Friday, just…
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has accused an opposition leader, Julio Borges, of “treason” for taking a European tour to gather support…
NEW YORK (AP) ” A Greek Orthodox churchtaking shape next to the World Trade Centermemorial plaza will glow at night like a marble beacon when it opens…
Climate change could potentially eradicate one-third of all parasite species on Earth, according to the most comprehensive study to date. Tapeworms, roundworms,…
A group of West Pakistan refugees (WPRs) from Jammu and Kashmir has moved the Supreme Court against continuation of a constitutional provision that grants…
By Oksana Kobzeva and Denis Pinchuk VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he thought the North Korea crisis…
Ahead of a landmark visit to Athens on Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron has told Kathimerini that he is optimistic about Greece’s future as a…
COX‘S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Aid agencieswere struggling to cope with a nonstop flood of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh, where some 146,000 have arrived…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force “sniffer plane” was collecting air samples off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Sept. 3, 1949, when it…
Kim Jong-Un‘s North Korean regime said its sixth nuclear test was a hydrogen bomb that could be fitted onto a missile The EU is preparing to increase its own…
Hurricanes usually have a way of pulling people together despite political or other differences. As Irma approaches south Florida, though, we’re seeing a…
Cox’s Bazar, (Bangladesh): At least five children drowned when boats carrying Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar sank early on Wednesday,…
Islamabad: The Climate Change Ministry has a plan to safeguard Pakistan’s rights on trans-boundary water inflows according to international norms and…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday met Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and the…
Washington, Sep 6 (IANS) US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said that PresidentTrump has the authority and the justification to scrap the Iran…
The Utah police officer who was caught on video forcefully arresting a nurse in July was fired from his part-time job as a paramedic Tuesday, The Associated…
A few days ago, when the largest asteroid in more than a century flew past Earth, astronomers made a surprising discovery – the asteroid had two previously…
Kenya‘s opposition leader Raila Odinga has said that he will not take part in the presidential…
ABUJA (Reuters) – The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has killed 381 civilians in Nigeriaand Cameroon since the beginning of April, rights group Amnesty…
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Dialogue of Emerging Market and Developing Countries on the sidelines of the 2017 BRICSSummit in Xiamen, China…
The possibility of an imminent war between Israeland Hizbollah has been growing as both Israeli and Hizbollah officials engage in fiery rhetoric about how damaging the next war will be (for the other side, of…
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – French Foreign MinisterJean Yves Le Drian met Libyan officials in Tripolion Monday to offer support for a deal between political rivals…
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Star India will pay a staggering 163.48 billion rupees (£1.97 billion) for the television and digital rights of the IndianPremier…
(CNN)Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoganhas accused German Chancellor Angela Merkeland her election rival Martin Schulz of “bowing down to populism and…
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai and Muslim countries in Asia led a growing chorus of criticism on Monday aimed at Myanmar and its civilian leader Aung San…
President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off trade with countries that deal with North Korea is unacceptable and unfair, China has said. Mr Trump said on Twitter…
Days after Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was sentenced to 20 years in jail in connection with rape cases, police recovered a huge cache of arms from the Dera Sacha…
Author: Reuters Sun, 2017-09-03 06:06 ID: 1504408524307243900 TOKYO: Princess Mako, the eldest granddaughter of Japanese Emperor Akihito, will wed a former…
(CNN)The German election is very much Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s to lose. But Sunday evening’s encounter with her principal opponent — the sole head-to-head…
By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha was arrested in a police raid on his home early on Sunday and veteran Prime…
It used to be banks, but now it is tech giants that dominate the US lobbying industry. Can money buy them what they want: less competition, less tax … and…
Islamabad, Sep 3 (IANS) Thirteen terror suspects were arrested in Pakistan’s Punjab provincefollowing a security operation, police said. According to…
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Vineyards moved their wine harvest to the cool of night and transit trains slowed for fear that some of the hottest weather in San…
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say two gunmen targeting an ethnic party lawmaker after Eid prayers instead gunned down two others, including a child,…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trumphas sent lawmakers an initial request for a $7.9 billion down payment toward Harvey relief and recovery efforts.…
[China], September 2 (ANI): Russian PresidentVladimir Putin called on leaders of emerging markets and economies i.e. BRICS countries to present a united…
A whopping 800 engineering colleges to shut down next year 02 Sep 2017 The AICTE is planning to shut down 800 engineering colleges due to plunging admission…
HOUSTON (AP) – Thick black smoke and towering orange flames shot up after two trailers of highly unstable compounds blew up at a flooded Houston-area chemical…
US President Donald Trump has announced he plans to appoint James Bridenstine, a former navy pilot and Republican congressman, to head the US space agency NASA.…
Congress returns Tuesday to grapple with the debt limit, tax reform, government funding to avoid a shutdown, recovery efforts – and a hostile leader…
Washington&aposs ban on US citizens travelling to North Korea came into force on Friday, with the two countries at loggerheads over Pyongyang&aposs weapons…
Washington: Kim Kardashian West has hit out at US President Donald Trump and said her 4-year-old daughter would do a better job of running the country than the…
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putinwarned on Friday that the tense standoff between North Korea and the United States was on the verge of large-scale…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani government administrator says a roadside bomb has struck a vehicle carrying an anti-Taliban tribal elder in the northwest,…
A similar statement, refuting India taking $20 billion loan, was made by China’s foreign ministry, while People’s Daily ran a report about money offer being…
BAGHDAD — The northern town of Tal Afar has been “fully liberated” from the Islamic Stategroup, Iraq’s prime minister said Thursday, further shrinking the…
MUMBAI, India (AP) — Rescuers worked through the night removing the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in India’s financial capital of Mumbai where at…
TOKYO (AP) — Japan‘s Defense Ministry is seeking a record-high budget to add missile interceptors and other equipment to defend the country from more North…
Washington— The US must declare Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism, a former top senator who was instrumental in imposing tough sanctions on Pakistan in…
CHANDIGARH: Jasmeet Insan, son of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, is likely to be formally appointed as the new head of Dera Sacha Sauda. According to sources,…
Police announced Wednesday about 70,000German citizens in Frankfurk must evacuate their homes this weekend in one of the largest evacuations in post-war…
Human rights groups pressured the United Nations to begin an independent investigation into abuses during the Yemen conflict which intensified into the world’s…
An Austrian court dismissed a Spanishextradition request for Ukrainian business leader Dmytro Firtash, according to Reuters. In February, a Vienna appeals…
A Brazilian court suspended a government decree that would have opened up a large natural reserve the size of Denmark in the Amazon rainforest to commercial…
After Tuesday’s downpour, the intensity of rainfall reduced across Mumbai on Wednesday. Between 8.30am on Tuesday and 8.30am on Wednesday, the Santacruz…
A Palestinian girl plays in an impoverished area in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis, on April 26, 2016 UN chief Antonio Guterres called for the…
Pakistan batsman Sharjeel Khan has been banned for five…
Tokyo – Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso on Wednesday retracted a remark to lawmakers of his faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party that could be…
Sumiteru Taniguchi, who devoted his life to seeking to abolish nuclear weapons after he was severely burned in the 1945 atomic bomb attack on his home town of…
Tokyo: British Prime Minister Theresa Mayarrived in Japan on an official visit Wednesday with an eye to soothing Brexit fears and pushing ahead on early…
The disputed border between Bhutan and China. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi today said the 73-day stand-off between India and China in Dokalam ended after…
Humanitarian workers in South Sudan say the country’s ongoing civil war has increased the rate of child marriage to alarming levels. According to the United…
New York, Aug 29 : It will be a “very big mistake” for the US to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, a former official under the Barack Obama…
Many experts are pointing out that whenever North Korea has sent rockets over Japan in…
An explosion occurred near the heavily-fortified US embassy in the centre of the Afghan capital…
Berlin: A German nurse serving a life sentence for murdering two of his patients is believed to have killed at least 86 others entrusted to his care, officials…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China on Monday pledged closer coordination on Afghanistan. The understanding on enhanced cooperation for peace in Afghanistan was…
Gilead Sciences will pay US$11.9 billion in cash to buy Kite Pharma and plant a stake in an emerging area of cancer treatments that train a patient’s…
[China], August 28 (ANI): The United States may ask China to put pressure on Pakistan to act against Afghan Taliban and other terror groups having sanctuaries…
Aung San Suu Kyi’s office has accused international aid workers of helping “terrorists”, a claim that has prompted fears for their safety and…
(CNN)A glossy women’s magazine has hit virtual newsstands, its front cover splashed with the image of a woman, veiled from head to toe, walking off into a…
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told police on Monday they could kill “idiots” who violently resist arrest, two days after hundreds of…
The death toll in Sunday’s Indian shelling from across the Line of Control (LoC) increased to three, as one of the three injured persons succumbed to his wounds…
Floyd Mayweather insists his victory over Conor McGregor in Las Vegas will be his “last fight” after taking his record to 50-0. Mayweather battered McGregor around the ring in the later rounds, finally stopping him…
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s main opposition party has announced that it backs the U.K. staying in the European Union single market and customs union…
Brexit Secretary David Davis is heading for a Brussels showdown, with a demand for the European Commission to be more “flexible” in negotiations on the UK’s…
(MENAFN – NewsBytes) Musa‘s al-Qaeda linked terror group calls for pan-India jihad 27 Aug 2017 India has been grappling with handling violence fuelled…
America’s security aid to Pakistan “will be conditioned” on the steps Islamabad takes against terrorist groups such as the Taliban and the Haqqani network, a…
Controversial former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio(R) — who endorsed Donald Trump during his presidential campaign last year — earned a pardon on Friday Donald…
Caracas: Venezuela held nationwide armed forces exercises on Saturday, calling on civilians to join reserve units to defend against a possible attack after…
ST. PAUL — With no measles cases in 42 days, state officials on Friday declared the outbreak over after the highly contagious virus sickened 79 Minnesotans this…
NEW DELHI (AP) — A flamboyant and hugely popular spiritual guru who was convicted of rape, triggering a deadly rampage by angry supporters, is not the only…
VARNA: French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday triggered a furious reaction from Polandafter he attacked Warsaw for rejecting tough proposals to overhaul a…
French wine grape growers are expecting their worst harvest since 1945 after an unusually mild March and a frosty April, experts have said, although the hot…
Ten civilians, including three children, were killed in a raid by foreign and Somali forces on a farm in southern Somalia, a deputy governor said Friday, The…
Denver police said they were investigating after some disturbing videos were circulating online that showed high school cheerleaders screaming in pain while…
Former Idaho Governor and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus, known for preserving huge tracts of wilderness in Alaska, died late Thursday at the age…
At least 71 people including 12 security forces were killed as Rohingya militants besieged border posts in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar‘s authorities said…
BEIJING, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) — China opposes any unilateral sanctions imposed by any country outside the framework of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC),…
The UK’s foreign secretary has conceded that the country will have to pay to leave the European Union after previously claiming the bloc could “go whistle” over…
Air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition have targeted Yemen‘s capital, hitting at least three houses in Sanaa and killing 14 civilians, including women and…
BERLIN (AP) — Germany‘s Interior Ministry has banned an internet site on allegations it was being used to foment left-wing extremist violence, including at this…
VARNA, Bulgaria (Reuters) – French PresidentEmmanuel Macron on Friday said Poland was isolating itself in Europe and that Polish citizens…
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Muslim militants armed with guns and machetes attacked Myanmar security forces at several police and border outposts overnight in a…
AL UDEID AIR BASE: Even as tensions between the United States and Russia fester, there is one surprising place where their military-to-military contacts are…
The Supreme Court’s ruling on August 24, 2017 that the right to privacy is a fundamental right is a “set back” for the government, noted lawyer Prashant Bhushan…
Washington—The US has asked India and Pakistan to continue to engage in direct talks aimed at reducing tensions between the two countries. “I think one of the…
Brasilia, Aug 24 (IANS) Brazilian PresidentMichel Temer has signed a decree allowing a nature reserve in the Amazon rainforest to open for mining. Located in…
Thousands of Atlantic salmon may have escaped into Pacific waters when a net pen that was containing 305,000 of the fish was damaged at a farm off the coast of…
A couple who were wrongfully imprisoned for two decades for allegedly sexually abusing children as part of satanic rituals, will receive $3.4 million from the…
A federal judge decided to rule that the changes Texas made to their voter identification law earlier this year did not go far enough to make the state’s policy…
By Polina Nikolskaya and Andrew OsbornMOSCOW, Aug 23 (Reuters) – Some of Russia‘s most famous actors, celebrities and directors on Wednesday joined crowds…
Two men are committed to stand trial over an alleged plot to bomb Melbourne‘s Federation Square over the Christmas holidays last year, as evidence emerged the…
North Korea‘s state media released photos Wednesday that appear to show the designs of one or possibly two new missiles. Conceptdiagrams of the missiles were…
A powerful typhoon has caused at least three deaths in Macau, according to local authorities in the Chinese gambling enclave. Three men, aged 30, 45 and 62,…
Karachi,—At least 24 people were killed in heavy monsoon rains that wreaked havoc in Pakistan’ssouthern port city of Karachi in the last two days, officials…
Dawood Ibrahim The UK Treasury on Monday updated its sanctions list with 21 aliases of dreaded underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim. Dawood is India‘s most wanted…
Danish inventor Peter Madsen has been charged with killing Wall on his home-made submarine…
The men accused of trying to blow up an Etihad flight out of Sydney planned to smuggle a bomb on board the jet inside a large Barbie doll, Lebanese officials claim. Lebanon‘s interior minister…
MADRID (AP) — Four alleged members of a terror cell accused of killing 15 people in attacks in Barcelona and a Spanish resort appeared in court Tuesday, a day…
Beijing—China on Tuesday said there will be “utter chaos” if its troops entered India on the pretext that Indian border infrastructure posed a threat to…
Authorities in Japan are trying to decide what to do with the hundreds of thousands of metric tons of contaminated water being stored at the crippled Fukushima…
A gunman waiting outside a Steubenville, Ohiocourthouse Monday injured a judge when he “ambushed” him as he walked to work before the judge pulled out a weapon…
Hours after a Danish inventor was charged with killing a journalist in his homemade submarine after he admitted in court she died on board the craft, a headless…
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte admitted Monday there may have been abuses in the country’s war on drugs, RTE reported. In a hastily called news conference…
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has ordered a wide investigation into recent Navy accidents at sea. This follows another US Navy warship accident in Asian…
A source with direct knowledge of these matters tells Breitbart News that the senior staff at the White House, including National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, did not brief President Donald Trump on the collision the Navy destroyer USS John McCain had with an oil tanker near Singapore before he originally seemingly dismissed the incident saying, “that’s too bad.”
Solar eclipse 2017: NASA has provided safety tips (guidelines) for the space enthusiasts as it is never safe to look directly at the sun’s rays – even if the…
Theresa May’s ambition to kick-start talks on a future UK-EU trade deal has been dashed after the Prime Minister of Slovenia warned the first phase of…
The bell inside the Elizabeth Tower will go silent for the next four years (apart from special occasions) (Picture: Getty) Big Ben will fall silent on Monday…
BEIJING (AP) — China is relaunching one of the world’s fastest bullet trains, running at 350 kilometers (217 miles) per hour.…
The Austrian foreign minister has warned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against meddling in European elections after the Turkishhead of state urged nationals…
High profile United States-based businessman Elon Musk is at the head of another effort to convince governments to stop the development of killer robots. His…
Jerry Lewis epitomized what it meant to be a survivor in Hollywood. Through ups and downs in popularity, health troubles and weight fluctuations and the sorts…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia apologized to Indonesia on Sunday for an “unintentional” mistake in…
Ten militants were today sentenced to death and nine others jailed for 20 years each by a court in Bangladesh for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister…
BEIRUT — A car bomb killed two people Saturday in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar Assad‘s government, activists said. The…
Iran‘s President Hassan Rouhani said today the top foreign policy priority for his new government was to protect the nuclear deal from being torn up by the…
Islamabad, Aug 20 : A leading Chinese company will build the Afghan embassy complex in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad at a cost of nearly $17 million, media…
Comedian Dick Gregory, who took an active role in the civil rights movement in the United Statesin the 1960s, has died at age 84, his son said on social media…
A knife attacker stabbed eight people on the street in Russia’s far northern city of Surgut before being shot by police, investigators said on Saturday. The man…
Officials say rising floodwaters have inundated large parts of a famous wildlife reserve park in northeastern India, killing more than 225 animals and forcing…
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Mourners on Saturday attended a state funeral for Ruth Pfau, a German physician and nun who earned international acclaim as “Pakistan’s…
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford, left, poses with Japanese Chief of Staff, Joint Staff Adm. Katsutoshi Kawano for a photo during a meeting…
More BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Venezuela‘s ousted chief prosecutor and her husband — two of President Nicolas Maduro‘s most outspoken critics — fled the country…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is “studying and considering his options” for a new approach to Afghanistan and the broader South Asia region, the White…
Washington: Steve Bannon, the blunt-spoken and divisive strategist who rose from Donald Trump‘s conservative campaign to a top White Housepost, was pushed…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – An earthquake of 6.4magnitude struck 500 km (310 miles) west of the Pacific island of Tonga on Saturday, the U.S.Geological Survey…