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Dhaka: Bangladesh today said there was no direct involvement of the ISIS in the recent attacks, including on Hindus and others minorities, but acknowledged that homegrown Islamist outfits may be trying to establish links with the dreaded terror group through the social media. ... Read more
Nairobi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Kenya from Tanzania on Saturday on the fourth and final leg of his four-nation African tour. ... Read more
Juba (South Sudan): Renewed gunfights broke out across South Sudan's capital on Sunday between forces loyal to the president and those of the vice-president, officials said Sunday, causing widespread casualties and raising fears that the country is returning to civil war. ... Read more
Dar-es-Salaam: India on Sunday handed over to Tanzania a navigational chart of the east African country's Mkoani harbour. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan today accused India of committing human rights violations in Kashmir following the killing of a top Hizbul Mujahideen commander and said the resolution of Kashmir issue is only possible by realising the right to "self determination" of the people there. ... Read more
Dallas: The Black Lives Matter movement isn’t backing down, despite concerns about a backlash after the killings of five police officers by a black sniper in Dallas. ... Read more
Pretoria: Putting emphasis on the investment and diversifying the basket of trade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday has invited South African businesses to participate in its transformation march. ... Read more
Seoul, South Korea: North Korea on Saturday fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile off its eastern coast, but the missile failed in its initial flight stage, claimed South Korea’s army. ... Read more
Juba: Witnesses said heavy gunfire erupted outside the compound of South Sudan's president Friday evening as Salva Kiir was preparing to address the nation on the latest deadly fighting in the capital, Juba. ... Read more
Pyongyang: North Korea has reacted sharply to the US sanctions against its leader Kim Jong-un and termed it a "declaration of war". ... Read more
Pretoria: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today arrived in South Africa in the second leg of his four-nation Africa tour aimed at enhancing ties with the continent, particularly in the economic sphere.
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Washington: Ahead of the crucial ruling by an international arbitral tribunal over the South China Sea dispute, the United States has asked Beijing to learn from India how maritime disputes with neighbours are settled. ... Read more
Dallas: US President Barack Obama has condemned the death of five police officers who were killed in Dallas during protest against the killing of two black men by police this week. ... Read more
Baghdad: An attack carried out by multiple suicide bombers and gunmen on a Shiite shrine in Balad north of Baghdad late on Thursday night killed 30 and wounded 52, according to Iraqi police and hospital officials. ... Read more
Quito: A total of 74 people have died of swine flu in Ecuador, so far this year, the Ministry of Public Health said. ... Read more
London: Conservative lawmakers chose Home Secretary Theresa May and Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom on Thursday to fight a runoff contest for leadership of Britain’s governing party. The winner will become the country’s second female prime minister. ... Read more
Washington: An international tribunal ruling next week on a challenge to China's expansive claims in the South China Sea could determine whether the region is ruled by law or "raw calculations of power," US officials have said. ... Read more
Maputo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met President of the Mozambique National Assembly Veronica Macamo and invited her to lead a parliamentary delegation to India. ... Read more
Maputo (Mozambique): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held bilateral talks with Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi after being accorded a ceremonial welcome at the Presidential Office in Maputo on his arrival here. ... Read more
Washington: President Barack Obama is slated to embark on a five-day, two-country mission to buck up a beleaguered Europe and brush back an aggressive Moscow on what is expected to be his last presidential visit to the continent. ... Read more
Maputo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Mozambique today as part of the first leg of his four nation tour to Africa . His visits are aimed at enhancing ties with countries across the African continent, particularly in the economic sphere and people-to-people contacts. ... Read more
Dhaka: Almost a week after the gruesome Dhaka attack, a bomb explosion rocked Bangladesh's Kishoreganj district today killing four persons including a policeman and leaving several injured. ... Read more
Dhaka: The hostages were given a test: recite verses from the Quran, or be punished, according to a witness. Those who passed were allowed to eat. Those who failed were tortured and slain. ... Read more
London: In a report released today by the head of Britain's Iraq War inquiry, the Iraq war was said to be mounted on flawed intelligence, executed with "wholly inadequate" planning and ending "a long way from success. ... Read more
Sanaa: At least 10 people were killed and dozens wounded after a suicide car bomber struck a military and security compound adjacent to the international airport in southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Wednesday, setting of clashes with soldiers, medical and security officials said. ... Read more
Riyadh: Four security officers were killed and five others wounded after a suicide bomber detonated his vest outside the Prophet’s Mosque in Saudi Arabia's Medina where Mohammed is buried, what is believed to one of Islam's holiest sites. ... Read more
Jeddah: A suspected suicide attacker has died after detonating a device near the US consulate in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, local media reports say. ... Read more
Baghdad: Bombs went off Saturday midnight in two crowded commercial areas in Baghdad, killing at least 82 people and wounding over 200 , according to hospital and police officials. ... Read more
Paris: Former French Socialist Prime Minister Michel Rocard died on Saturday at age 85, the office of President Francois Hollande said in a statement. ... Read more
Rome: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi today condemned the terror attack in Dhaka cafe attack in which 20 hostages lost their lives. ... Read more
Dhaka: The attackers involved in Bangladesh’s worst hostage crisis had asked their victims to recite from the Quran in order to decide on whom to spare, a leading Bangladeshi daily said today on its website. ... Read more
Washington: President Barack Obama is backtracking on his warning that Britain would go to the "back of the queue" for a U.S. trade deal, as he tries to contain the fallout of the U.K.'s decision to leave the European Union. ... Read more
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today vowed to root out terrorism from the country after Islamic State terrorists laid siege to a Dhaka cafe. ... Read more
London: Amidst the ongoing tension over terrorists attacks in various parts of the world, a pro-Islamic State (IS) Twitter account has warned of a lethal attack at the Los Angeles International, John F Kennedy International and Heathrow airport (Britain) as the US prepares to celebrate July 4 Independence Day weekend, media reports said today. ... Read more
London: Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said here in a speech on Friday he has abandoned his target to restore government finances to a surplus by 2020. ... Read more
Dhaka: At least six persons were killed and 18 persons rescued as Bangladeshi forces on Saturday started an operation to free up to 40 hostages, including foreigners, taken by about eight to nine gunmen who attacked a restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of Dhaka on Friday late night. ... Read more
New Delhi: Condemning the terrorist attack on a police convoy in Kabul that killed 37 people, President Pranab Mukherjee has said India will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with Afghanistan in fighting all forms of terrorism effectively. ... Read more
Yangon, MYANMAR: Myanmar's new civilian government rebuffed a United States decision to brand the country as one of the world's worst human trafficking offenders on Friday, calling the move "regrettable" at a time when the nascent democracy is still getting on its feet. ... Read more
DHAKA: A Hindu priest was hacked to death on Friday at a temple in Bangladesh, police and senior administrative officials said. ... Read more
Beijing: China today made it clear that it will not accept ruling by an international tribunal on a case filed by the Philippines relating to territorial and maritime disputes over South China Sea. ... Read more
Beijing: Reacting sharply to the remarks by Tom Shannon, US Under Secretary for Political Affairs, that India failed to get entry into Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) due to China-led opposition, Beijing today said that the United States was ignoring facts in this matter. ... Read more
Washington: The United States has expressed its concern over the efforts that Pakistan is making to combat terrorism in the region. ... Read more
Washington: CIA Director John Brennan has said that the United States of America has a reason to pay attention to what China is doing on a number of fronts. ... Read more
Islamabad: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday granted an extension in the stay of registered Afghan refugees residing in Pakistan for another six months - till December 31, 2016. ... Read more
London: US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that United Kingdom might not ever leave the European Union despite Britain having voted to leave the 28-nation bloc last week. ... Read more
Melbourne: In an apparent hate crime, a mosque in Australia has been targeted with a firebomb and sprayed with anti-Islamic graffiti while hundreds of Muslims including children were inside for evening prayer, prompting the Prime Minister to condemn the incident. ... Read more
Melbourne: A Sikh politician contesting in the upcoming elections from Australia's Greens party has been targeted with "racist flyers" which she claimed were distributedin her electorate here. ... Read more
Rio de Janeiro: For tourists setting foot in Rio de Janeiro this week, there was a distinct lack of hospitality at the airport arrival hall. ... Read more
Istanbul: The death toll from the suicide attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport has risen to 41, with over 230 others injured, according to a statement by Istanbul city governor. ... Read more
Washington: Britain’s decision to leave the EU has put the project of full European integration on pause, US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said. ... Read more
Brussels: Indignant European Union lawmakers pressed Britain to end the uncertainty that has gripped European and global markets, saying Tuesday that if it intends to leave, it should start the process immediately. ... Read more
Washington: India's entry into the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) "substantially bolsters" its effectiveness and would strengthen global non-proliferation efforts, the US has said, citing the country's "excellent" export control credentials. ... Read more
Moscow: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has apologised to Moscow for the death of a Russian pilot who was shot down last year, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. ... Read more
Islamabad: Looking for some damage control after two consecutive diplomatic setbacks, Pakistan is now in search of a new lobbyist in the United States after being refused subsidised rates in the F-16 deal and with the US openly campaigning in favour of inducting India into the NSG, a media report said today. ... Read more
Kathmandu: Over 8,000 boundary pillars at the Nepal-India border will have internationally accepted positioning system using Global Navigation Satellite. ... Read more
Rome: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will rush to Brussels and London on Monday to meet the top British and European Union diplomats, as the world grapples with the implications of Britain's historic vote to leave the European Union. ... Read more
Baghdad: Iraqi forces today retook the city of Fallujah from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and declared it “fully liberated” after a more than a month long military operation, claims a senior Iraqi commander. ... Read more
Clendenin: Surrounded by muddy devastation, Cathy Light and her husband Chris thought it was "heaven sent" they had free burgers to munch on in a Clendenin parking lot. ... Read more
Edinburgh: Scotland's government has said that it wants immediate discussions with European Union in order to protect its position in the bloc. ... Read more
Beijing: At a time when suspicion in Moscow over Beijing’s growing might is increasing with each passing day, Russian President Vladimir Putin today met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing. ... Read more
Beijing: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a mega infrastructure project that is aimed to link Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang province to Gwadar deep sea port in Pakistan, has made progress and benefited local people, a Chinese diplomat said. ... Read more
Beirut: Islamic State militants abducted about 900 Kurdish civilians in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo over the past three weeks, forcing the captives to build fortifications for the extremists in retaliation for a Kurdish-led assault on a nearby IS stronghold, activists said Friday. ... Read more
Washington: For the first 7½ years of his presidency, Barack Obama could rely on the United Kingdom to back him up at nearly every turn, knowing British leaders had both the global clout and shared perspective to be powerful U.S. partners. ... Read more
Canberra: Aircraft wreckage suspected to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been found on an island off Tanzania in East Africa, an Australian official said. ... Read more
Kabul, Afghanistan: The U.S. military has launched its first airstrikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan since President Barack Obama's decision earlier this month to expand America's involvement against the insurgents, U.S. officials said Friday. ... Read more
Pyongyang: The top North Korean official for US relations said on Friday that his country is now a nuclear threat to be reckoned with, and Washington can expect more nuclear tests and missile launches like the ones earlier this week as long as it attempts to force his government's collapse through a policy of pressure and punishment. ... Read more
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday said the UN looks forward to continuing to work with both "important partners" the UK and European Union following the Britains vote to leave the 28-nation bloc. ... Read more
The proposed mechanism will be co-chaired by Aziz and Rabbani and with the participation of the National Security Advisers of the two countries. ... Read more
TAIPEI, Taiwan: Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen departed Friday on her first overseas trip since taking office last month, amid speculation that China may seek to tighten its diplomatic stranglehold on the self-governing island it claims as its own territory. ... Read more
TOKYO : The Japanese government increasingly believes a missile North Korea launched Wednesday was intentionally fired at a higher-than-usual trajectory to shorten the distance it traveled, and that the missile came down roughly on target in an area of the Sea of Japan. ... Read more
London: British politicians today made their final pitch to a bitterly divided electorate on the eve a crucial referendum to persuade undecided voters of the merits of remaining in or leaving the 28-member EU with polls showing a razor-tight race whose outcome could shape Europe's future. ... Read more
Beijing: With India and Pakistan expected to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) tomorrow, China today said it is a "major step forward" for both the South Asian countries to gain entry into the group and contribute to the region's prosperity and stability. ... Read more
Washington: Using unmanned drones to deliver lifesaving vaccines in low- and middle-income countries may help save money as well as improve vaccination rates, a new study suggests. ... Read more
Ankara: Turkey said it will open the Hatay border with Syria during the Muslim festival of Eid ul-Fitr for Syrians in Turkey to return home, the media said Wednesday. ... Read more
Damascus: Syria's President Bashar al-Assad Wednesday ordered Minister of Electricity Emad Khamis to form a new government, the media reported. ... Read more
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has announced a distance education programme for 10 lakh Yemenis from the beginning of the new academic year, the media reported on Wednesday. ... Read more
United Nations: Accusing government entities in Pakistan of aiding terrorist networks in violation of United Nations Security Council mandates, Afghanistan's Permanent Representative Mahmoud Saikal said on Tuesday that Islamabad does not need nuclear deals and F-16s to fight terrorists, rather it requires political will and "honest and police action". ... Read more
Tashkent: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive here tomorrow to attend the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a China-dominated six-nation grouping, which is likely to focus on exploring ways to enhance security cooperation to combat terrorism. ... Read more
Washington: India has sent a letter of request (LoR) to the US seeking to purchase patrol drones for protection and vigilance of its maritime assets in the Indian Ocean, sources said. ... Read more
Sydney: Sexual abuse of teen recruits continues to surface in the Australian Defence Force (ADF). A Royal Commission investigating child abuse in the ADF was today told that teenage recruits were forced to rape each other, often as part of brutal initiation practices. ... Read more
Kabul: At least 27 passengers were kidnapped on Tuesday after Taliban militants intercepted three vehicles in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand. ... Read more
United Nations: Underscoring yoga’s message of promoting harmony, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday asked citizens across nations to commit to unity regardless of ethnicity, faith, gender and sexual orientation. ... Read more
Kabul: Over a dozen Nepalese security guards were killed after a suicide bomber attacked a minibus carrying them today in Kabul along the main road to the eastern city of Jalalabad. ... Read more
Brussels: Belgian authorities charged three men with terror-related crimes after two days of raids and the detention of 40 people in a major investigation which they said required "immediate intervention" because they feared a new attack was close. ... Read more
Moscow: Russia's defense minister visited Syria on Saturday to meet the country's leader and inspect the Russian air base there, a high-profile trip intended to underline Moscow's role in the region. ... Read more
St Petersburg: Refusing to get drawn into the ongoing presidential campaign in the United States, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country is ready to work with anybody who is elected the new president of the United States of America. ... Read more
Moscow: An International Space Station crew including an American, a Briton and a Russian landed safely Saturday in the sun-drenched steppes of Kazakhstan. ... Read more
Washington: The US House of Representatives has rejected by vote two amendments to cut Washington's assistance for Pakistan, the media reported on Saturday. ... Read more
Beijing: China is in talks with India to provide cloud-seeding technology to drought-hit Maharashtra to induce rain and train the staff of local meteorological department. ... Read more
Washington: In a blunt message to Pakistan, the US has said that continued existence of terror safe havens in the country and its inability to take action against them affects their bilateral ties including security assistance. ... Read more
New Delhi: Thailand on Friday said it would further facilitate investments by Indian firms in the Southeast Asian nation and resolved to increase Thai investments into India, following the first meeting of the India-Thailand Joint Business Forum here during the ongoing visit of Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha. ... Read more
Baghdad: In a horrific incident, four married men were stoned to death after they were found to have indulged in ‘committing adultery’ in Iraq. ... Read more
Washington: Amid Pakistan's efforts to drum up support for its NSG membership bid, a Congressional report has said that Islamabad’s full spectrum deterrence nuclear doctrine and increasing fissile production capability have increased the risk of a nuclear conflict with India. ... Read more
Baghdad: Iraqi forces today reclaimed the government complex and a neighborhood that served as a base for the Islamic State group militants after an enormous war against the militant group. ... Read more
Beijing: With Shanghai Cooperation Organisation set to admit India and Pakistan amid growing rancour over their NSG membership bid, a Chinese state-run daily today expressed concern that the hostility between them may have a "negative effect" on the security grouping. ... Read more
Washington: Religious tolerance in India is "deteriorating" while religious freedom violations are "increasing", a rights expert has told American lawmakers. ... Read more
Beijing: China today said President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama has "violated" US' promises on not supporting Tibetan independence and warned that it will hurt bilateral cooperation. ... Read more
Washington: Describing the Islamic State as a formidable adversary, CIA chief today made a candid admission that the US efforts to contain the dreaded terror group have not reduced its terrorism capability and global reach. ... Read more
Benghazi: At least 16 Libyan militia fighters have been killed in two attacks by the Islamic State group as pro-government forces try to dislodge the extremists from Sirte, their last stronghold in the country, officials said today. ... Read more
Tarin Kot: Taliban militants are reportedly using sex slaves, boys in particular, to penetrate into the Afghan police forces and carry out insider attacks. ... Read more
Colombo: Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka YK Sinha today said that India's ties with its southern neighbor Sri Lanka moved ahead after Maithripala Sirisena replaced Mahinda Rajapaksa in January 2015 as the President of Sri Lanka. ... Read more
Windhoek: President Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday arrived in Namibia for a two-day state visit during which key negotiations on Uranium supply for civil nuclear use will take place besides other bilateral issues. ... Read more
Beijing: China today rejected allegation of incursion by its troops in Arunachal Pradesh, saying the Sino-India border has not yet been demarcated and the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army were conducting "normal patrols" on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC). ... Read more
Amarillo (Texas): A SWAT team shot and killed an armed man who took hostages at a Walmart in Amarillo, Texas on Tuesday afternoon. Officers confirmed that all the hostages are now safe. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan has closed the chapter of acquiring eight F-16s from the US and will now opt for Jordan-owned F-16 fighter jets, foreign secretary Aizaz Chaudhry said today amid strains in bilateral ties over the scuttling of the deal and a US drone strike on its soil. ... Read more
Beijing: India is likely to attain full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) within a year, Secretary-General of the six-member political, economic and military alliance led by China and Russia has said. ... Read more
Washington: Terror outfits like the ISIS are "perverting" Islam to justify their "murderous, false agenda" as part of which they claim the mantle of the religion to describe themselves as "holy warriors" fighting with the US, the White House has said. ... Read more
Orlando: Like young people in clubs the world over, Jon Alamo met up with some friends, and then some more friends. He danced in Pulse's main room, where people swayed to the beat of salsa music. Then Alamo drifted into the club's two other rooms, which grooved to more of a hip-hop vibe. He remembers hearing Rihanna's "Work," one of his favorite songs, and grinding to it on the dance floor. ... Read more
Washington: Sikh-Americans, who have faced hate crimes after every major terror attack, are fearing a backlash following the Orlando gay club shooting even as the Obama administration has assured them of their safety. ... Read more
Santa Monica (US): An Indiana man armed with three assault rifles and chemicals used to make explosives was arrested in Southern California on Sunday and told police he was headed to a West Hollywood gay pride parade, an event that annually draws hundreds of thousands of people, authorities said. ... Read more
Accra (Ghana): Terrorism is a scourge which knows no borders and must be eradicated through the collective efforts of the civilised world, President Pranab Mukherjee said here as he expressed solidarity with Ghana which is confronting this challenge. ... Read more
Tehran: Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Iran was the most secure and lucrative market for investments, an official said on Sunday. ... Read more
Beijing: At least four people got injured, including a woman and a Filipino man when a man today threw an “explosive wine bottle” triggering a blast at China’s second biggest airport in the commercial hub of Shanghai. ... Read more
Orlando, Florida: The armed assailant who opened fire in a popular gay club in Orlando state of the US early on Sunday in which several people were injured has been shot dead, claims police. ... Read more
Pittsburg: Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has alleged that China is the "biggest and best abuser" as it was dumping its goods into the US, stealing intellectual property and imposing hefty taxes on American companies doing business in that country. ... Read more
Beirut: Two suicide bombers struck close to the Syrian capital Saturday, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens more in the latest attack to hit the predominantly Shiite area in recent months, state TV and an opposition activist group said. ... Read more
Dhaka: The ISIS today claimed responsibility for the killing of an elderly Hindu ashram worker in Bangladesh, as the Muslim-majority country reels under a series of brutal murders of secular activists and minorities by Islamists. ... Read more
Washington: After months of debate, the White House has approved plans to expand the military's authority to conduct airstrikes against the Taliban when necessary, as the violence in Afghanistan escalates, senior U.S. and defense officials said Thursday. ... Read more
New Delhi/Kolkata: An Indian woman has been abducted in Kabul by suspected militants right outside her office with Ministry of External Affairs saying that officials are in touch with Afghan authorities to seek her early release. ... Read more
Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-day visit to the US this week was “very, very rich and productive” as significant progress was made in wide range of areas from civil nuclear energy to defence and trade, America’s top diplomat in New Delhi has said. ... Read more
Baghdad: At least 22 civilians were killed and 70 others were injured when a suicide car bomb rocked ripped through a commercial area of a majority Shiite neighbourhood in Baghdad today. ... Read more
Mogadishu, Somalia: At least 30 Ethiopian troops were killed Thursday in an attack on a base for African Union peacekeepers in central Somalia, a Somali military official said. ... Read more
Paris: The French government on Wednesday launched a mobile phone application that allows people to be kept constantly informed of terrorist attacks and how to proceed if involved. ... Read more
United Nations: A high-ranking Swedish military official will be the new head of the United Nations mission tasked with monitoring the ceasefire line between India and Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir. ... Read more
Geneva: Satellite images confirm the destruction of the ancient Nabu temple in Iraq, the UN said late today, after the Islamic State group claimed to have blown it up. ... Read more
Mexico City: In a crucial backing to India's NSG membership bid, Mexico today said that it “positively”and “constructively” supports India's membership to Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). ... Read more
Naymiyah: A column of black Humvees carrying Iraqi special forces rolled into southern Fallujah today, the first time in more than two years that government troops have entered the western city held by the Islamic State group. ... Read more
Jerusalem: Two Palestinians opened fire near a popular open-air market in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, killing four Israelis and wounding at least five others in one of the deadliest attacks in an eight-month wave of violence. ... Read more
Kabul: An Afghan official today said the Taliban have killed 12 people they captured in recent ambushes in the increasingly restive southeastern Ghazni province. Gulam Mohammad Tahiri, an Afghan army intelligence officer, said the 12 killed included seven policemen, three soldiers and two officials with the national spy agency. ... Read more
Washington: A bipartisan group of 18 American lawmakers has written to House Speaker Paul Ryan, asking him to raise the issue of religious freedom in India during his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ... Read more
Washington: The US has recognised India as a "major defence partner", a significant development which paves the way for the country to be treated at par with America's closest allies for defence related trade and technology transfer. ... Read more
Washington: The Nuclear Power Corporation of India and US firm Westinghouse have agreed to begin engineering and site design work immediately for six nuclear power plant reactors in India and conclude contractual arrangements by June 2017, the White House said on Tuesday. ... Read more
San Bernardino: A man whose boyfriend was killed in the San Bernardino terror attack criticised Donald Trump’s suggestion that Muslims be banned from entering the US and encouraged tolerance in the wake of the shootings. ... Read more
London: Prime Minister David Cameron has accused campaigners for British exit from the European Union of lying to voters — but says he is not worried that the "remain" side is losing ground. ... Read more
Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come in for praise from the White House over India's fight against climate change ahead of his meeting with US President Barack Obama on Tuesday. ... Read more
Istanbul: A rush-hour car bomb targeted a bus carrying riot police in Istanbul on Tuesday, killing 11 people and wounding 36 others, Istanbul's governor said. ... Read more
New York: At least 25 of a total 60 Indian graduate students at Western Kentucky University have been asked to leave their computer science programme after the first semester as they do not meet its admission standards, a media report said today. ... Read more
Manila: The Philippine president-elect has encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime, urging citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug dealers who resist arrest and fight back in their neighborhoods. ... Read more
Baghdad: In March, a senior commander of the Islamic State (IS) was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone blasted his vehicle to oblivion. ... Read more
Niamey (Niger): Thirty-two troops have been killed in a clash with Boko Haram fighters on Niger's border with Nigeria, Niger's defence ministry said sunday, one of deadliest tolls inflicted by the jihadists. ... Read more
Herat: On the first leg of his five-nation tour, Prime Minister Modi today arrived in Afghanistan’s Herat, where he will inaugurate India-Afghan Friendship Dam earlier known as Salma Dam, along with President President Ashraf Ghani. This is second visit to Afghanistan in less than six months. ... Read more
Miami: Wooing Democratic donors Friday in South Florida, President Barack Obama said the coming election is taking place in a "fascinating media environment" in which "strange things can happen" because celebrity and fame drive so much of the news coverage. ... Read more
Istanbul: Amnesty International on Friday said that the European Union (EU) must immediately halt plans to return asylum-seekers to Turkey on the false pretence that it is a “safe country” for refugees. ... Read more
United Nations: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed shock at the escalating recruitment and killing of children in conflicts last year — especially in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Somalia and South Sudan. ... Read more
London: Leaving the European Union would be an act of "economic self-harm," British Prime Minister David Cameron said during a televised grilling that saw him challenged on the emotive topic of immigration and accused of scaremongering about the impact of quitting the 28-nation bloc. ... Read more
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Afghanistan on Saturday where he will hold talks with President Ashraf Ghani and inaugurate the Afghan-India Friendship Dam, earlier known as Salma Dam, in Herat province. ... Read more
Rabat: Indian Muslims have lived in a religiously pluralistic society over the years and the intermingling has helped develop "an Indo-Islamic culture in India", Vice President M Hamid Ansari said here on Wednesday. ... Read more
London: British special forces are blasting Bollywood music as a new psychological warfare weapon against Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in Libya on the advice of a Pakistani-born intelligence officer, it emerged today. ... Read more
Baghdad: The U.N. children’s fund on Wednesday issued a stark warning to Iraqi troops and Islamic State militants in the battle for Fallujah to spare the children, the most vulnerable among the tens of thousands of civilians who remain trapped by the fighting for control of this city west of Baghdad. ... Read more
Camp Tariq (Iraq): As Iraqi forces pressed an offensive Tuesday to dislodge Islamic State militants from Fallujah, conditions are worsening for tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the city, and a leading aid group raised alarm over an unfolding "human catastrophe." ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan is in negotiations with Russia for buying its MI-35 attack helicopters and a deal could be clinched within two months, Minister for Defence Production Rana Tanveer Hussain has said. ... Read more
Kabul: The number of internally displaced people has doubled to 1.2 million in the past three years due to the escalation in conflict in Afghanistan, Amnesty International said in its report on Tuesday. ... Read more
Jakarta (Indonesia): Indonesia's navy said Monday it fired shots at a Chinese trawler when it refused to stop fishing in Indonesian waters, and then seized the vessel and its eight crewmembers. ... Read more
Seoul: A North Korean missile launch likely failed on Tuesday, according to South Korea's military, the latest in a string of high-profile failures that tempers somewhat recent worries that Pyongyang was pushing quickly toward its goal of a nuclear-tipped missile that can reach America's mainland. ... Read more
London: An Islamic State sleeper cell has plans to carry out attacks targeting English and Russian football fans at Euro 2016 during a match in Marseilles, data retrieved from the main Paris attacks suspect's laptop reveal, according to The Sun. ... Read more
Islamabad: A top Pakistan court today issued notices to the seven Mumbai attack case accused, including 26/11 mastermind Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, and the government over the prosecution’s plea to form a commission to examine the boat used by the 10 LeT terrorists to reach India. ... Read more
Baghdad: Militants unleashed a wave of attacks targeting commercial areas in and around Baghdad today, killing at least 20 people, officials said as Iraqi troops poised to recapture the Islamic State-held city of Fallujah, west of Iraq’s capital. ... Read more
Banghdad: Iraqi forces started pushing into the city of Fallujah on Monday as a wave of bombings claimed by the Islamic State group in Baghdad and near the Iraqi capital killed at least 24 people. ... Read more
Karachi: A Chinese engineer was among the three people injured on Monday when suspected militants triggered a remote-controlled explosion in this Pakistani city, with pamphlets recovered from the site denouncing “foreign control” over Sindh’s natural resources. ... Read more
New York: Citing 'Make in India' and 'Start Up India' campaigns for boosting manufacturing and employment, tech giant Cisco's Chairman John Chambers has said the next US President should take a cue from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and outline the plan for growth of the American economy. ... Read more
Beirut: Al-Qaida's branch in Syria has recruited thousands of fighters, including teenagers, and taken territory from government forces in a successful offensive in the north, illustrating how the cease-fire put in place by Russia and the United States to weaken the militants has in many ways backfired. ... Read more
Kathmandu: Nearly 300 people have died on Mount Everest in the century or so since climbers have been trying to reach its summit. At least 100 of them are still on the mountain, perhaps 200. ... Read more
Islamabad: The father of Pakistan's nuclear programme Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan on Saturday said that the country could have become a nuclear power as early as 1984 but the then President General Zia ul Haq "opposed the move". ... Read more
Pozzallao, Italy: Three shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea south of Italy are thought to have claimed lives of more than 700 migrants over the past few days as they tried to reach Europe in unseaworthy smuggling boats, the U.N. refugee agency said on Sunday. ... Read more
Ankara: Turkey's state-run news agency says US-led coalition airstrikes and Turkish artillery fire against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria have killed 104 militants. ... Read more
Text of President Barack Obama's remarks Friday at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park about the U.S. atomic bombing, the legacy of World War II and nuclear weapons, as delivered: ... Read more
Beijing: China has said that it was strongly dissatisfied with a statement by G7 members, in which they expressed concern over the South China Sea. ... Read more
Beirut: Militants of the Islamic State group Friday seized at least six villages from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border in rapid advances that forced the evacuation of a crucial hospital amid heavy fighting in the area, Syrian opposition activists and an international medical organisation said. ... Read more
Tokyo: President Barack Obama on Friday arrived in Hiroshima, the first visit by a sitting US president to the site of the world's first atomic bombing. ... Read more
Shima (Japan): The leaders of the Group of Seven rich economies pledged Friday to "collectively tackle" major risks to global growth, including direct political threats to the international order from terrorist attacks, violent extremism and refugee flows. ... Read more
London: A long lost British Second World War submarine that vanished 73 years ago has been found with 71 dead bodies of crew off the coast of Italy. ... Read more
Beijing: China's military rejected US claims on China's "unsafe" intercept of an American Navy reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea, and demanded the US ends such action. ... Read more
Japan: Every gesture. Every word uttered or avoided. Every person Barack Obama speaks with, listens to and stands beside in Hiroshima. All of it will help determine the success of a trip with huge potential political and diplomatic pitfalls, both in America and Asia. ... Read more
Rome: Some 4,100 people were rescued off the Libyan coasts on Thursday, Italian officials said. ... Read more
Kinshasa: Police in Congo's capital Kinshasa fired tear gas to break up an opposition march today. ... Read more
Washington: Nuclear weapons in Pakistan’s hands have “corrosively destabilising” effects in the region and provide a license for the country’s sub-conventional wars against India, a top American expert has said. ... Read more
Geneva: Muslim school students in the Swiss canton of Basel cannot refuse to shake hands with their female teachers on religious grounds, otherwise their parents will face fines, local authorities have ruled. ... Read more
Kabul: A suicide bomber has struck a vehicle carrying court employees in Kabul, killing 10 people. ... Read more
Albuquerque: Protests outside a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico turned violent Tuesday night as demonstrators threw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at police officers, overturned trash cans and knocked down barricades. ... Read more
Islamabad: The US drone attack on Pakistan's soil to kill Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Mansour is detrimental to bilateral ties, Pakistan army chief General Raheel Sharif said today. ... Read more
Guangzhou: The 21st century becoming the “Asian Century” largely depends on the achievements of India and China, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Tuesday. ... Read more
Mosul (Iraq): Islamic State fighters are abandoning their off-road vehicles and using taxis in this northern Iraqi city to avoid being targeted by war planes from the US-led coalition, local media reported. ... Read more
Vietnam: After knocking down one of the last vestiges of Cold War antagonism with a former war enemy, President Barack Obama on Tuesday takes his push for closer ties directly to the Vietnamese people. Amid the geopolitical statecraft, he faces calls to more strongly address what's seen as an abysmal human rights record. ... Read more
Washington: A Senate panel has approved a legislation which blocks USD 300 million US military aid to Pakistan unless the Defence Secretary certifies to the Congress that Islamabad is taking demonstrable steps against the Haqqani terror network. ... Read more
Beijing: Having already expanded its influence in Nepal with road and rail network through Tibet, China is now looking to stretch its railway link to Bihar to improve connectivity with India and South Asia, state-run Chinese media reported today. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan summoned US ambassador David Hale on Monday to express concern over the drone strike by American forces in Pakistani territory to kill Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour, which it said was a “violation of its sovereignty”. ... Read more
Colombo: The former president of the Maldives said Monday that he's been granted political asylum in Britain where he had traveled for medical treatment on leave from serving a prison sentence in his country. ... Read more
Moscow: A US defence attaché has been summoned by Russia's Defence Ministry after an incident over the Sea of Japan near Russia's eastern borders, where an American spy plane was detected flying too close to civilian aircraft. ... Read more
Tehran: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today departed from Tehran for New Delhi at the conclusion of his two-day visit to Iran, saying the outcomes "will positively impact" bilateral ties. ... Read more
Bangkok: India, Thailand and Myanmar are working on a 1,400-kilometre long highway that will link India with Southeast Asia by land for the first time in decades, giving a boost to trade and cultural exchanges between the three countries. ... Read more
Hanoi: President Barack Obama said that the death of Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour marks an "important milestone" in the longstanding effort to bring peace to Afghanistan. ... Read more
Beirut: A series of coordinated explosions including suicide bombings rocked two normally quiet coastal government strongholds in Syria today, killing more than 120 people and wounding 200 others, state media and opposition activists said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks. ... Read more
Sanaa (Yemen): Two suicide attacks have killed at least 45 people in army and injured dozens more in the southern Yemeni city of Aden. ... Read more
Tehran: India will invest billions of dollars in setting up industries -- ranging from aluminum smelter to urea plants -- in Irans Chabahar free trade zone after it signed a pact to operate a strategic port on the Persian Gulf nations southern coast. ... Read more
Tehran: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was accorded ceremonial welcome at the forecourts of the Saadabad Palace in Tehran today. He was accompanied by the President of Iran, Dr Hassan Rouhani. Later, both the leaders had a restricted meeting. ... Read more
Syria: On a secret trip to Syria, the new commander of US forces in the Middle East said he felt a moral obligation to enter a war zone to check on his troops and make his own assessment of progress in organizing local Arab and Kurd fighters for what has been a slow campaign to push the Islamic State group out of Syria. ... Read more
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron said Sunday that he'd be happy to meet Donald Trump if he becomes the Republican presidential candidate. ... Read more
Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the beginning of military operations to retake the Islamic State-held held city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, in a televised address on Sunday night. ... Read more
Gamber: The death toll in the eruption of a volcano in western Indonesia rose to seven on Sunday, with two other people in critical condition, as an official warned of more eruptions. ... Read more
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said the Centre is taking all steps needed to protect the country and asserted that the people of all religions and castes will fight the terror forces “with all their might.” ... Read more
Tehran: Looking to strengthen trade, investment and energy ties with Iran, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today arrived here on a two-day official visit, offered prayers at the Bhai Ganga Singh Sabha Gurudwara. ... Read more
Dhaka: At least 24 people were killed and over 100 others injured as cyclone Roanu pounded coastal areas of Bangladesh on Saturday, leaving a trail of destruction and forcing half a million people to flee their homes. ... Read more
Japan: Britain’s possible exit from the European Union took centre stage at a G7 meeting in Japan today, as UK finance minister George Osborne warned a ‘Brexit’ could doom trade deals with EU countries. ... Read more
Sioux falls, South Dakota: Despite the drawn-out primary fight, Bill Clinton says he thinks Democrats will be able to “be together in the end.” ... Read more
Islamabad: The country head of Al Qaeda in Pakistan, Tayyab Nawaz alias Hafiz Abdul Mateen, was killed during an armed offensive by police in the country's east Multan city. ... Read more
Iraq: The top American general for the Middle East said Friday he is confident that Iraq is on course to defeating the Islamic State, but his words were spare and cautious, his tone notably muted. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan Friday said that it has formally applied for the membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, after China blocked India's entry into the 48-member elite group. ... Read more
Taipei: Taiwan inaugurated Tsai Ing-wen as its first female president on Friday, returning the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party to power amid new concerns over increasingly fractious relations with Beijing and a flagging economy. ... Read more
Tokyo: A group representing Japanese survivors of US atomic bombings urged President Barack Obama to hear their stories and apologise when he visits Hiroshima next week. ... Read more
Cairo: Egyptian air and naval forces have found some of the passengers’ “personal belongings” and debris of EgyptAir flight 804, which crashed while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo, the army said today. ... Read more
Rome: Marco Pannella, civil rights campaigner and founder of Italy's Radical Party, who played a key role in campaigns to legalise divorce and abortion in the overwhelmingly Catholic country, died today, his party said. He was 86. ... Read more
Toronto: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologised “unreservedly” for making physical contact with a female Opposition member of Parliament, who said Trudeau elbowed her in the chest as he waded through a group of lawmakers. ... Read more
Egypt: An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers is most likely crashed into the sea, said Ihab Raslan, a spokesman for the Egyptian civil aviation authority, according to a report by the Abu Dhabi-based SkyNews Arabia. However, Raslan later told The Associated Press that it was too early to tell if the plane had crashed. ... Read more
Tokyo: US government officials today looked over the route that President Barack Obama will take during his visit to Hiroshima in Japan next week. ... Read more
United Nations: Major Western nations are protesting a move to block gay and transgender groups from attending a high-level United Nations conference on AIDS. ... Read more
Beirut: Russia has built a military encampment inside a zone that holds the UNESCO world heritage site in the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra, where Islamic State militants were driven out recently by pro-government forces. ... Read more
Nigeria: One of the teenagers kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists over two years ago from a boarding school in northeastern Nigeria has been found with a four month old baby and reunited with her mother, a doctor said Wednesday — the first of the Chibok girls to be recovered since the mass abduction. ... Read more
Quito: Two powerful earthquakes jolted Ecuador on Wednesday, a magnitude 6.7 early morning temblor followed by a 6.8 shake near midday. ... Read more
New Delhi: Prosecution of jihadis in Pakistan is difficult as the system considers them to be "the good guys", according to Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's former envoy to the US. ... Read more
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee will visit China from May 24 to 27 during which he will hold talks with the top Chinese leadership, the Foreign Ministry here said today, announcing the first trip to the county by an Indian Head of State in six years. ... Read more
Washington: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he's open to speaking with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to halt the communist nation's nuclear program. ... Read more
New York: India is projected to add 300 million new urban residents by 2050 and it will need to build climate-friendly cities to address the challenge of accommodating the needs of the growing population, a UN report has said. ... Read more
Baghdad: At least 44 people were killed and more than 90 injured in two bomb attacks in Baghdad on Tuesday, media reports said. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan today said it has expressed "serious concern" to the UN over a draft bill in the Indian Parliament over the map of Kashmir and called upon the world body to uphold its resolutions and urge India to stop such acts which are in "violation of international law". ... Read more
Beijing: Pakistan's powerful Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif met top Chinese leaders and military officials here and discussed ways to enhance bilateral economic and security ties. ... Read more
Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday announced in Montreal that he will introduce legislation "to ensure the full protection of transgender people" on Tuesday, which is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. ... Read more
United Nations: Former British Prime Minster Gordon Brown on Monday announced the creation of the United Nations’ first humanitarian fund for the education of refugee children. ... Read more
Sibolangit: Rescuers found on Monday the bodies of 17 people who were among 20 university students and two guides who went missing in rain-triggered floods and landslides at a popular waterfall in western Indonesia, an official said. ... Read more
Jordan: The Obama administration's diplomatic point man in the fight against the Islamic State group said Sunday that the extremists have been losing control over territory and that "this perverse caliphate is shrinking." ... Read more
Beijing: Notwithstanding the US' strong backing for India to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group, China today harped on the need for consensus in the elite body where it is reportedly pushing for Pakistan's entry. ... Read more
Beijng: Asking the US to respect the efforts by China and India to resolve their boundary dispute peacefully, a top Chinese official today said the two nations are wise enough to deal with it after the Pentagon accused Beijing of deploying more troops along the Sino-India borders. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister's Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz, in an response to India's supersonic interceptor missile test, today said that Islamabad would address the development at an international level. ... Read more
Stockholm: A Ryanair plane headed for Manchester, Britain, was evacuated before takeoff due to a bomb scare at Rygge airport outside Oslo, police said. ... Read more
Baghdad: The Islamic State group launched a coordinated assault on a natural gas plant north of Baghdad that killed at least 14 people, while a string of other bomb attacks in or close to the capital killed 15 others, Iraqi officials said. ... Read more
Aden: A suicide bomber on today detonated his explosives among policemen standing in line outside a police base in the southern Yemeni city of Mukalla, killing 37 recruits. ... Read more
Kabul: After Pakistan, which pulled out of India-mooted South Asian Satellite Project, Afghanistan too has shown no interest in the venture. ... Read more
Caracas: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered the military to hold military exercises within a week to counter foreign threats. ... Read more
Ujjain: Visiting Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Saturday said his country shares cordial and deep relations with India and more closer ties will be ensured in the future. ... Read more
Washington: China has reclaimed more than 3,200 acres of land in the south-eastern South China Sea. But the country's focus has shifted to developing and weaponising those man-made islands so it will have greater control over the maritime region without resorting to armed conflict, according to a new Pentagon report. ... Read more
Damascus: A car bomb went off in the predominantly Kurdish city of Al Qamishli in northeastern Syria on Saturday, killing at least five people, pro-government Sama TV reported. ... Read more
Dhaka: Bangladesh today accused Pakistan of breaching the post-1971 liberation war agreement by not taking back thousands of its stranded citizens, affecting the validity of the treaty. ... Read more
Baghdad: Nineteen Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in clashes in Iraq, security sources said on Saturday. ... Read more
Beirut: Top military commander Mustafa Badreddine, who died in an explosion in Damascus, is the latest of a number of senior figures from the Lebanese Shiite guerrilla group to be killed in past years. ... Read more
Washington: The US is committed to maintaining its "important" and "vital" relationship with Pakistan, the Obama Administration said today amid reports of strains in bilateral ties. ... Read more
Beijing: China aims to complete the reform of its 2.3-million-strong army and have the most modern armed forces capable of 'informationised warfare' by 2020, laying a solid foundation for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to become a world-class force, according to the new five-year military development plan. ... Read more
Brasilia: Brazilian acting President Michel Temer on Thursday chose leading figures from nine centrist and conservative parties for his cabinet, which for the first time in decades has no female ministers. ... Read more
Brasilla: Brazil's Senate has voted 55-22 to impeach the South American giant's first woman president Dilma Rousseff. President Dilma Rousseff is accused of using accounting tricks to hide large budget deficits. ... Read more
Beijing: In a strategic move to cut landlocked Nepal's dependence on India, China has opened a combined road and rail service to Kathmandu through rugged mountain ranges of Tibet to boost supplies to the country and reduce transit time by more than a month. ... Read more
Washington: When President Barack Obama tours Hiroshima's haunting relics of nuclear warfare, he will be making a trip that past administrations weighed and avoided. For good reason: The hollowed core of the city's A-Bomb Dome and old photos of charred children are sure to rekindle questions of guilt and penitence for World War II's gruesome brutality. ... Read more
Dhaka: India on Thursday conveyed its strong support to Bangladesh in its fight against extremism and terror. ... Read more
Baghdad: An explosives-laden car bomb ripped through a commercial area in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad today, killing at least 50 people and wounding dozens in an attack that was swiftly claimed by the extremist Islamic State group. ... Read more
United Nations: Describing the challenge posed by the growing terror threat as "daunting", India has called on the UN to do more to combat the scourge and emphasised that "genuine and effective" global cooperation is essential for achieving zero tolerance towards terrorism. ... Read more
London: Kuwaiti-born Ali Alosaimi trained on a Merchant Navy course in Britain before allegedly fleeing to join Islamic State, leading to concerns his knowledge could be used to attack shipping. ... Read more
Washington: Iran has taken "significant steps" to roll back its nuclear programme under which it has eliminated 98 per cent of its highly enriched uranium stockpile and disconnected thousands of centrifuges, the US has said. ... Read more
Washington: In a moment seven decades in the making, President Barack Obama this month will become the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb, decimated a city and shot the world into the Atomic Age. ... Read more
Fort McMurray (Alberta): The images are ones of devastation — scorched homes, virtually whole neighborhoods burned to the ground. It rained a little Sunday morning in Fort McMurray, but Canadian officials say they expect to fight the massive wildfire that has destroyed large parts of Alberta's oil sands town for months. ... Read more
Dhaka: A two-day nationwide shutdown called by the Jamaat-e-Islami began today in Bangladesh against a Supreme Court verdict upholding the death penalty for its chief for the 1971 war crimes. ... Read more
Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said during a critical ruling party congress that his country will not use its nuclear weapons first unless its sovereignty is invaded, state media reported Sunday. ... Read more
Washington: US President Barack Obama said on Saturday that the country is “a better place today” than when he graduated from college more than 30 years ago, citing his historic election as “one indicator of how attitudes have changed.” ... Read more
Karachi: Akram Zaki, a social media campaigner and human rights activist known for his strong stance against religious extremism in Pakistan was killed by unknown assailants in the country's financial capital of Karachi. ... Read more
Beijing: China on Friday said it will continue to exercise its sovereignty over the South China Sea regardless of the outcome of the ongoing case in a UN-appointed tribunal, which is widely expected to deliver its verdict favouring the Philippines. ... Read more
Kathmandu: The Nepal government on Friday decided to recall its ambassador to India Deep Kumar Uphadhya, appointed to the position last year in April from the Nepali Congress quota, informed sources said. ... Read more
Washington: A former CIA station chief in Pakistan, who presided over the May 2011 raid that killed al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, is believed to have been poisoned by the ISI, a media report said on Friday. ... Read more
New York: Donald Trump is struggling in his efforts to unify the Republican Party behind his presidential campaign, the difficulty immediately underscored Thursday by a startling exchange of negative comments with GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan who said he was not ready to support him. ... Read more
Washington: In the wake of the public firestorm sparked by the Panama Papers scandal, the Obama administration has announced several new rules to combat financial crimes and close current loopholes in the US system that allow foreigners to hide assets in American accounts. ... Read more
Dhaka: After a Dhaka University professor asked a woman to remove her veil during his class, Muslim extremists called for his death, posting his personal details online along with tips on how to kill. ... Read more
Kathmandu: Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari's upcoming visit to India has been cancelled, officials said today but they did not disclose the reason for the abrupt cancellation. ... Read more
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron will not apologize to US presidential hopeful Donald Trump for calling him “divisive, stupid, and wrong”, a spokesperson for 10 Downing Street has said. ... Read more
Washington: An Army Captain is suing US President Barack Obama, arguing that the war against the Islamic State is illegal because it has not been authorized by the Congress. ... Read more
Islamabad: A top Pakistani court has ordered authorities to provide information about the arrest and expected date of release of a 31-year-old Indian man arrested in 2012 for illegally entering the country from Afghanistan reportedly to meet a girl he had befriended online. ... Read more
Islamabad: The US has "absolutely no intention" of diminishing its relationship with Pakistan, the US State Department has said. ... Read more
Beijing: Flexing muscles, China kicked off military exercises in the disputed South China Sea, east Indian Ocean and West Pacific involving advanced warships, helicopters and "special warfare" soldiers. ... Read more
Rome: One of two Italian marines facing trial for the killing of two Indian fishermen will return home "in a few weeks", Italian Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti said on Tuesday. ... Read more
Lahore: Pakistan is readying a special force of 4,000 security personnel to protect Chinese nationals working at various projects in Punjab province, including the strategic USD 46 billion economic corridor project. ... Read more
Washington: Pakistan has time till May end to avail the American offer to procure eight F-16s at an estimated cost of $700 million after Obama administration told Islamabad that it should put forward national funds to buy these fighter jets. ... Read more
Indianapolis: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ended his presidential campaign Tuesday, eliminating the biggest impediment to Donald Trump's march to the Republican nomination. ... Read more
Islamabad: Chief of Pakistan's banned JuD, Hafiz Saeed, has said his organisation will not allow destruction of Hindu temples and other holy places of non-Muslims in the country. ... Read more
United Nations: UN chief Ban Ki-moon has lauded efforts of four social activists including an Indian for their leadership and fresh thinking, and working towards improving sanitation facilities. ... Read more
Washington: The US should designate Pakistan among nations listed as worst violators of religious freedom due to frequent attacks on minorities including Hindus in the country, an independent US religious commission has recommended to the Obama administration. ... Read more
Washington: Senior Pakistani leadership knew that Osama bin Laden was hiding at a compound in Abbottabad but US has not been able to get any proof of it so far, said Hillary Clinton, who was the Secretary of State at the time of the operation and is presently the Democratic presidential front-runner. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan has condemned US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's remark that he would ensure Pakistani physician Shakil Afridi, who has helped the US kill Osama bin Laden, is freed from jail within two minutes. ... Read more
Istanbul: The Turkish military says its forces have hit Islamic State positions in Syria, killing 34 militants. ... Read more
London: Islamic State (ISIS) technicians are working to develop a Google-style driverless car that could navigate itself into a crowded area before detonating an explosive device, a NATO security expert has warned. ... Read more
Washington: Scrambling to resuscitate a nearly dead truce in Syria, the Obama administration has again been forced to turn to Russia for help, with little hope for the desired U.S. outcome. ... Read more
Auckland: President Pranab Mukherjee today said friendship between India and New Zealand will continue to strengthen. ... Read more
London: Islamic State (ISIS) hackers have published a “hitlist” of over 70 US military personnel who have been involved in drone strikes against terror targets in Syria and asked their followers to “kill them wherever they are”. ... Read more
Berlin: The two teenagers suspected of carrying out a bomb attack on a gurudwara in the German city of Essen wanted to cause maximum casualties by detonating the explosives inside but were unable to break into the Sikh temple, investigators have said. ... Read more
Dhaka: The Islamic State (IS) terror group has claimed responsibility of killing a Hindu tailor in Bangladesh's Tangail district. ... Read more
Washington: The situation is "very complex" and there is a threat "on the ground" in Bangladesh, the US has said after a series of bloody attacks on secular writers and minorities in the Muslim-majority country were claimed by ISIS and al-Qaeda. ... Read more
Auckland: President Pranab Mukherjee and a Maori chief rubbed noses in a traditional welcome after his arrival in New Zealand on Saturday on the second and final leg of a two-nation tour. ... Read more
Burlingame (California): Donald Trump took his outsider campaign to the inner sanctum of California's Republican party, making his case directly to the GOP's state party convention even as angry demonstrators shadowed him outside in a possible harbinger of the controversy he will bring as the nominating process shifts toward the nation's most populous and diverse state. ... Read more
Geneva: It’s one of the physics world’s most complex machines, and it has been immobilized - temporarily - by a weasel. ... Read more
Washington: A US gunship attack on a hospital in Afghanistan that killed 42 people occurred because of human errors, process errors and equipment failures and none of the crew knew they were striking a trauma center, a top U.S. general said Friday. ... Read more
Washington: Scores of protesters took to the streets outside Donald Trump campaign event in California, drawing out police officers in riot and tactical gear to disperse the crowd. ... Read more
Seoul: North Korea attempted unsuccessfully to launch two suspected powerful intermediate-range missiles on Thursday, South Korean defense officials said, bringing the number of apparent failures in recent weeks to three. ... Read more
Moscow: Moscow will join the global battle against tax evasion and other illicit activities by signing up to an international scheme to stamp out fiscal cheating, Russia's finance minister said on Thursday. ... Read more
Washington: The United States said it was "deeply concerned" after China passed a controversial new law today giving police wide-ranging powers over overseas charities. ... Read more
Port Moresby (PNG): With a focus on developing strong relations with Pacific Island nations, President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday arrived in the capital of Papua New Guinea here, the first ever visit by an Indian head of state since India established diplomatic ties with the country in 1975. ... Read more
Geneva: The U.N. envoy for Syria appealed to the U.S. and Russia to intervene to help revive Syrian peace talks that sputtered to a pause Wednesday, saying a recent spike in fighting has overshadowed the talks and put an increasingly feeble truce in "great danger." ... Read more
Washington: A top US official today accused Pakistan of "not taking action" against terrorist groups that threaten its neighbours and pressed it to act against all such dreaded outfits including Haqqani Network, LeT and JeM. ... Read more
Washington: The White House today strongly defended President Barack Obama's foreign policy, asserting that it increased the stature of America, made the country safe and resulted in a stronger national economy. ... Read more
Istanbul: A suicide bomber blew herself up Wednesday in the Turkish city of Bursa, wounding at least 13 people, officials said. ... Read more
Vienna: UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called for the US, China and other nuclear-armed states to end the "madness" of atomic testing by finally ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which turns 20 this year. ... Read more
Kathmandu: Nepal is set to mobilise over 1,300 engineers this week as part of the post-quake reconstruction campaign, Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli said on Wednesday. ... Read more
Washington: The US military conducted "freedom of navigation" operations against 13 countries last year, including India and China, according to an annual Pentagon report. ... Read more
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Monday approved a long-awaited plan laying out reform priorities for the next decade and a half, setting in motion what is likely to be a period of significant economic change in the oil-rich kingdom. ... Read more
Beijing: A day after India cancelled the visa of Uyghur activist Dolkun Isa, China said on Tuesday that it had approached the Indian side through diplomatic channels against his visit to Dharamsala for a global Uyghur meet. ... Read more
Seoul: North Korea is believed to have placed a new, powerful midrange missile on standby for an impending launch, a news report said today. ... Read more
Hannover, German: President Barack Obama on Monday announced the deployment to Syria of an additional 250 U.S. special operations forces to assist local troops who are trying to dislodge Islamic State extremists, significantly broadening the American presence in the war-torn country. ... Read more
Hannover: US President Barack Obama has rejected North Korea's proposal to suspend United States annual military exercises with South Korea if Washington wants Pyongyang to halt its nuclear tests. ... Read more
Seoul: North Korea has fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in eastern waters marking Pyongyang's latest effort to expand its military might in face of pressure by its neighbours and Washington. ... Read more
New York: North Korea’s foreign minister said on Saturday in an interview with The Associated Press that his country is ready to halt its nuclear tests if the United States suspends its annual military exercises with South Korea. ... Read more
Quito: The death toll from last week's devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake in Ecuador has risen to 654 with another 58 people missing. ... Read more
San Francisco: The solar-powered aeroplane, Solar Impulse, reached the San Francisco Bay area and performed a fly-by over the Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday afternoon following 56 hours of flight over the Pacific Ocean as part of its journey around the world. ... Read more
Washington: After flying through Bahrain, Egypt, France, Portugal and Canada, 12 Indian Air Force aircraft, including the Russian origin Su30 MKI, reached the United States to take part in the prestigious Red Flag air exercise. ... Read more
Hanover: Thousands of opponents of a proposed transatlantic trade deal poured onto German streets saturday on the eve of a visit by US President Barack Obama. ... Read more
Yola (Nigeria): “Bring Back Our Girls,” say the placards in the park and the tweets read around the world. But for thousands of girls and women who've escaped Boko Haram's clutches, the message they've sometimes encountered at homecomings has been “Stay Away.” ... Read more
London: President Barack Obama plunged into a whirlwind of royal socializing on Friday that began over a birthday lunch with Queen Elizabeth II and ended at a dinner hosted by the trio of young royals who represent the future of the British monarchy. ... Read more
London: US President Barack Obama arrived here with a message for the UK to vote to remain within the European Union in the June 23 referendum, saying the bloc "enhances Britains global leadership". ... Read more
Washington: The US has said it would buy 32 metric tonnes of Iranian heavy water, a key component in atomic-weapons development, worth USD 8.6 million to help Tehran meet its obligations under the landmark nuclear deal signed last year. ... Read more
Washington: Twenty civilians were likely killed in US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria between September and February, said the US Central Command in a statement on its website on Friday. ... Read more
London: Around 70 of the 350 British terror suspects who travelled to Syria to join IS and returned home may be plotting attacks in the UK, a report said on Thursday. ... Read more
Paris: Several foreign journalists previously held hostage by the Islamic State in Syria have identified one of the bombers in the deadly attacks in Brussels that claimed the lives of 31 people as one of their prison guards, a news agency quoted sources close to the investigations as saying. ... Read more
Beijing: India and China on Wednesday held the 19th round of talks to resolve the vexed border dispute amid a growing discord between the two nations over Beijing blocking India’s bid to get JeM chief Masood Azhar banned by the UN. ... Read more
Canberra: The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) on Wednesday released a Technical Examination Report which has definitively said the debris found in Mozambique originated from lost Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. ... Read more
Washington: US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin today agreed to assist further in securing a cessation of hostilities in Syria. ... Read more
London: The people should "respect" the Indian government's decision on 108-carat unique Kohinoor diamond and support it, Britain's longest serving MP of Asian origin in the House of Commons Keith Vaz said today. ... Read more
Washington: The US has expressed concern over China landing its military jets on a man-made island in South China Sea and asked Beijing to keep its prior commitments not to deploy military aircraft at its outposts. ... Read more
Rome: Over 400 migrants were believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean on Monday after four boats capsized and another began to sink, according to reports. ... Read more
Brasilia: Brazil President Dilma Rousseff has said that she is "indignant" over a congressional vote to open impeachment proceedings against her and vowed to fight what she called the injustice. She again categorically ruled out resigning. ... Read more
Baghdad: The U.S. has agreed to deploy more than 200 additional troops to Iraq and to send eight Apache helicopters for the first time into the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq, the first major increase in U.S. forces in nearly a year, U.S. defense officials said Monday. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan Army Chief General Raheel Sharif announced on Monday the successful completion of operation against militants in difficult mountainous terrain of North Waziristan tribal region. ... Read more
Pedernales: Aid began to flow in Sunday to areas devastated by Ecuador's strongest earthquake in decades and the death toll continued to rise as people left homeless hunkered down for another night outside in the dark. ... Read more
Seoul: South Korea's President said Monday that there are signs that North Korea is preparing for a fifth nuclear bomb test amid reports of increased activity at the country's main nuclear test site. ... Read more
Tokyo: At least 41 people were killed in a strong earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale that struck the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan. ... Read more
Quito: At least 41 people were killed after a powerful, 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Ecuador's central coast on Saturday, cracking buildings and rattling homes as far away as the capital of Quito. ... Read more
Singapore: Underlining that India is too big to get ignored, Singapore’s former foreign minister George Yeo has said the strategic “sweet spot” the country has found itself in is helping it attract investment and extend global influence in all directions. ... Read more
Washington: Calling the Islamic State as the "most dangerous" terror organisation, US National Security Advisor Susan Rice Friday said America has a four-point strategy to fight the dreaded militant group which poses an "enormous" threat to civilians under its brutal reign. ... Read more
Seoul: A North Korean launch of a missile on the birthday of its revered founder appears to have failed, South Korean and U.S. defense officials said Friday. ... Read more
Moscow: Russia's defense ministry has rejected complaints by U.S. officials who said Russian attack planes buzzed dangerously close to a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Baltic Sea this week. ... Read more
Washington: The US has asked Pakistan to target all militant groups, following the release of a latest American State Department cable which suggested strong links between Pakistan's notorious spy agency ISI and the Haqqani Network. ... Read more
Tokyo: At least nine people were killed and hundreds injured after 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Japan late on Thursday. The Japan Meteorological Agency, however, did not issue a tsunami warning but said that dozens of smaller aftershocks may be followed. ... Read more
Tokyo: A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 struck southern Japan today, causing some damage but there was no danger of a tsunami. ... Read more
Lagos (Nigeria): Nigeria's Kaduna state government has said it secretly buried hundreds of minority Shiite Muslims in a mass grave, after the victims were killed in army raids that underline ongoing impunity despite President Muhammadu Buhari's promises to end military abuses. ... Read more
Washington: Russian attack planes buzzed a US Navy destroyer in the Baltic Sea multiple times on Monday and Tuesday, coming as close as an estimated 30 feet from the ship and twice passing below the ship's navigation bridge. ... Read more
Dubai: A majority of young Arabs regard Islamic State as the "biggest obstacle" facing the Middle East region and believe the terror group will fail to establish a caliphate, a new survey has found. ... Read more
London: New information retrieved from the laptop of one of the suicide bombers involved in the Brussels terror attack last month has revealed that Britain was also on their hit list. ... Read more
New York: Nigeria-based extremist group Boko Haram is increasingly using children in "suicide" attacks, a UNICEF report released on Tuesday said. ... Read more
Islamabad: An alleged Indian spy arrested in Pakistan has been charged with sabotage and terrorism related charges, a newspaper said on Tuesday. ... Read more
Washington: The US State Department has issued a travel warning for the US citizens planning to visit Saudi Arabia ahead of President Barack Obama's visit to the Gulf country. ... Read more
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