International

Kiev: Hopes for a settlement of Ukraine’s three-month crisis are evaporating tonight in what is potentially its most serious escalation yet amid scenes of rioting, […]

Bangkok: A Thai police officer was killed by a gunshot to the head as authorities launched an operation to clear anti-government protesters from streets in […]

Abuja: At least 90 people were killed in an attack launched by insurgents in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno, the stronghold of Boko Haram sect […]

Islamabad: Taliban militants on late Sunday night claimed to have killed 23 security personnel kidnapped in 2010 in the country’s northwestern tribal region of Mohmand […]

Geneva: Swiss police have detained the co-pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that was forced to land at Geneva’s international airport early today morning. Police […]

Kathmandu: Security personnel looking for the missing Nepal Airlines plane recovered 18 bodies and the plane’s wreckage at Arghakhanchi district today. With this, it is […]

Geneva: U.N.-brokered peace talks resume Saturday between Syria’s government and opposition delegations, with both sides far apart on any possible agreement. U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi meets […]

Karachi: A car bomb targeting a police bus today claimed the lives of 12 policemen and left 55 others injured, officials said. The attack took […]

Kabul:  The U.S. military on Tuesday slammed Afghanistan for continuing to order the release of prisoners who the United States believes are dangerous, but who […]

Cairo: Three Egyptian policemen were killed today by unidentified gunmen in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, northeast of Cairo.  The militants shot randomly at […]

Washington: The influential US Chamber of Commerce today asked the Obama Administration to designate India as a Priority Foreign Country, the worst classification given to […]

London: The prime minister, under growing pressure for not visiting the flood-hit Somerset levels, finally made a trip to the area on Friday where he […]

Beirut: The Syrian government has not decided yet whether to take part in a second round of peace talks tentatively scheduled for next week, a […]

Baghdad: Nine people were killed and at least 28 injured today in a series of explosions near a high-security government area in central Baghdad, security […]

London: British Prime Minister David Cameron has asserted that there was “absolutely no” involvement of the Margaret Thatcher Government in the 1984 Operation Bluestar by […]

Washington: Even Obama listens (to) the speech of NaMo, says the caption of a doctored picture showing the US President watching a Narendra Modi speech […]

Washington: President Barack Obama will visit Saudi Arabia next month and meet with King Abdullah in a bid to reassure the key US ally and […]

New York: Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the leading actors of his generation and an Academy Award winner for “Capote,” has been found dead at […]

MOSCOW:  A student opened fire in a high school in northern Moscow today, killing a police officer and a teacher and holding two dozen other […]

Beijing: China had denied the reports of its plan to set up an Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the South China Sea. Foreign Ministry […]

Washington: US President Barack Obama has said that he used to get up every morning before sunrise for studies during his school days but was […]

London: A woman has been charged with attempted murder after a counter terror operation involving searches at three London addresses. Kunta Patel, 36, from Stratford, […]