JERUSALEM: Israeli warplanes on Monday conducted strikes against nine Hamas "military targets" in the northern Gaza Strip in response to incendiary kites being sent into Israeli territory, the army said. The attacks targeted…
WASHINGTON: Five immigrants died and several others were injured Sunday after a high-speed chase with Border Patrol agents in Texas ended in a crash, local media reported. The crash took place in…
BOGOTA: The former rebel movement FARC called on Colombia's conservative president-elect Ivan Duque to show "good sense" Sunday over his threat to rewrite the 2016 peace agreement. "It is necessary for good…
WASHINGTON: Democratic lawmakers vowed Sunday to end the "evil" separation of migrant children from their parents at the US border, as First Lady Melania Trump made a rare political plea to end…
PESHAWAR: A commander of banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was arrested before boarding a flight for Dubai from Bacha Khan International Airport Peshawar late Sunday night, a Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) spokesman said. FIA…
VALENCIA (Spain): The head of the Red Cross urged European Union member states Sunday to follow Spain's example of welcoming a rejected migrant ship and "put into practice" the humanitarian…
NEW YORK: The North Korean government used an American businessman as an intermediary in trying to set up a secret backchannel with White House adviser Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's…
VALENCIA (Spain): Red Cross volunteers and translators from across Spain turned out to take care of hundreds of migrants unwanted in Italy and Malta from the Aquarius rescue ship when…
ARBIL: Hollywood star Angelina Jolie called today for a larger focus on conflict prevention rather than responding to its repercussions, during a visit to Iraq with the UN refugee agency.…
NAIROBI: Five Kenyan police officers and three reservists were killed Sunday when their vehicle hit a homemade landmine in Wajir, northeast Kenya, a government official said. "We had an attack this afternoon…
KABUL: A suicide attack in restive eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed at least 18 people in a crowd celebrating the Eid holiday, the second assault in as many days to mar an unprecedented…
SANAA: Nearly 5,000 families have been displaced in Yemen's flashpoint Hodeida province this month, the UN said today, as violence escalates in the rebel-held Red Sea region. After nearly a…
BENGHAZI: The self-styled Libyan National Army loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar announced Sunday a "major offensive" to drive rival groups from the country's northeastern oil crescent. Armed groups on Thursday attacked the Ras Lanuf and…
KANO (Nigeria): Suspected Boko Haram jihadists kill ed at least 31 people in a twin suicide bomb attack on a town in northeast Nigeria. Two blasts ripped through the town…
JERUSALEM: Israeli ministers today backed a draft law carrying a jail term of up to 10 years for those who film or photograph soldiers with harmful intent, the justice ministry said. Critics…
VALENCIA: The 630 migrants whose rescue sparked a major migration row in Europe arrived in the Spanish port of Valencia today after a turbulent week that saw Italy and Malta turn…
JALALABAD: A suicide attack in restive eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed at least 10 people and wounded many others, officials said, in the second attack in as many days. The explosion happened…
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron heads to Germany on Tuesday seeking progress with Chancellor Angela Merkel on elusive eurozone reforms, but the deepening EU rifts over migration threaten to dominate an already daunting…
PISODERI: Greek protesters today clashed with riot police, who beat them back with tear gas after a historic Greek-Macedonian deal to end a 27-year name row. A woman was hit…
BOGOTA: Former guerrilla Gustavo Petro believes his presence in Colombia's presidential run-off election today shows the South American country has shed its suspicions of the left, tainted by 50 years of…
ISLAMABAD: Indian occupation forces had martyred 95,017 Kashmiris in Occupied Kashmir in the last three decades from Jan 1989 to May 31, 2018, says All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Jammu…
ATHENS: One of the world's longest - and arguably most arcane - diplomatic disputes could move a step closer to being resolved on Sunday when the foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia…
BOGOTA: Colombians choose a new president today in a landmark election, the first since a peace agreement with FARC rebels which conservative frontrunner Ivan Duque wants to overhaul. Offering a starkly different choice…
KABUL: The Taliban today ordered its fighters in Afghanistan to avoid gatherings of security forces and civilians, a day after a suicide bomber killed 25 people including members of the militant…
