UNITED NATIONS: At least 200 million girls and women in 30 countries are estimated to have undergone female circumcision ─ half of them in Egypt, Ethiopia and Indonesia, the United…
ECUADOR: A United Nations panel has ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is being 'arbitrarily detained' in the Ecuadorian embassy in London by the UK and Sweden, according to reports.…
RAWALPINDI: The Director General Military Operations (DGMO) of Pakistan Army called his Indian counterpart on Thursday and offered assistance for the rescue and recovery of Indian Army personnel who went…
PARIS: French high schools are calling for permission to students to smoke on school grounds so that they don’t become targets for extremists. Their logic is that the smoking students…
SANAA: Shelling by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the heavily contested western city of Taiz struck a museum housing rare manuscripts and the possessions of a deceased ruler, activists said on…
AJACCIO: The front window of a Muslim butcher’s shop was sprayed with bullets during the night on the French island of Corsica, where communal tensions have flared in recent months,…
ISLAMABAD: In a bid to restore bilateral confidence after January 20 terrorist attack on Bacha Khan University, Charsadda; the head of Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) is due to…
MUZAFARABAD: All arrangements have been finalized to observe Kashmir solidarity day tomorrow (Friday) to express solidarity with the Kashmiris freedom struggle. Functions, seminars and rallies will be held all over…
CATONSVILLE, MD: US President Barack Obama visited a US mosque of Islamic Society of Baltimore on Wednesday and declared that attacks on Islam were an attack on all faiths in a…
SRINAGAR: Rescuers searched Wednesday for 10 soldiers feared buried in an avalanche in India’s remote Himalayas near Kashmir border, an army spokesman said. The soldiers were hit as they patrolled…
NEW DELHI: A woman was detained on Wednesday for hurling a flower pot at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s convoy in India capital. The incident happened when Modi’s convoy was passing…
WASHINGTON: Seven years into his presidency, Barack Obama will make his first trip to an American mosque on Wednesday, offering a symbolic rebuttal of harsh Republican election rhetoric against Muslims.…
PARIS: North Korea’s recent nuclear test shows a ratification of an international ban on nuclear bomb tests is more urgent than ever, the head of the Vienna-based organization tasked with…
MUMBAI: Thirteen students reported to be on a picnic drowned on Monday after they went swimming off a beach on India's west coast, police said. The tragedy happened at Murud…
KABUL: American and Afghan officials say airstrikes on a remote eastern region of Afghanistan have destroyed a radio station operated by the militant Islamic State (IS) group. An official with…
BIARMINGHAM: Twenty-six years old British Women Tareena Shakil, who took her toddler to join IS in Syria has been sentenced to six years in jail. The judge held…
MADHYA RADESH: Anwar Mev, the former vice-president of the BJP’s minority cell in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas district who was arrested for allegedly slaughtering a cow at his home, may be…
NEW DELHI: Afghan Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Head of the Council of Ministers Abdullah Abdullah met Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi on Monday in New Delhi. Both the…
KABUL: A suicide bomber blew himself up in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday after joining a queue of people waiting to enter an office of the civil order police,…
ADEN: Dozens of Al Qaeda militants reclaimed the town of Azzan in Yemen's Shabwa province on Monday, residents said, exploiting a security vacuum in the country's south as a civil…
NEW DELHI: Afghanistan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah arrived in New Delhi on Sunday on a five-day visit to discuss bilateral issues, according to a statement on Afghan news agency Khamaa…
DALORI: A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among 86 people officials say died…
LONDON: ISIS has threatened the UK with a terror attack so savage it will 'turn babies hair white'. The jihadi thugs say Britain can expect the 'lion's share' of its…
ZURICH: A man known as the world's best chef has been found dead at his home in an apparent suicide on Monday. Benoit Violier, 44, was found dead with self-inflicted…
