Baghdad: Islamic State (IS) militants kidnapped 78 people Saturday in northern Iraq, including 15 workers from a state oil company in Kirkuk, officials said. IS combatants attacked Kirkuk Friday and briefly occupied the North Oil Company field located 25 km southeast of Kirkuk city before abducting 15 workers, an Iraqi police spokesperson told Efe. Peshmerga […]
Constitutional judge Sergio Mattarella was elected Italy's new president Saturday, in the fourth round of balloting held by the Italian parliament in a joint session
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Saturday strongly condemned Thursday's terrorist attacks in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula
Brussels: North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday that 2014 was a “black year” for European security due to the violent extremism that reached European borders and cities and Russia’s involvement in the Ukrainian crisis. “Our security environment has changed fundamentally. To the South, violent extremism is at our borders, spreading […]
Islamabad: The government of Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province Friday referred a list of terror suspects to the federal government for trial by newly formed militart courts. The 45-page report contains 423 cases of terror suspects for trial by military courts, which also includes the name of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Mullah Fazlullah, Dawn reported. At 116, […]
Islamabad: Another Pakistani convict will be hanged in Punjab province’s Haripur central jail as the prison authorities received his death warrant Friday. Shoaib Sarwar, who was awarded the death sentence on murder charges, is likely to be executed within the next three days, The Nation reported. Sarwar will be the first civilian to be hanged […]
Islamabad: (Xinhua) Pakistan has refused to allow former president Pervez Musharraf to visit Saudi Arabia to offer condolences over the death of Saudi King Abdullah, officials said Thursday. Musharraf, who faces high treason and several other chrges, had sought the government’s permission to go to Saudi Arabia. Musharraf’s name has been placed on the list […]
Washington: The White House posted the highlights of President Barack Obama’s visit to India with several pictures and a light hearted video report anchored by Indian-American Hollywood star Kal Penn. First Lady Michelle Obama @FLOTUS tweeted followers Thursday to “Check out the photos of the President and First Lady at the Republic Day parade in […]
Baghdad: Islamic State (IS) militants Thursday blew up nine luxurious palaces of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in his hometown of Tikrit, a security source said. The militants planted bombs in the palaces and detonated them, the source told Xinhua news agency on condition of anonymity. There were a total of 76 palaces, smaller villas, […]
Moscow: Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has accused the US of having dragged Russia into a new Cold War, and did not rule out the possibility that Washington would risk taking steps toward military confrontation. The US has lost its way in the jungle and is taking us there, Gorbachev told the Russian news agency […]
New York:Most travel bans were lifted and transit services gradually resumed Tuesday morning in New York area after a snowstorm whose impact was far less than expected for most of the area. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo held a morning storm briefing in which he announced the reopening of roadways and public transportation in […]
Baghdad:A militant group including Yazidi and Syrian Kurdish fighters has killed at least 25 Arab civilians on the perimeters of the northwestern Iraqi town of Rabia, on the Syrian border, an official source said. Hosam al-Abar, a member of Niniveh’s Provincial Council, said that a series of barbaric revenge attacks targeted four Arab villages located […]
Jerusalem:The Israeli Air Force struck the Syrian army’s artillery posts late Tuesday in response to an earlier rocket attack from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, the military said Wednesday. “The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) holds the Syrian government accountable for all attacks emanating from its land, and will operate by any means necessary […]
Warsaw, Jan 27 (IANS) The celebrations of the 70th anniversary of KL Auschwitz concentration camp liberation began in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim Tuesday morning. More than a hundred former prisoners and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski together placed flower wreaths under the Execution Wall in the the former Nazi camp, Xinhua news agency reported. […]
Tripoli, Jan 27 (IANS) Several Islamic State (IS) affiliates launched an attack on Libya’s biggest hotel in the capital Tripoli Tuesday, killing three hotel guards and five foreigners, according to security sources. Some witnesses said a bomb was detonated at Corinthia Hotel’s parking lot around 10 a.m., shaking the whole central area of the city. […]
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