Category: World

Indian police said they have arrested a Facebook friend of the suspected mastermind of the Easter Sunday bomb attacks in Sri Lanka for spreading the ideology of the militant Islamic State group on social media to recruit young people to participate in a terrorist attack in southern India. A criminal case was filed against Mohammed […]

The United Arab Emirates said Friday that twin attacks on tankers in the Sea of Oman just weeks after four ships were damaged off the UAE marked a “dangerous escalation”. “The attack against the tankers in the Gulf of Oman is a worrying development and a dangerous escalation,” the UAE minister of state for foreign […]

Iran on Friday dismissed as “baseless” US accusations that it carried out twin attacks that left two tankers ablaze in the Gulf of Oman, escalating tensions across the region and sending world oil prices soaring. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned that Washington would defend its forces and allies in the region, and the United States […]

WASHINGTON: The United States wants Pakistan to continue supporting the Afghan peace process but also expects Islamabad to end its allegedly “unacceptable support” to militants, say two key US officials, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Assistant Secretary Alice G. Wells. “Under President Trump, we’ve taken our defence cooperation to new heights … and taken […]

Boris Johnson overwhelmingly won the first round of voting Thursday in the race to replace outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May, with the field of candidates narrowed to seven from 10. The Brexit-backing former foreign minister picked up 114 of the 313 votes cast in a secret ballot of Conservative Party lawmakers in the lower […]

There were no survivors of a military transport plane crash last week in a mountainous area near the border with China, Indian authorities said on Thursday. A team of rescuers airlifted to a place lower on the mountain in Arunachal Pradesh, India’s northeastern-most state, climbed up to the crash site on foot early on Thursday […]

Two oil tankers were hit in suspected attacks in the Gulf of Oman and the crews have been evacuated, shipping firms and industry sources said on Thursday, a month after a similar incident in which four tankers in the region were struck. One of the tankers, the Front Altair, carrying a cargo of petrochemical feedstock, was ablaze […]

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Thursday categorically ruled out talks with US President Donald Trump, despite an unprecedented Japanese mission aimed at defusing tensions between Washington and the Islamic Republic. Iran “has no trust in America and will not in any way repeat the bitter experience of the previous negotiations with America,” Khamenei said […]

The United States (US) on Wednesday named a special envoy to Sudan to find a “peaceful” solution between demonstrators and army generals, as protest leaders demanded “international guarantees” for implementing any agreement reached with the army rulers. Shops and restaurants began to reopen in Sudan’s capital on Wednesday after demonstrators called off a nationwide civil […]

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would be willing to accept information from a foreign country on his opponent in the 2020 election race. “I think you might want to listen … there’s nothing wrong with listening,” Trump said when asked by ABC News what he would do if a country such as Russia or […]