Category: World

US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who chose Special Counsel Robert Mueller to lead the Russia interference probe and protected him from political intrusion, announced Monday he was stepping down. In a letter to President Donald Trump, Rosenstein said he would depart on May 11, after more than two turbulent years as the second highest-ranking […]

WASHINGTON: Flight restrictions imposed after India-Pakistan skirmishes in February are affecting hundreds of commercial and cargo flights, says OPSGROUP, which monitors international flight operations. In a report titled “No end in sight for Pakistan airspace restrictions,” the group calculated that the closed airspace was affecting as many as 350 flights daily. OPSGROUP made this calculation […]

J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantastical world of hobbits, elves and orcs have won over fans around the world in the decades since ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings” stories were published. Now the British novelist himself is the subject of a film that looks at his early years and inspirations for his works. X-Men and The Favourite actor […]

Authorities in Sri Lanka on Monday banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law put in place after deadly Easter Sunday attacks by militants. The measures would help security forces to identify people as a hunt for any remaining attackers and their support network continues across the Indian Ocean island, authorities said. But there are […]

Sri Lanka’s incumbent police chief has refused to step down over the Easter Sunday suicide attacks despite President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday naming his successor. Sirisena said on Friday that police chief Pujith Jayasundara had resigned but Jayasundara never sent the letter, officials said, and has remained in his government residence. The president has now […]

Iran’s economy is expected to shrink for the second consecutive year and inflation could reach 40 per cent, an International Monetary Fund senior official said, as the country copes with the impact of tighter sanctions imposed by the United States. Washington, which re-imposed sanctions against Iran’s oil exports last November, this month demanded buyers of Iranian oil […]

Pakistani and United States (US) officials held delegation-level talks on the Afghan peace process in Islamabad on Monday, Radio Pakistan reported. US Special Representative for Afghan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Wells arrived in the capital today for a meeting with the government’s interagency delegation led […]

Indian police said on Sunday they raided the houses of three suspects in connection with a case concerning 15 people who left India to join the militant Islamic State (IS) group, a week after bombings in Sri Lanka that killed more than 250. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said it carried out searches at three […]

WASHINGTON: The United States government has declined to share with India information on the use of F-16 fighter jets by the Pakistan Air Force during a recent dogfight, the Indian media reported on Sunday. “Soon after we were informed by the Indian side about Pakistan using F-16 aircraft on Feb 27, we informed the Indians […]

BAGHDAD: Children born to Yazidi women as a result of rape by the militant Islamic State group fighters will not be permitted to join the community in northern Iraq, the faith’s Supreme Spiritual Council said. The Yazidi community once numbered around 500,000 members in the mountainous Sinjar region of northwest Iraq, but it was ravaged […]