Category: World

KIEV: A comedian with no political experience was the top vote-getter in Ukraine’s presidential election on Sunday, an exit poll predicted, but said he fell well short of the absolute majority needed to win outright in the first round. The poll said incumbent President Petro Poroshenko was in a distant second place, closely followed by […]

JERUSALEM: Israel reopened its crossings with the blockaded Gaza Strip on Sunday after having kept them closed for nearly a week following a rare long-distance rocket strikefrom the Palestinian enclave, an official said. The Erez crossing for people and the Kerem Shalom crossing for goods reopened on Sunday morning, a spokeswoman for COGAT, the defence ministry […]

NEW DELHI: Congress president Rahul Gandhi will contest from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala as his second seat, the Congress party announced on Sunday. Meanwhile, his sister Priyanka Gandhi has dropped casual hints that she is prepared to fight the elections from Varanasi if the party so desired. Mr Gandhi was named the candidate […]

BRATISLAVA: Vocal government critic and anti-corruption activist Zuzana Caputova will become Slovakia’s first female president after provisional results showed she won Saturday’s run-off election. Environmental lawyer Caputova got 58.40 per cent of the votes while EU energy commissioner Maros Sefcovic bagged 41.59 per cent, the Slovak Statistics Office said. “Let us look for what connects […]

Arab leaders papered over long-running regional rivalries on Sunday to condemn a US move to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the Syrian Golan Heights and said stability in the Middle East hinged on creating a Palestinian state. Arab leaders, attending a summit in the Tunisian capital, have been grappling with regional splits over Iran’s influence in […]

A rainstorm swept through southern Nepal on Sunday, leaving at least 25 people dead and hundreds more injured, officials said. Nepal’s Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli in a Twitter message said he received a report of 25 people killed and 400 injured. He said security forces have been alerted. Rescue and helicopters with night vision […]

We were already creeped out when James Wan teased a new image for Annabelle Comes Home but that wasn’t enough scary time at all. The third installment of The Conjuring spin-off got its first trailer and please excuse us while we burn every single doll around. So not only is Annabelle a possessed doll that can haunt you to […]

Nine Afghan policemen were killed when Taliban fighters stormed their checkpoints and launched a follow-up ambush in the eastern Afghanistan city of Ghazni, officials said on Saturday. The assault began early on Friday when the Afghan Taliban attacked two adjacent checkpoints, Ghazni police spokesman Ahmad Khan Seerat told AFP. The Afghan Taliban then ambushed a group […]

The US attorney general said Friday that he will release a redacted version by mid-April of the report on the two-year Russia election meddling probe, which had cast a cloud over Donald Trump’s presidency. Attorney General Bill Barr, in a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate judiciary committees, said he was currently […]

US President Donald Trump will host his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in next month, Seoul said on Friday, after the latest summit between Washington and Pyongyang ended in deadlock. Moon has long backed a policy of engagement with nuclear-armed, sanctions-hit Pyongyang and was instrumental in brokering talks between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong […]