WASHINGTON: The next version of President Donald Trump's travel ban could include new, more tailored restrictions on travelers from additional countries. The Department of Homeland Security has recommended the president impose the new, targeted restrictions on foreign nationals from countries it

Moscow :Appealing for an end to the escalating rhetoric between Washington and Pyongyang, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has likened the war of words between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to a kindergarten fight between children. “We have to calm down the

Sittwe: Twenty homes caught fire and a bomb was detonated near a mosque in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the government said on Friday, the latest unrest in a region that has seen hundreds of thousands of Rohinyga Muslims flee in under a month. The violence comes days after Myanmar‘s civilian leader A

Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said on Friday that Trump is unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country, describing the president as a ‘rogue’ and a ‘gangster fond of playing with fire’. Calling US President Donald Trump “mentally deranged”, Kim said, “Trump will pay

Cox Bazar: Buddhist protesters on Wednesday tried to block an aid shipment for the stranded Muslims in Rakhine State. The Police in Myanmar clashed with the mob who threw petrol bombs on the shipment. The police fired in the air to disperse the protesters. The 300-strong mob in Rakhine’s capital

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Melbourne :A Sikh family in Australia today won a legal battle against a Christian school which refused to enrol their five-year-old son because of his turban. Sidhak Singh Arora was due to start prepratory at Melton Christian College (MCC) in Melbourne’s north-west, this year. But his patka (

Gwangju, (South Korea): Condemned to death twice for spying, Seo Ok-Ryol spent three decades in prison, most of it in solitary confinement. Now aged 90, the only thing he wants to do before he dies is go home — to North Korea. Born in the South, where he still has relatives, then a soldier and sp

Washington: Six young undocumented migrants filed suit in San Francisco federal court against President Donald Trump for committing an “unprecedented violation” of their rights by abruptly ending the so-called DACA immigration program. In the lawsuit on Monday, the undocumented migrants, known as

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: Rohingya Muslims fleeing a Myanmar military offensive arrived in Bangladesh on Monday with fresh accounts of violence and arson as a rights group called for sanctions and an arms embargo to stop what the United Nations has branded ethnic cleansing. The latest wave of viol

Friday, 15 September 2017: Two thousand women in the Sudanese capital Khartoum have taken to the streets riding bicycles, breaking the norms and customs of the conservative society they are part of and promoting eco-friendly healthy living. Launched In February of this year, the initiat

Hamas said on Sunday it had agreed to steps toward resolving a decade-long split with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah, announcing it would dissolve a body seen as a rival government and was ready to hold elections. The statement comes after Hamas leaders held talks with Egyptian officials

PARIS: A London-bound British Airways flight was evacuated at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport on Sunday due to a bomb scare, but was later cleared for take-off. A woman in her 50s has been taken into custody on suspicion of claiming that the Heathrow-bound plane, with 130 passengers onboard, wa

Tehran: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday warned against any “wrong” move by the US which aims at breaching Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal. “They (US administration) have shown wickedness and malicious behaviour with regard to the JCPOA (nuclear deal) and the US regime is truly a v

New York: Using newly calibrated data taken from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have created the first global map of water in the Moon's soil. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, builds on the initial discovery in 2009

Pakistan’s election commission has issued a bailable arrest warrant against cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan for repeatedly failing to appear before it in a contempt case. The Election Commission of Pakistan was hearing a case against 64-year-old Khan filed by a dissident from Pakistan Tehreek

Kuala Lumpur: Twenty-three people, mostly children, were killed Thursday by a blaze that tore through a Malaysian religious school, trapping them in a dormitory with metal grilles barring its windows. Pupils and teachers inside the Islamic study centre in downtown Kuala Lumpur screamed for help a

Pakistan is “reassessing” ties with the US, Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan has said and accused Washington of ignoring the “threats” to his country from India. Khan’s remarks came amidst tension in ties between the US and Pakistan after President Donald Trump accused the country of providing