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

Tehran: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday said that violence in Myanmar against the Rohingya Muslims marks the “death of Nobel Peace Prize“, a media report said. Khamenei called Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a “cruel woman” since th

Baghdad [Iraq]: The Iraqi Lawmakers on Tuesday voted against the independence referendum planned by Iraqi Kurdish leaders on September 25 and called on the Prime Minister Haider Abadi to negotiate with them for the unity of the country. A parliamentary majority in Baghdad voted in opposition to t

September 12: The UN high commissioner for human rights on Monday criticised India for the rise of religious intolerance and attacks on freedom of expression, including the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh, as well as its handling of Rohingya refugees. In unusually frank remarks made while addr

WASHINGTON: Expressing concern over Islamabad's lack of commitment to America's objectives in Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan, a US Congressional committee has called for meeting 'benchmarks' in combating terrorism. Appropriations committees in the Senate as well as in the House have propos

Bagram [Afghanistan]: A suicide car bomber targeted a convoy of foreign troops in Afghanistan’s Parwan Province on Monday. At least three civilians, along with an undisclosed number of foreign troops, were injured after a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into a convoy of for

Washington, Sep 11 (PTI) President Donald Trump today said America "cannot be intimidated" and vowed to eliminate terrorist safe havens in any part of the world as he led the nation in mourning the death of nearly 3,000 people in the worst terror attack on the US soil 16 years ago. "The terrorist

Kabul [Afghanistan]: Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister Salahuddin Rabbani will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi on Monday. Rabbani is expected to renew Afghanistan’s demand for greater Indian involvement in the war-ravaged n

Damascus [Syria]: The Syrian Army captured a key oil field of Teym from the Islamic State (IS) in the countryside of Deir al-Zour province. According to reports, the Army has progressively covered over the past 24 hours in reaching Deir al-Zour city from its main desert road. Earlier this week

Extraordinary footage from the Bahamas shows the shoreline receded much farther than normal, exposing what is usually the ocean floor. Twitter user @Kaydi_K from Long Island, Bahamas wrote on Friday: 'I am in disbelief right now... This is Long Island, Bahamas and the ocean water is

Three days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed concern over “extremist violence” in Rakhine but did not mention the persecution of the minority Rohingya Muslim community, Dhaka, in an unusual move on Saturday, asked New Delhi to put pressure on the Myanmar government to take steps for peace

FORT MYERS: Hurricane Irma was set to make landfall in Florida on Sunday with devastating winds and life-threatening storm surges, prompting one of the largest evacuations in US history, after a destructive march up Cuba's northern coast. The storm was a Category 4 hurricane about 70 miles (115 k