Ukraine denied on Monday that it had ever supplied defence technology to North Korea, responding to an article in the New York Times that said North Korea may have purchased rocket engines from Ukrainian factory Yuzhmash. Concern that North Korea is close to achieving its goal of putting th

Beijing: China on Monday warned of a possible trade war with the US if Washington begins investigating alleged Chinese trade practices in bilateral commerce. US President Donald Trump had notified his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that the investigations could begin on Monday, Efe news reported.

Several senior members of Islamic State’s central Asian affiliate were killed in a US air strike in Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday. The attack on Thursday killed Abdul Rahman, identified by the US military as the Kunar provincial emir for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-Khorasan, according to

QUETTA:  A bomb exploded near a crowded market in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Saturday, killing at least 15 people, officials said, the latest attack to hit the restive southwestern province of Baluchistan. Middle East-based ISIS, which has a branch of loosely affiliated fighters in Afghanist

Jakarta: A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit off the Indonesian island Sumatra on Sunday but there was no tsunami risk, seismologists said as panicked residents fled their homes. The quake hit at a depth of 35 kilometres (22 miles) at 10:08 am (0308 GMT) 73 kilometres west of Bengkulu, accordin

Kathmandu: Floods and landslides caused by torrential monsoon rains have killed at least 25 people in the last two days across Nepal, officials said Saturday. Heavy rains have hit more than a dozen districts in the country’s far eastern region as well as some areas in the west since Friday mornin

Long Beach: A Muslim woman has been awarded $85,000 after an officer forcibly removed her hijab, or headscarf, when she was in police custody in Long Beach, California. Kirsty Powell was stopped by police officers with her husband in 2015 as he was driving a lowrider vehicle. She then filed a law

ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities today detained a Russian suspected member of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group for allegedly plotting a drone attack on an American warplane at a US base in southern Turkey. State-run Anadolu news agency said that Renat Bakiev is accused of seeking to stage an at

Islamabad: An aggressive Nawaz Sharif, leading a mammoth rally from Islamabad to his hometown Lahore, on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Supreme Court for ousting him as Pakistan’s Prime Minister. Sharif spewed fire as he addressed large groups of supporters gathered on the rally route

Washington: President Donald Trump issued North Korea with an apocalyptic warning on Tuesday, saying it faced “fire and fury” over its weapons programs, as Pyongyang said it was considering a missile strike near the US territory of Guam. Trump’s comments marked a sharp intensification of Washingt

Beijing: At least 12 people were killed when a 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern China, government sources said Wednesday, but the toll was expected to climb as news trickles out of the remote mountainous region. The earthquake occurred late Tuesday, killing 12 and injuring 175, 28 of

Cairo: The Arab League on Monday condemned the repeated incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by Israelis as an attempt to Judaize Jerusalem. Saed Abu Ali, AL assistant secretary general for Palestine and the occupied Arab territories affairs, said the unprecedented incidents in Jerusalem r

JERUSALEM: Al-Jazeera has denounced Israel’s decision to close the Jerusalem bureau of Qatar’s flagship satellite network, saying that the measure is “undemocratic” and that it will take legal action. Israel’s move follows in the footsteps of four Arab countries that are aligned against Qatar as

Islamabad: Internet services in Pakistan were disrupted as a result of a fault in the India-Middle East-Western Europe submarine cable. This affected the flight services and other activities in the country. The internet services got restored back in Pakistan today, after the interruption caused b

Washington: US President Donald Trump and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-In today agreed that North Korea poses a “grave and growing direct threat” to most of the world as the two leaders in a telephone call welcomed the new sanctions imposed on Pyongyang by the UNSC. The phone call comes

Sydney: Police in the Australian state of New South Wales charged a third man in the terror plot to bring down a plane on Sunday, after last week’s raids saw two men charged with terrorism related offences. Khaled Merhi, 39, was charged with possessing a prohibited weapon but police have yet to s

Raja Ram: The rape of a teenage girl in revenge for a crime committed by her brother has left residents of Raja Ram in central Pakistan shaken and questioning a deeply entrenched system of village justice. In July, a council of village elders ordered the rape of the 16-year-old victim after her b

Gaza: Navy of Israel opened fire at the Palestinian fisherman who was on fishing boats off al-Sudaniya shore, Gaza Strip today morning. According to the news published WAFA Palestinian News and Info Agency, due to the attack, boats got damaged. However, no casualties were reported as fishermen es